Box office
Box office noun - Total admission receipts for an entertainment.
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Revenue and box office are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Revenue" instead a noun phrase "Box office".
Revenue
Revenue noun - An increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property.
Box office and revenue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box office" instead a noun "Revenue".
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- A Box Office Bomb (or less severely, a flop) is a movie for which production and marketing cost greatly exceeds its gross revenue, ergo fails to turn a profit for the studio behind the film.
Source: Box Office Bomb - No accurate box office numbers seem to exist, but the revenue could be around $11.5 million.
Source: Box Office Bomb / I Through R -
Though this pleased the critics, this formula for a superhero film did not work well at all for Hulk at the box office, where it made a record drop in revenue from first to second week.
Source: Film / Hulk
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