Box Office Mojo adjusts box office earning to account for inflation (though not 3-D price hikes).
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We based our list on global box office numbers from Box Office Mojo as of August 17th.
The other thing I noticed, only after I had read the letter through, was the absence of a post-office box address.
But can international box office influence domestic box office?
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If you're unsure whether an ad is sincere, you can protect your identity when responding by providing a resume with a post-office box address instead of your home address, says Ms. Dixon.
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
"I was trying to get information from him to admit why he did it and what his motives were, " said Spiro, who had the other letters sent to a post office box.
Taxpayers who reported and paid tax on all their taxable income but did not file FBARs, should not participate in the OVDI but should merely file the delinquent FBARs with the Department of Treasury, Post Office Box 32621, Detroit, MI 48232-0621 (and attach a statement explaining why the reports are filed late).
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We used numbers from Box Office Mojo for worldwide box office returns and estimated production budgets.
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In putting together the list, our nominating process, so to speak, was to look at all films released in calendar year 2008 culled from box-office reporting service Box Office Mojo.
According to Box Office Mojo, the winter box office was down 39% from 2012.
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We used Box Office Mojo to look at the box office returns for 675 summer releases going back to 2006 to create our list.
So Harry Potter has been a boon for the overall box office and anything that makes the box office numbers look better is good for Hollywood.
Box office grosses and budget estimates are from Box Office Mojo.
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You can check out this chart at Box Office Mojo to see how slowly the box office tapered off for the film.
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Year to date, the box office is off 24%, according to Box Office Mojo.
According to Box Office Mojo, "Avatar's" foreign box office accounted for 73 percent of its global take.
Despite an expected 55% drop in box office, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is expected to top the box office for the second weekend in a row, according to Exhibitor Relations.
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This is not only due to higher box office sales but also due to higher content licensing revenues which generally depend on box office sales.
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We used data from Box Office Mojo to see which films earned the smallest percentage of their budgets at the box office.
We then divided box office by budget to find out what percentage of the budget each film has earned at the box office.
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The film, from News Corp. studio Twentieth Century Fox, failed to top the box office last weekend, losing out to Clash of the Titans, which has proved resilient at the box office.
To compile our list, we looked at worldwide theatrical grosses for the top 200 films to date of 2010 and their estimated budgets (numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo) to determine what percentage of a film's budget was earned back at the box office.
First, we halved the box office of each film (to approximate the studio's share of ticket sales) and added those numbers to calculate gross box office.
One thing that allows HBO to offset this cost is that most of its programming, on an hourly basis, is movies (remember that HBO stands for Home Box Office), the rights to which are relatively less expensive than producing original content, as much of the production cost of these films has been absorbed by box office sales.
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And then our domestic stock office, the domestic box office, a little better, a little worse.
Aside from the increase in box-office share allowed for foreign producers, the agreement increased the number of foreign films allowed to play in China and share in box office revenue from 20 to 34.
In addition to disappointing box office turnout, the Redford-directed flick earned largely negative reviews.
This weekend's box office will go part of the way toward answering that question.
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