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I was merely implying that due to an unfavorable USD/JPY exchange rate AOU couldn't afford to sell half the amount of tickets Avengers sold in 2012 to ensure a 22M-ish finish in Japan that would put it past 1.4B WW. Therefore that it wasn't like some were saying a "done deal" based on that parameter alone.
I wasn't using macro-economic analysis to predict what it could do in Japan.
Now AOU opened to 6.6M over the week end, the biggest opening for a Hollywood live action film since Harry Potter 7-2, and the biggest opening week end for a superhero film only behind Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (in tickets sold), so it's likely to surpass the first film gross in local currency. Making 1.4B WW a done deal indeed.
Not exactly sure what you're saying, but, hey, that's okay. There are what are known as "interactions" among variables. Any variable is made up of a host of other variables and the interactions (dependencies) between them can be strong or weak. Exchange rates are a result of various factors. I'm not an economist, but I'd bet that economic health is a factor in exchange rates (could be wrong here). If that's the case, it's easy to get pulled into the macro-economic world without even knowing it.
If you're interested, I wrote a real page turner of a paper on the mathematical elimination of extraneous variables from multiple regression formulas and if anyone.....wants.....to.....read.....

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