Little Mermaid 1989 Budget: 40million * not adjusted Box Office Worldwide: $211,343,479 (1989) Not Adjusted (http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=littlemermaid.htm)
The Princess and the Frog Budget: 105million * not adjusted Box office Worldwide: $267,045,765 (2009)Not Adjusted
Adjusted Numbers to 2012: http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm Little Mermaid 2012 Adjusted Budget: 74,315,806.44 Million Earnings Worldwide Boxoffice: 390,763,237.15 Million
The Princess and the Frog 2012 Adjusted Budget: 112,075,924.09 Million Earnings Worldwide Boxoffice: 285,041,913.21 Million
The Reality is - Disney Expected higher numbers from the Princess and the Frog. Not because it only came out in a more advanced 2D time, but because the added money going into production - it became one of the most expensive cell designed movies ever.
74 vs 112 million in budget and 285 vs 390 million in earnings. Both did amazingly well. Inflation adjusted The Little mermaid blew it out of the water by about 100 million, after you factor budget differences. Also Disney spent quite allot on Ads for Princess and the Frog.
Now - that being said - it was a great movie. As a mathematician I dislike seeing facts being misused as they were above by both OP's. I do however appreciate Zelda-Queen's notes on other factual innacuracies. It is important to note that the LifeTime Worldwide Box office numbers only include the showings of the movies in theaters. Both of them have had limited rereleases since the original showings, and calculating that percentages in the CPI would almost be impossible. However the primacy of the numbers (285 million and 390 million) come from the original years of the showing, as can be checked against Disneys Records of Fiscal year FY1989 and FY2010, publicly available for HS Shareholders.
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Date: 2012-10-06 06:05 pm (UTC)Little Mermaid 1989
Budget: 40million * not adjusted
Box Office Worldwide: $211,343,479 (1989) Not Adjusted
(http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=littlemermaid.htm)
The Princess and the Frog
Budget: 105million * not adjusted
Box office Worldwide: $267,045,765 (2009)Not Adjusted
Adjusted Numbers to 2012:
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Little Mermaid 2012 Adjusted
Budget: 74,315,806.44 Million
Earnings Worldwide Boxoffice: 390,763,237.15 Million
The Princess and the Frog 2012 Adjusted
Budget: 112,075,924.09 Million
Earnings Worldwide Boxoffice: 285,041,913.21 Million
The Reality is - Disney Expected higher numbers from the Princess and the Frog. Not because it only came out in a more advanced 2D time, but because the added money going into production - it became one of the most expensive cell designed movies ever.
74 vs 112 million in budget and 285 vs 390 million in earnings.
Both did amazingly well. Inflation adjusted The Little mermaid blew it out of the water by about 100 million, after you factor budget differences. Also Disney spent quite allot on Ads for Princess and the Frog.
Now - that being said - it was a great movie. As a mathematician I dislike seeing facts being misused as they were above by both OP's. I do however appreciate Zelda-Queen's notes on other factual innacuracies. It is important to note that the LifeTime Worldwide Box office numbers only include the showings of the movies in theaters. Both of them have had limited rereleases since the original showings, and calculating that percentages in the CPI would almost be impossible. However the primacy of the numbers (285 million and 390 million) come from the original years of the showing, as can be checked against Disneys Records of Fiscal year FY1989 and FY2010, publicly available for HS Shareholders.
Worldwide Box office Numbers:
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=princessandthefrog.htm
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=littlemermaid.htm
Above Numbers are Checked against:
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
For those who aren't good with math: (a calculator to do it yourself) http://cpi.memphiscapital.com/
Thanks for a good article ZeldaQueen!