Box Office FAQ

FilmDB Box Office is a public movie-financial reference site built around searchable box office profiles, worldwide charts, yearly rankings, budgets, ROI context, studios, franchises and genres.

The public dataset contains movie records that meet the site’s identity, data-quality and publication rules. Coverage depends on reliable title matching and the availability of usable financial or tracking information.

Update frequency depends on the source and workflow. Current releases may change more frequently, while older records are updated when a better source, correction or verified match becomes available.

Rankings can change when reported grosses are revised, re-release revenue is added, duplicate records are resolved or a correction changes the values used by the chart.

Reported worldwide theatrical box office gross. It does not include streaming, television or home-entertainment revenue.

Reported production budget where available. Marketing, distribution and financing costs are usually not included.

Worldwide gross minus reported production budget. This is not studio net profit and excludes cinema revenue sharing, marketing, distribution fees, tax incentives and downstream revenue.

Worldwide theatrical gross divided by reported production budget. ROI is shown only when the underlying values pass the public validation rules. A value is not shown when the public validation rules cannot confirm a usable reported budget and gross.

ROI requires a usable reported production budget and a compatible gross value. If the budget is missing, zero, disputed or unsuitable for public calculation, the profile can remain public while ROI stays unavailable.

No reliable production budget is available. The profile may still be public, but ROI cannot be validated.

Reported theatrical gross from the domestic or North American market, depending on the source definition.

Reported theatrical gross outside the domestic market. Source coverage and market definitions can vary.

Reported opening-weekend theatrical gross for the available market and source scope.

This value was derived from other reported data rather than supplied as a directly reported financial figure. Estimated fields are labelled so they are not confused with directly reported figures.

Yes. A movie shown in a public box office list must have a working public profile, a valid public slug and enough eligible financial or tracking information to meet the list’s publication rules.

A film may be excluded because its identity match is unresolved, its public profile is disabled, its slug is missing, the required metric is unavailable or the record does not meet the chart’s current validation rules.

At least one usable financial field is available, such as worldwide, domestic or international gross, budget, opening weekend or daily gross.

The record is linked to a FilmDB identity or FilmDB source record.

Charts sort by the selected metric and then use stable secondary ordering where available. Two films can therefore have the same displayed value while still appearing in a consistent list order.

When a source reports cumulative theatrical revenue, re-release revenue may be included in the movie’s current total. Release-year context and source notes should be checked when comparing historical rankings.

The system can use FilmDB records and configured external providers for discovery, identity matching and enrichment. Source use varies by field, licensing, availability and confidence; not every movie is populated from every provider.

FilmDB can provide internal title identity, linked metadata and available financial context. It is treated as a controlled source layer rather than a reason to overwrite stronger verified values automatically.

TMDB may be used for title discovery, identifiers, release metadata, images and available budget or revenue fields. Imported values still pass the site’s matching, preservation and publication rules.

OMDb may supply identifiers, ratings and a BoxOffice field. In this system the OMDb BoxOffice value is treated as domestic box office, not worldwide gross.

No. Automatic enrichment requires a sufficiently confident identity match and usable data. Ambiguous or conflicting matches are skipped or held for review rather than creating a misleading public profile.

The bulk enrichment workflow can check configured FilmDB, TMDB and OMDb sources for missing eligible fields. Existing positive values are protected, uncertain matches are not auto-published and unresolved records remain outside affected public charts.

Public movie records currently linked to this studio, franchise, genre or index. This may not represent a complete historical filmography.

Not necessarily. A studio page shows public movie records currently mapped to that studio, distributor or production company in this dataset. Historical credits and territory-specific roles may be incomplete.

Franchise total gross is the combined worldwide theatrical gross of the public movie records currently linked to that franchise. The total changes if mappings or reported grosses are corrected.

Combined worldwide theatrical gross of the public movie records assigned to this release year.

Year pages only include public records that meet the current profile and ranking rules. Missing identity matches, unavailable metrics or unpublished profiles can reduce the visible count.

Genre pages are built from the genre mappings stored on eligible public movie records. A title can contribute to more than one genre chart when multiple genres are mapped.

Streaming availability and popularity data can be supplied by configured external providers. Availability is region-specific, changes over time and should be confirmed on the provider’s own page before viewing.

A current external provider or regional popularity position. It is not an all-time audience or box-office ranking.

Streaming availability and rankings are specific to the selected country or region and can change over time.

IMDb is generally a user score on a 10-point scale. Rotten Tomatoes is a percentage score. Metacritic is a weighted score on a 100-point scale. FilmDB values use the source shown on the profile.

Use the Corrections page or contact form and include the movie title, release year, affected metric, proposed correction and a reliable source reference.

Send the movie title, release year and at least one reliable identifier or source. The team can then review identity matching, financial coverage and public-profile eligibility.

Timing depends on the evidence, source availability, cache refresh and whether related rankings need to be rebuilt. Complex identity or duplicate-record issues can take longer than a simple field correction.

Use the contact page and select or describe the relevant chart, movie or metric. Include the page URL when possible so the question can be reviewed in context.