We estimate that content licensing revenues amount to about 90% of gross box office sales.
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Foreign box office sales have become more important than ever to big studios.
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In 2008, box office sales in China were a mere 4.8 billion yuan.
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Industry players said box office sales in China had the potential to grow even more if Beijing eased the restrictions further.
We picked the teams and then added up the worldwide box-office sales for all of the films each pairing appeared in together.
Growth in Windows Phone sales may not change the stock price much, which is still driven mainly by Windows and Office sales.
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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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Potential success of the series goes beyond pure box office sales.
If past animated films are any indication Dorothy of Oz has the potential to generate toy and merchandise revenues many multiples larger than its box office sales.
News Corp could adopt a strategy of launching films in this category, similar to what Disney has done using Pixar, improving its share in both box office sales and the DVD market.
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With box office sales on track to be the highest ever this year but DVD sales continuing their downward trajectory, studios are much more worried about enhancing what they earn from home viewing than from the theaters.
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Seeing as how the clip has hit the internet mere days before the premiere, we doubt it will have a negative effect on box office sales come Friday -- unless, of course, those first 36 minutes are irrevocably horrible.
First, the success of this popular remake where the difference is essentially centered around the introduction of 3D technology, which highlights the importance of 3D movies in driving box office sales for media companies including Disney, Time Warner, News Corp and Viacom.
This portfolio can be used to embrace all manner of investments such as Bonds, Commodities, Equity, Foreign Exchange, Loans and Options plus less transparent assets such as Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, Film Box Office Sales Human Resources, Real Estate, Structured Products, Trade Marks, Patent and Marketing Rights.
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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Independent software vendors that sell Microsoft products now can earn commissions of as much as 23% on the first year of Office 365 sales to some companies, topping Google Apps' commission of 20%.
"I think that office supply sales will see growth ahead of the consensus median retail industry, especially given that we will get positive job prints in early 2010, which means more post-it notes and pens, " he says.
To make things fair, we chose regularly replenished items that all three retailers sell, and we didn't include sale items. (While there are back-to-school sales galore right now, January is prime time for office-supply sales.) To bake in the effect of bulk purchasing, we chose 10 of the largest package of each item.
Avocado farmers have formed an export company and set up a sales office in Paris.
"Banks don't want to run a sales office or mow lawns, " he says.
Another good omen for the Tokyo Stock Exchange- listed firm: Meitec's 11 directors and 51 sales office heads recently received stock options.
Some of those jobs will go to Great Britain or Ireland, where Workday plans to open its first sales office outside North America.
Then she flew to every Sterling sales office to grill the salespeople about their deals in the pipeline--and prod them to sell more XcelleNet products.
This year, Meyer added other social mediums, including Twitter and Pinterest, plus an extra chance to win to people who visited a Pulte sales office.
But Lebret, 45, whose U.S. tour began seven years ago and has bracketed a spell opening the Far East sales office in Tokyo, is one example of Mouton's worldliness.
Manchester United recently opened a sales office in Hong Kong to cater to followers in Asia, which it says accounts for about 325 million of the team's 659 million fans.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
To create some buzz, he created a 24-hour-a-day sales office that remained open for months, he said, so that every potential buyer could get an appointment the same day they wanted one.
My mind defaulted to circus images of animals (me, most notably) jumping through hoops every time they re-entered my sales office throughout what might be a five-month period while their home was being built.
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