Where can I find box office grosses for films or Broadway shows?
Broadway • The Broadway League under “Research & Information.” Figures here include the weekly earnings of each play from 1984 to the present, along with cumulative figures for each season and for touring shows. • Variety offers weekly box office figures for film and theatre. • World Almanac > Search this publication > search: Broadway (New York, N.Y.) as a subjectFilm • Motion Picture Association of America > Policy & Research > Industry Reports > Theatrical Market Statistics • Internet Movie Database (under “Box Office” at the bottom of the home page) provides weekly U.S. grosses by film from 1998 to the present, as well as total grosses for more than 300 of the all-time top-grossing films in the U.S., outside the U.S., and worldwide. You can also search an individual film by title and under “Other Info” (in the left-hand sidebar) find a “Box office/Business” link which will give you the film’s budget and total gross. • World Almanac > Search within this publication > search: motion
