With the exception of Spain and Italy, the two countries hit the worst by the economic downturn, 2011 was a record high year for gross box office movie ticket sales despite the increasing number of legal streaming and rental VOD offers online.

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First, we halved the box office of each film (to approximate the studio's share of ticket sales) and added those numbers to calculate gross box office.

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