Surely, every lover of a movie you like is interested in information not only of a general nature - a list of actors, producers, directors, individual facts about the picture. The categories “budget” and “fees” occupy a special place. According to them, we can assume what will be the success of the film. What is the box office from the rental of the picture, we will understand further.
From budget to profit - one step
These two important components are inseparable from each other. In plain Russian, the box office represents the difference between the means invested in production (including marketing and advertising) and the means that the film ultimately brought. But this is not a final profit. Often, a certain percentage is taken by movie theaters, letting the tape out. Tracking the proceeds from the tickets sold is carried out constantly, there are specially created analytical departments in major film studios and branches in other countries.
For everyone involved in the production of the film, a contract is developed under the terms of which a fee is negotiated. It can be fixed, regardless of the future success of the picture, or make up some part, and a certain percentage is left for later, after the end of the rental. It is known that a similar method is often used by Tom Cruise. For the third part of the film “Mission Impossible”, his fee amounted to 75 million dollars. The income from the “Phantom Protocol” movie consisted of a negotiated fee of 12.5 million, in addition to this, a percentage of the total revenue from ticket sales was added. Cash collection is classified information that companies prefer to keep secret. This, of course, causes burning interest among fans, but in most cases they can only guess who gets how much.
Box office - the main condition in choosing a movie
Information about the profit says a lot. This is an indicator of the status of the studio that released the film, as well as a prerequisite for choosing this film for viewing. Each viewer from the variety of products presented wants to dwell on what is really interesting. Nobody wants to spend their time on medium quality tapes. Thus, box office can say with great certainty about the size and popularity of a particular picture, under which its quality is also hidden.
Subtotals
While the picture is in the box office, weekly analytical reports are compiled, which talk about the place occupied by the film. Other tapes at the same time are compared. Such lists are called Box-Office. They reflect various data: total budget, number of rental weeks, weekend charges (weekends), general fees.
The best of the best
Boxofficemojo.com's largest cinema website monitors video rental fees on a continuous basis. And compiles lists of the most successful films based on data from ticket sales. This information is not recognized as official, but it can be considered objective, if only because the total figure does not include profits from a television show, from video and DVD rental. It also takes into account inflation, which contributes to the promotion of higher positions. The box office films, studied by such parameters as the country and year of release, provide an opportunity to present those films that occupy a leading place. Among them:
- "Avatar."
- "Titanic".
- "Star Wars".
- "Gone With the Wind".
- "The Dark Knight".
- "Jurassic Park".
- "Cold heart".
- "Alice in Wonderland".
- “The Lion King”.
- "The Da Vinci Code".
The most profitable series include:
- "Harry Potter".
- "James Bond".
- The Avengers.
- Spider-Man
- "Lord of the Rings".
- “Transformers”.
- "Pirates of the Caribbean".
- "Dusk".
- “X-Men.”
- The Fast and the Furious.