Editing Box office (section)

====Rise of Hollywood====
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' started reporting box office results by theatre on March 3, 1922, to give exhibitors around the country information on a film's performance on Broadway, which was often where first run showings of a film were held. In addition to New York City, they also endeavoured to include all of the key cities in the U.S. in future and initially also reported results for 10 other cities including Chicago and Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety66-1922-03#page/n46/mode/1up|title=Business on Broadway Figures For Exhibitors' Information|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 3, 1922|page=47|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

In 1929, the first issue of ''[[The Motion Picture Almanac]]'' was released and included a list of the top 104 grossing films for the past year.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturealm1929exhi|title=The Motion Picture Almanac 1929|last=Exhibitors Herald-World|date=1929|publisher=New York, The Quigley Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library}}</ref> In 1932, ''Variety'' published the studios' top-grossing films of the year and has maintained this tradition annually since.<ref name="Variety1932">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety105-1932-01#page/n0/mode/1up|title=Six Best Money Stars|date=January 5, 1932|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=1|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> In 1937, ''[[BoxOffice (magazine)|BoxOffice]]'' magazine]began publishing box office reports.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/01/boxoffice-magazine-stops-publishing-film-reviews-128559/|title=''Boxoffice'' Magazine Stops Publishing Film Reviews|last1=Singer|first1=Matt|date=2013-01-17|website=IndieWire|language=en|access-date=2019-05-20|archive-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102185500/https://www.indiewire.com/2013/01/boxoffice-magazine-stops-publishing-film-reviews-128559/|url-status=live}}</ref> Beginning in the 1930s, BoxOffice magazine published a Barometer issue in January, which reported the performance of movies for the year expressed as percentages.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/boxofficebaromet00boxo_4#page/n0/mode/1up|title=BoxOffice Barometer A Review of 1947 A Preview of 1948|access-date=April 23, 2018|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2019}}