12 Facts About Box office

Box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

The distributor's share of the box office gross is often referred to as the "distributor rentals", especially for box office reporting of older films.

Name box office was used at the Globe Theatre, owned by William Shakespeare, and in wider Elizabethan theatre.

Term box office was being widely used from at least 1786, deriving from the office from which theatre boxes were being sold.

The term box office was being used to describe total sales from at least 1904.

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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.

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.

Data for older movies is often incomplete due to the way box office reporting evolved, especially in the U S, and the availability of information prior to the introduction of the internet.

Murphy started to publish Art Murphy's Box Office Register annually from 1984 detailing U S box office grosses.

In 1994, Variety published their first annual global box office chart showing the top 100 grossing films internationally for the prior year.

Box office reporting paused for the first time since its inception on March 19,2020, as nearly all theaters nationwide were closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.