What is Box office?
[[Image:IaoTheaterBoxOffice.JPG|right|thumb|Box office at the [[Iao Theater]], [[Maui]], [[Hawaii]].]] A '''box office''' is a place where [[Ticket (admission)|ticket]]s are sold to the public. These tickets let people into a [[theater]] to see an [[event]]. In the [[movie]] [[industry]], the term is most often used to mean the amount of [[money]] a movie makes by the selling of tickets. The term can also mean things which affect the amount a movie earns. ==Usage== ''Box office [[business]]'' can be [[measurement|measured]] in terms of how many people see a movie. It can also be measured by how much money is earned by selling tickets. The [[estimate]] of these amounts and [[analysis]] of them is very important to the movie industry. It is often something that is important to fans as well. Some people think that the movie industry is concerned too much with this. They say [[profit]] is more important to [[movie studio]]s than making movies as a form of [[art]]. Understanding how different types of movies earn money affects the how other movies are made and paid for. If a certain type of movie often has a large box office, studios are more likely to make that type of movie. Some types of movies earn more when they are released at certain times of the year. Studios use this information to plan when to release certain movies. For example: *[[Movies#Genre|Romantic-comedies]] tend to have a higher box office when released around [[Valentine's Day]]. *[[Family movie]]s do better near the [[Christmas]] and [[Thanksgiving]] [[holiday]]s. *[[Horror movie]]s do best near [[Halloween]]. There are many [[websites]] that show box office numbers. Two of these are [[ShowBIZ Data]] and [[Box Office Mojo]]. Usually, the movie's [[distribution|distributor]] gets more than half of the money earned. The rest is kept by the [[movie theater]]. The [[percentage]] is different from movie to movie. The distributor often gets a higher percentage in early weeks. As time passes, the percentage gets lower, and the theater keeps a larger