Editing Box office (section)

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Total ticket sales were being termed ''box office'' from at least 1904.<ref name="oetyd">[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=box+office box office] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509211847/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=box+office |date=2020-05-09 }} in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001</ref>

The following is film industry specific terminology used by box office reporters such as ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' and [[Box Office Mojo]].<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/boxoffice.htm |title=Office Tracking by Time |access-date=2010-01-12 |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |archive-date=2010-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815011543/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/boxoffice.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> For films released in North America, box office figures are usually divided between domestic, meaning the United States and Canada, and foreign which includes all other countries. Weekly box office figures are now normally taken to be from Friday through Thursday to allow for the fact that most films are officially released in the United States on a Friday. With ''Variety'' being published for many years every Wednesday, most weekly box office figures they reported from the 1920s to the 1990s were for the week from Thursday to Wednesday. A large component of the weekly gross is the weekend box office. Historically, this was reported as the box office receipts around Friday through Sunday plus any public holidays close to the weekend, such as a 4-day [[Memorial Day]] weekend, however, with the increased regularity of reporting of box office figures, a comparable 3-day figure for the Friday to Sunday is now also used. In particular, the weekend box office for the initial week of release, or opening weekend, is often widely reported. (See [[List of highest-grossing openings for films]].)

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 or engagements is used as another measure. The theaters measure is used to classify whether a film is in [[wide release]], meaning at least 600 theaters, or [[limited release]] which is less than 600 theaters. Occasionally, a film may achieve wide release after an initial limited release; ''[[Little Miss Sunshine]]'' is an example of this.

Gross refers to gross earnings. On average, the movie's distributor receives a little more than half of the final gross (often referred to as the rentals) with the remainder going to the exhibitor (i.e., movie theater).

Multiple is the ratio of a film's total gross to that of the opening weekend. A film that earns $20 million on its opening weekend and finishes with $80 million has a multiple of 4. From 2004 to 2014, films viewers graded as A+ on [[CinemaScore]] had a 4.8 multiple, while films graded as F had a 2.2 multiple.<ref name="busch20140809">{{cite news | url=https://deadline.com/2014/08/b-grade-for-turtles-what-cinemascores-mean-and-why-exit-polling-matters-816538/ | title=B Grade For 'Turtles': What CinemaScores Mean And Why Exit Polling Matters | website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] | date=August 9, 2014 | access-date=August 20, 2014 | author=Busch, Anita | archive-date=October 9, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009080339/https://deadline.com/2014/08/b-grade-for-turtles-what-cinemascores-mean-and-why-exit-polling-matters-816538/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

Admissions refers to the number of tickets sold at the box office. In countries such as France, box office reporting was historically reported in terms of admissions, with rules regulated by the government and fines issued if exhibitors failed to report the data.<ref name=crunched>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Daily Variety]]|date=January 4, 1994|page=39|last=Klady|first=Leonard|title=Feeling crunched by B.O. number crunchers}}</ref> Other countries which historically reported box office figures in terms of admissions include European countries such as Germany, Italy, and Spain, the [[Soviet Union]], and South Korea. Box Office Mojo estimates the North American ticket sales by dividing the domestic box office gross by the [[#Average ticket price|average ticket price]] (ATP) of a given year, a method that Box Office India uses to estimate Indian footfalls (ticket sales). See ''[[List of films by box office admissions]]'' for the films with the highest known estimated ticket sales.

===Box office lists===
For lists of films which are major box-office hits, see ''[[List of highest-grossing films]]'', ''[[List of films by box office admissions]]'' and ''[[Lists of highest-grossing films]]''. Films that are considered to have been very unsuccessful at the box office are called [[box-office bomb]]s or box office flops. For a list of these films, see ''[[List of biggest box-office bombs]]''.

'''<big>Inflation Adjustment</big>''' 

There are two main methods of box office inflation. First, used by boxofficemojo and comscore, To adjust it for inflation (or see what it might have made in the past), the estimated number of tickets sold is multiplied by the average ticket price of the selected year.

Second, Using CPI of respective country. 

Both methods have some flaws. I first, content of movies change over time, then number of ticket sold may increase or decreas. In second, ATP of movies increased exponentially in 1990s but CPI increased slower than ATP.

A third method is also available, In which we can use APT of movies as CPI and adjust box office.