Movie Box Office Mojo (2024)

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Is Box Office Mojo accurate? ›

In some cases, Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro is able to obtain the actual number of tickets sold. That figure is then used to calculate adjustments (aside from its reported gross). Usually this is the case with older movies, especially those released in the 1930s and 1940s.

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon.

How can I find box office information for a movie? To find the box office data for a film, go to the title page and scroll to the section titled "Box Office". You can find additional box office information by going to the IMDbPro title page.

The Box Office Mojo is a website based company which tracks the box office revenues in systematic and algorithmic style. The network was begun in 1999 and was purchased by Amazon.com in July 2008 by Amazon subsidiary Internet Movie Database.

With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film's earnings.

USD values in various Box Office Mojo stats are given in nominal terms. The older a film's release, the more its gross revenues are diluted by failing to adjust for inflation.

1. Titanic. A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)

In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box-office bomb (or box-office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it.

A box-office bomb, box-office flop, box-office failure, or box-office disaster is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run.

How are box office sales calculated? ›

Gross box office = total earning of movie by selling tickets. Net box office = gross box office collection minus entertainment tax.

Based on the budget that Edwards provided, The Creator's box office needed to hit $160 million to be considered a success. It is usually estimated that a movie needs to make two or three times its budget to become profitable in Hollywood after marketing costs, splitting revenue with theaters, and more are factored in.