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internal multiplier

Entertainment; Movies

A film's weekend box office divided by its Friday number. It's basically a measure of the film's word-of-mouth, with 3.0 being the best most films can get these day while 2.3 is generally the bottom ...

home market

Entertainment; Movies

The Home Market refers to revenue derived from people viewing movies at home. It is broken down into three sections: rentals, sales and TV rights. Combined these bring in more than double the ...

worldwide box office

Entertainment; Movies

Domestic box office plus the international box office.

sequelitis

Entertainment; Movies

Think of this as a sub-species of the Fanboy Effect specific to sequels. Such films have a built in audience due to the original movie (as otherwise making the sequel is pointless).

multiplier

Entertainment; Movies

A film's total box office divided by its opening weekend box office. Another measure of the film's word-of-mouth but with a much wider range of possibilities. Films with below 2.0 are not unheard of, ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Entertainment; Movies

Part one of the seventh and final installment in the Harry Potter film series, with the story following Harry Potter on a quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort’s secret to immortality – the ...

theaters & theater count

Entertainment; Movies

A theater is any place a movie is showing from the smallest cinema on the art house circuit to the largest megaplex. A film's Theater Count is simply the number of theaters a film is playing in at a ...

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