Do DVD and Blu-Ray sales count toward how much money a movie has made or is it just box office sales?

For example, The Dark Knight has made just over $1 billion. Does that include just the domestic+international box office money from tickets or DVD and Blu-Ray sales as well?





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Usually just box office. Top DVD/Blu-Ray sellers might get press on their numbers but most movie numbers are box office





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Hello Capt. Kirk,

The answer to your question is really yes and no.
To give you more information, I will use the example of "The Dark Knight" that you used.

The Dark Knight did make over $1 billion as many news outlets reported. This figure represents worldwide box office sales, and does not include DVD and Blu-Ray sales.

Of course a how much a movie make is very much influenced by how much money a movie makes outside of the box office. Since a movie make money from Movie Rentals, Movie Purchases (DVD's), toys (The Joker/Batman action figure), and many other things as well.

For example, of the $1 billion The Dark Knight grossed at the box office over $530 million of it was from North America, the rest was international. When the movie was released to DVD and Bluray it made over $250 million from sales of the DVD's.

I hope this answers you question(s). It's basically a answer in a nutshell, since there is even more to it.





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That counts as everything. But when you see Star Trek's #'s that is just ticket sales. Because, well, its not on dvd yet.

No just how much money they make while its in movie theaters.

yes all the income earned is added and calculated