Box Office Mojo

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Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo screenshot.png
Box Office Mojo homepage
Web address boxofficemojo.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Film
Registration Not compulsory
Available in English
Owner Amazon.com
Created by Brandon Gray
Launched 1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Alexa rank
 Negative increase 2,260 (October 2014)[1]
Current status Active

Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, owned by Amazon. The website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans. On October 10, 2014, the website's URL was redirected to Amazon's IMDB.com website for one day,[2] but the website returned the following day without explanation.[3]

History

Brandon Gray started the site in 1999. In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers.[4] In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon.com through its subsidiary, the Internet Movie Database.[5][6]

From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums, which were a popular place for box office "fanatics", and the site at one time was home to several popular movie games and quizzes/tests (e.g., Fantasy Box Office (created in 2006) and Create a Year of Movies), until these were summarily canceled for undisclosed reasons.[citation needed] Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users.[citation needed] On November 2, 2011 the forums were officially closed along with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDB's message boards, even though not all the same features were available there.[7] Tracking is still done very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors, making it possible to see the general trend of a film's "earnings trajectory".[citation needed]

Box Office Mojo International

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The international section covers the weekly box office of 50 territories and includes historical box office information from three more, as well as provides information for box office results for individual movies from up to 107 territories. The site also creates an overall weekend chart, combining all box office returns from around the world, excluding the United States and Canada. The overall weekend chart currently tracks the Top 40 films as well as approximately fifty additional films with no ranking.

Box Office Mojo International also reports the release schedule of upcoming movies for Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Norway, Russia and the CIS, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The site additionally has yearly and all time features for its various territories. Box Office Mojo was as of June 2009 reporting limited data from overseas and is "work(ing) on improvements". Most of the international charts have not been updated since November 2014 (as of September[8] 2015).

Redirection to IMDB, October 2014

On October 10, 2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDB's box office page,[9][10] before returning the following day.[11]

Queries about the closure to IMDB and Amazon representatives were met with no response. Neither Brandon Gray, who founded the website but left several years ago after its sale to Amazon, nor Ray Subers, the operator at that time, would respond either.[12] On Ray Subers' Twitter[13][page needed] account, he revealed the website's return, but also stated he would not answer any questions pertaining to closure.[14] Subers subsequently left the website seven months later.[15]

References

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External links

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  4. ↑ "About Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
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  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ "Forums". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/
  9. ↑ http://www.thewrap.com/box-office-mojo-absorbed-into-imdb-com/
  10. ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-mojo-fate-uncertain-739999
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  13. ↑ https://twitter.com/raysubers
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ https://twitter.com/raysubers/status/599283292144345088
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