Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box office revenue
in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by
Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by
Amazon.Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998 making forecasts
of the top 10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the
following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he
started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with
box office analysis and in 1999, he started to post the Friday daily
box office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they
were publicly available for free online on Saturdays and posted the
Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. As well as the weekend grosses,
he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules as well as
other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office
charts, genre charts, actor and director charts. The site gradually
expanded to include weekend charts going back to 1982 and grosses for
older films and the international section expanded to cover the weekly
box office of 50 countries, international release schedules as well as
box office results from up to 107 countries.In 2002, Gray partnered
with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers.
In 2003, a subscription model was introduced (Premier Pass) to limit
certain data and features to subscribers. From 2002 to 2011, Box
Office Mojo had forums. The forums had more than 16,500 registered
users. On November 2, 2011, the forums were officially closed along
with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDb's message
boards. The IMDb forums were subsequently closed on February 20, 2017.
in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by
Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by
Amazon.Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998 making forecasts
of the top 10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the
following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he
started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with
box office analysis and in 1999, he started to post the Friday daily
box office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they
were publicly available for free online on Saturdays and posted the
Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. As well as the weekend grosses,
he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules as well as
other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office
charts, genre charts, actor and director charts. The site gradually
expanded to include weekend charts going back to 1982 and grosses for
older films and the international section expanded to cover the weekly
box office of 50 countries, international release schedules as well as
box office results from up to 107 countries.In 2002, Gray partnered
with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers.
In 2003, a subscription model was introduced (Premier Pass) to limit
certain data and features to subscribers. From 2002 to 2011, Box
Office Mojo had forums. The forums had more than 16,500 registered
users. On November 2, 2011, the forums were officially closed along
with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDb's message
boards. The IMDb forums were subsequently closed on February 20, 2017.
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