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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8812334" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Tens of millions.... when? That's always the kicker, isn't it. Precise, day by day, numbers are hard to get for movies, and Netflix never tells everything. But, we can use this site to do some rough estimates. <a href="https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Return-of-the-King-The#tab=box-office" target="_blank">https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Return-of-the-King-The#tab=box-office</a>Now, according to this, on the day of release the Return of the King was shown in 3,703 movie theaters around the country. And the Theaters reported about $19,614 per theater in the first week. Cost of a Theater ticket was, what, about 9 dollars back then? I'll round to 10 just in case they included concession sales in those numbers, which gets us about 1,961 people per theater. And I'll go ahead and round that up to 2,000 people. Feels about right for a massive release right? That would be about 100 showings per theater per week. Using those numbers, it would be a safe bet to say that in the first week, 7.4 million people watched Return of the King. This site: <a href="https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/avatar-last-airbender-neflix-popular" target="_blank">https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/avatar-last-airbender-neflix-popular</a>Tells us that 5.6 million people watched the finale of Avatar the Last Airbender. On the same day. During the same HOUR. Avatar in a single hour, nearly matched the numbers for Return of the King in a week. Then, when Avatar was put on Netflix, it was almost immediately the most popular kids show on Netflix. Now, that's hard to quantify, Netflix doesn't release its data, but Netflix has 70 million subscribers, so even if we are only looking at 15% of their user base (which is incredibly low for "the single most popular") then we are looking at.... 10.5 million people. So, yeah, your property has tens of millions of fans. So does ONE of mine. And the thing about "niche" is that every "niche" show or movie is yet another one on the pile. Maybe your one single franchise is more popular than one of the shows I've listed, but is it really accurate to imagine it is more popular than ALL of the shows I've listed combined? Tolkien =/= Fantasy. There is more to the genre than just that one guy and his four books. But Tolkien is pretty much the only source for halflings.</blockquote>

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