Last updated: 6 May 2026
Overview FilmDB Box Office is a chart-first movie financial reference site. It organises films by worldwide gross, yearly chart position, budget, estimated profit, ROI, studios, franchises and related ranking views.
Worldwide gross Worldwide gross is the primary ranking metric where available. It may come from imported provider data, enrichment data, manual review or future correction workflows. Figures can change after publication because box office reporting is revised over time.
Budget Budget values are used to calculate profit and ROI where available. Budget values can be incomplete, estimated or disputed across sources, so ROI should be treated as an analytical reference rather than a final audited financial result.
Profit and ROI Estimated profit is generally calculated as worldwide gross minus budget. ROI is generally calculated as worldwide gross divided by budget. These calculations do not account for theatrical rental splits, marketing costs, tax incentives, residuals, participation, financing costs or downstream revenue.
Domestic, international and opening weekend Some films do not have reliable domestic gross, international gross or opening weekend fields available from the active feeds. When no reported value is available, the site may display a clearly marked Simulated estimate. Simulated values are modelled from worldwide gross, film type, release profile, genre/franchise patterns and default market-split assumptions. They are not official reported market splits.
Simulation confidence Simulated estimates may include a confidence indicator such as low, medium or high. A higher confidence label means the model had stronger contextual signals; it does not mean the figure is official. Reported values should replace simulated values when reliable source data becomes available.
Imported, enriched, simulated and reviewed data Imported data comes from configured data providers. Enriched data comes from secondary providers such as OMDb or FilmDB. Simulated data is modelled by the Box Office system and must be labelled. Reviewed data has been checked or adjusted by an administrator.
Movie detail eligibility The site may create full public movie pages for high-value chart entries while retaining lower-priority films as chart rows. This helps avoid thin low-value pages while keeping ranking data crawlable and useful.
Corrections Visitors can submit correction requests with source references. The site may update values, add notes, re-run enrichment or defer changes if evidence is insufficient.