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Ticket price at time of release, or its relative price to other commodities in a given year, [10] in relation to general inflation and gross domestic product. [12] Economic conditions that may help or hurt the entertainment industry as a whole (theaters in 2008 lowered ticket prices to attract more viewers though the average ticket cost $7.00) [10]
Ticket window at North Port High School Performing Arts Center. A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket. By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1960 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
1900–1919. The first permanent motion picture theater in the state of California was Tally's Electric Theater, completed in 1902 in Los Angeles. Tally's theater was in a storefront in a larger building. The Great Train Robbery (1903), which was 12 minutes in length, would also give the film industry a boost. [5]
The 1950s saw costs rapidly escalate as cinema competed with television for audiences, [216] culminating with some hugely expensive epics in the 1960s that failed to recoup their costs. [139] A prominent example of this trend was Cleopatra (1963), which lost money on its initial release despite being the highest-grossing film of the year. [217]
The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing films that have sold at least 100 million tickets worldwide. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of box office territories. Therefore, it is not an exhaustive list of all the highest-grossing ...
The relatively strong uniformity of movie ticket prices, particularly in the U.S., is a common economics puzzle, because conventional supply and demand theory would suggest higher prices for more popular and more expensive movies, and lower prices for an unpopular "bomb" or for a documentary with less audience appeal. [81]
e. The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood), along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. Classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1910 to 1962, is still typical of most films made in America today.