A box office is a place where tickets A ticket is a voucher to indicate that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, movie theater, amusement park, zoo, museum, concert, or other attraction, or permission to travel on a vehicle such as an airliner, train, bus, or boat, typically because one has paid the fare. Also a ticket may be free, and serve as a are sold to the public for admission to a venue. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop Countertop (also counter top, countertopping, counter, benchtop, or worktop) usually refers to a horizontal worksurface in kitchens or other food preparation areas, bathrooms or lavatories, and workrooms in general. It is frequently installed upon and supported by cabinets. The surface is positioned at an ergonomic height for the user and the, through an unblocked hole through a wall, or at a wicket A wicket is the place where a customer performs a transaction with a Customer service representative. This British term is not commonly used in North America and many other places.
By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors and other film personnel, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry or theatre Theatre is a branch of the performing arts. While any performance may be considered theatre, as a performing art, it focuses almost exclusively on live performers creating a self contained drama. A performance qualifies as dramatic by creating a representational illusion. By this broad definition, theatre had existed since the dawn of man, as a show, receives. The term can also mean factors which may influence this amount, as in the phrases "good box office" and "bad box office".[1]
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Box office business can be measured in terms of the number of people who see it or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue In business, revenue is income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. In many countries, such as the United Kingdom, revenue is referred to as turnover. Some companies receive revenue from interest, dividends or royalties paid to them by other companies. Revenue may). The projection and analysis of these earnings is very important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.
Some complain that industry focus on profit has diminished the attention given to film as an art form Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses, emotions, and/or intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a. However, analysis of the financial success of films is very influential for the production and funding of future works.
There are numerous websites A website [citation needed] is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed relative to a common Uniform Resource Locator (URL), often consisting of only the domain name, or the IP address, and the root path ('/') in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, that monitor box-office receipts, such as ShowBIZ Data and Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. Brandon Gray started the site in August 1998 and claims to now receive over two million monthly visitors. For a list of films which are major box-office hits, see List of highest-grossing films 2009 has the most films on the list with seven, next stands 2007 with six. Eighty percent of the films in the top 50 were released after 2000, while no film prior to 1977 appears in the list because ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends are not considered. A North-America-only ticket price inflation-adjusted list can.
On average, the movie's distributor A film distributor or distribbery is an independent company, a subsidiary company or occasionally an individual, which acts as the final agent between a film production company or some intermediary agent, and a film exhibitor, to the end of securing placement of the producer's film on the exhibitor's screen. In the film business, the term " receives more than half of the revenue, with the remainder kept by the movie theater Most movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The movie is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium. Some movie theaters are now equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks. Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a "house allowance" or "house nut". It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger.[2][3]
Related film industry terminology
The following is film industry specific terminology as defined by Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. Brandon Gray started the site in August 1998 and claims to now receive over two million monthly visitors.[4] For movies released in North America, box office figures are usually divided between domestic, meaning U.S. and Canada, and foreign which includes all other countries. Weekly box office figures are taken to be from Friday through Thursday to allow for the fact that most movies are released on a Friday. A large component of this is the weekend box office, defined as the box office receipts from Friday through Sunday. In particular, the weekend box office for the initial week of release, or opening weekend, is often widely reported. (See List of biggest opening weekends What is notable about this list is that not many films released before the mid-to-late 1990s are on it. This is mainly because movies used to have small opening weekends yet would go on to become blockbusters, whereas today, filmgoers tend to want to see the film when it first comes out, and for the most part, begin to lose interest in it after.)
Theaters is the number of theaters in which the movie is showing. Since a single theater may show a movie on multiple screens, the total number of screens is used as another measure. The theaters measure is used to determine whether at movie is in wide release Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally . Specifically, a movie is considered to be in wide release when it is on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada, meaning at least 600 theaters, or limited release which is less than 600 theaters. Occasionally, a movie may achieve wide release after an initial limited release; Little Miss Sunshine is an example of this.
Colloquialism
The term box office likely refers to the office where "boxes", private seating areas, were sold at theatres and its usage derives back to the 1780s.[citation needed] Theatres today still have boxes, and some cinemas and theatres refer to the best seats as box seats.
The term also possibly originates from Shakespearean times, in which boxes would be used to collect a fee. However, due to thieves, the boxes would only contain a small amount of money, and the full boxes would be placed in an office, collectively called a "Box Office".[citation needed]
See also
- Box office bomb The phrase box office bomb refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue retained by the movie studio.[citation needed] This should not be confused with Hollywood accounting when official figures show large losses, yet the movie is a financial success
- Lists of box office number-one films
- List of highest-grossing films 2009 has the most films on the list with seven, next stands 2007 with six. Eighty percent of the films in the top 50 were released after 2000, while no film prior to 1977 appears in the list because ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends are not considered. A North-America-only ticket price inflation-adjusted list can
- List of biggest box office bombs
- List of biggest opening weekends What is notable about this list is that not many films released before the mid-to-late 1990s are on it. This is mainly because movies used to have small opening weekends yet would go on to become blockbusters, whereas today, filmgoers tend to want to see the film when it first comes out, and for the most part, begin to lose interest in it after
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References
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- ^ "Office Tracking by Time". Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. Brandon Gray started the site in August 1998 and claims to now receive over two million monthly visitors. IMDb.com, Inc The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/boxoffice.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
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