Box office
Box office noun - The office where tickets of admission are sold.
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Profits and box office are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Profits" instead a noun phrase "Box office".
Profits
Profits noun - The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).
Box office and profits are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box office" instead a noun "Profits".
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- After the two films had a combined box office intake of $2.2 billion (compared to the $1 billion a single film would have brought in), many studios began to split the final films of their franchises into two parts so they can milk them for more profits.
Source: Follow The Leader / Film -
Pyrrhic Victory: To the Devil... A Daughter, the last film in Hammer's original period, actually did very well at the box office, but because all the profits went to the movie's German backers, Hammer was forced to close its doors shortly thereafter.
Source: Film / Hammer Horror - Going strictly by box office profits, Reacher beat out Parker by a factor of five.
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