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ATTENTION
Admissions to films categorised as 'US'
in LUMIERE are in reality the NORTH AMERICAN admissions (that is
US and Canada) to the film. Prior to 2001 admissions reported as
'US' in LUMIERE included only sporadically results for the French-speaking
market of Québec. From 2001 onwards, however, these results
have been systematically included in results reported by Variety
for individual films. Please note that LUMIERE also provides a separate
data series from the Observatoire
de la culture et des communications showing detailed information
on the Québec market. These results are shown under the code
'QC'. |
1. ACNielsen-EDI
The company AC Nielsen-EDI
is the main source of information on box office receipts and admissions
for films shown in the United States.
AC Nielsen-EDI data is available on subscription. However,
weekly data showing the main market trends is published on the company's
website.
2. Exhibitor Relations Company
Inc.
Exhibitor
Relations Company Inc. is an other company tracking box-office results
by contacting the exhibitors. Its services are available by subscription.
3. Variety
In January each year, film magazine Variety
publishes a list of the previous year's top 250 films in terms of box
office receipts on the North American market. The North American market
is defined as United States box office plus receipts derived from theatres
in Canada. Prior to 2001 Variety reporting included box office
receipts from the US and English-speaking Canada. Receipts generated
in theatres in the French-language market of the province of Québec
were included only sporadically. Since 2001 Variety reporting
has systematically included data on the Québec market. This data
is provided by the Cineac
Cinemy Agency.
On the basis of the box office figures for individual
films published by Variety, we estimate the number of admissions
to each film on the North American market by using the average ticket
price published by the National
Association of Theatre Owners for the year in question.
4. Yahoo Movies
Yahoo
Movies publishes a weekly
chart of films distributed in the United States (more than 130 each
week).
5. Movie Web
The MovieWeb
website contains a weekly
chart of the 25 films with the highest box office receipts and a
cumulative
list of the top 50 films on the American market .
6. Internet Movie Database - IMDB
The IMDB
website publishes a cumulative list of the 250 films with the highest
box office receipts on the American
market, the international
market (excluding the USA) and the global
market.
7. Washington Post
The Washington
Post website includes a list
of films that have earned more than USD 100 million in US box office receipts
in the year of their release.
8. Other sources of weekly or cumulative data
9. Sites that forecast film success
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