It's crazy how much variance there is in ticket pricing. Waffle mentioned a $5.50 ticket price which is a matinee here and my $8.00 full price ticket is a matinee in N.Y. or L.A. You'd think it would be more standard.
That also brings me to the point that dollars/currency is not the right way to measure a movie's success. I read an article that mentioned ticket sales were at like 1.4B last year. That is nothing compared to the 4B+ tickets that were sold in the 30s and 40s :O