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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 ...
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
The term "box office" was being used from at least 1741, deriving from the office from which tickets for theatre boxes were sold (although the use of "box" for a private section from which to watch the play was in use in 1609); this is the derivation favoured by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Screen quotas (no influence on U.S. box office) Price differences: matinee and evening tickets, [13] roadshow tickets, [13] or difference between rural and urban cinemas [12] Length of release (number of weeks) [13] Further explanation of issues with calculating an adjusted gross can be found in the article for List of highest-grossing films.
This is a list of the highest-grossing superhero film series at the box office. The Marvel Cinematic Universe ranks as the highest-grossing film series of all time grossing over $31.1 billion. Avengers has the best average with an average of $1.9 billion per film. A series must have at least two released films to qualify for this list.
Because of the effects of inflation on cinema ticket prices, a list unadjusted for inflation gives much more weight to later actors. [1] Therefore, gross revenue lists are largely meaningless for comparing acting careers widely separated in time, as many actors from earlier eras will not appear on a modern, unadjusted list, despite their films achieving higher commercial success when adjusted ...
A ticket is a voucher that indicates that an individual is entitled to admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, amusement park, stadium, or tourist attraction, or has a right to travel on a vehicle, such as with an airline ticket, bus ticket or train ticket. An individual typically pays for a ticket, but it may be free of charge.
The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing stop motion films. Laika produced the most, with six films, while the most represented year is 2012 with three films. Some of the data is incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of countries.