Editing Box office (section)

==Distributor rentals==
Box-office figures are reported in the form of either gross receipts or distributor rentals, the latter being especially true of older films. Commonly mistaken for [[home video]] revenue, the rentals are the distributor's share of the film's theatrical revenue i.e. the box office gross less the exhibitor's cut.<ref name="Cones41">{{cite book |last=Cones |first=John W. |title=The feature film distribution deal: a critical analysis of the single most important film industry agreement |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-8093-2082-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EoeJ7VmwnDIC&pg=PA41 41] |quote=Distributor rentals: It is also important to know and recognize the difference between the distributor's gross receipts and the gross rentals. The term "rentals" refers to the aggregate amount of the film distributor's share of monies paid at theatre box offices computed on the basis of negotiated agreements between the distributor and the exhibitor. Note that gross receipts refers to amounts actually received and from all markets and media, whereas gross rentals refers to amounts earned from theatrical exhibition only, regardless of whether received by the distributor. Thus, gross receipts is the much broader term and includes distributor rentals. The issue of film rentals (i.e., what percentage of a film's box office gross comes back to the distributor) is of key importance...More current numbers suggest that distributor rentals for the major studio/distributor released films average in the neighborhood of 43% of box office gross. Again, however, such an average is based on widely divergent distributor rental ratios on individual films.}}</ref><ref name="Marich">{{cite book |last=Marich |first=Robert |title=Marketing to moviegoers: a handbook of strategies used by major studios and independents |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |edition=2 |year=2009 |orig-date=1st. pub. [[Focal Press]]:2005 |isbn=978-0-8093-2884-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_6USFaYxyeUC&pg=PA252 252]<!--If page link dies, try [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f1SQIZOffhoC&pg=pa232 232]--> |quote=Rentals are the distributors' share of the box office gross and typically set by a complex, two-part contract.}}</ref> Historically, the rental price averaged at 30–40% when the distributors owned the theater chains, equating to just over a third of the gross being paid to the distributor of the film.<ref name="Balio">{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |title=The American film industry |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-299-09874-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=OBpDf_uUp30C&pg=PA296 296] |quote=Film Rentals as Percent of Volume of Business (1939): 36.4}}</ref> {{As of|1997}}, rental fees varied greatly, depending on a number of factors, with films from the major studios averaging 43% of gross receipts.<ref name="Cones41"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Annual rentals % of box office gross receipts
! Year
! United States<ref name="Vogel">{{cite book |last1=Vogel |first1=Harold L. |chapter=Table 3.4. Motion picture theater industry statistics, 1965-2009 |title=Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis |date=2010 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-139-49732-9 |pages=88–9 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfyFFCyRvX0C&pg=PA88 |access-date=2020-07-08 |archive-date=2023-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118133403/https://books.google.com/books?id=BfyFFCyRvX0C&pg=PA88 |url-status=live }}</ref>
! [[List of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada|United States and Canada]]<ref name="Vogel"/>
! [[List of highest-grossing films in Japan|Japan]]<ref name="Statistics">{{cite web |title=Statistics of Film Industry in Japan (Year 1955–1999) |url=http://www.eiren.org/statistics_e/index.html |website=Eiren |publisher=[[:ja:日本映画製作者連盟|Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan]] |access-date=17 February 2019 |archive-date=5 May 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050505192057/http://www.eiren.org/statistics_e/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
!1939
|36.4%<ref name="Balio"/>
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
!1955
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->31916/<!--gross-->54657*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1956
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->34837/<!--gross-->61899*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1957
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->37588/<!--gross-->68153*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1958
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->39406/<!--gross-->72346*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1959
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->39123/<!--gross-->71141*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1960
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->39731/<!--gross-->72798*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1961
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->38869/<!--gross-->73003*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1962
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->38096/<!--gross-->75983*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1963
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->36715/<!--gross-->77734*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1964
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->34324/<!--gross-->76937*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1965
|27.6%
|29.8%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->33758/<!--gross-->75506*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1966
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->31992/<!--gross-->75750*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1967
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->32312/<!--gross-->78943*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1968
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->32963/<!--gross-->82026*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1969
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->33423/<!--gross-->83805*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1970
|26.7%
|28.6%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->31112/<!--gross-->82488*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1971
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->30413/<!--gross-->79280*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1972
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->28719/<!--gross-->76971*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1973
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->35212/<!--gross-->92682*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1974
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->44484/<!--gross-->117107*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1975
|29.7%
|32.7%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->51536/<!--gross-->130750*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1976
|28.3%
|31.3%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->56807/<!--gross-->145709*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1977
|36.6%
|39.4%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->60769/<!--gross-->152373*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1978
|42.4%
|45.3%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->66113/<!--gross-->160509*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1979
|37.8%
|40.5%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->61613/<!--gross-->158177*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1980
|43.0%
|46.4%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->63454/<!--gross-->165918*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1981
|39.2%
|42.2%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->61820/<!--gross-->163259*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1982
|38.9%
|41.8%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->65268/<!--gross-->169522*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1983
|34.5%
|37.0%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->78773/<!--gross-->186300*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1984
|32.6%
|35.3%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->68206/<!--gross-->172202*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1985
|29.6%
|31.6%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->69375/<!--gross-->173438*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1986
|30.7%
|33.1%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->72636/<!--gross-->179428*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1987
|29.3%
|31.5%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->63736/<!--gross-->161155*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1988
|31.7%
|34.5%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->65525/<!--gross-->161921*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1989
|35.4%
|38.4%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->67155/<!--gross-->166681*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1990
|36.4%
|39.4%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->71082/<!--gross-->171910*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1991
|38.5%
|41.3%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->66534/<!--gross-->163378*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1992
|41.2%
|43.8%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->62361/<!--gross-->152000*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}.0%
|-
!1993
|38.8%
|41.3%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->71811/<!--gross-->163700*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1994
|37.8%
|40.2%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->64152/<!--gross-->153590*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1995
|43.6%
|45.6%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->68473/<!--gross-->157865*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1996
|40.9%
|43.4%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->63338/<!--gross-->148870*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1997
|41.5%
|44.2%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->78522/<!--gross-->177197*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1998
|40.1%
|42.6%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->87360/<!--gross-->193499*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!1999
|41.9%
|44.7%
|{{#expr:<!--rental-->82794/<!--gross-->182835*<!--percent-->100 round 1}}%
|-
!2000
|37.2%
|39.7%
|{{N/A}}
|}