Talk:Box Office Mojo/Archives/2020

Per-screen average
Whatever happened to Per-screen average figures on BOM? Back in 2010, BOM still showed how much money a film was making per screen during any given day, week, or during its entire run. All that's left now is "theater averages", which only refers to the number of theaters where it plays.

If it was removed as a category, I think it should be mentioned here. --2003:EF:13DB:3B43:8D:4201:B0A3:E2B9 (talk) 03:13, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Please help me sir Oinam Abungcha (talk) 09:57, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Harry Potter fail
Box Office Mojo frequently makes mistakes but they aren't usually notable enough to get coverage by reliable source and be included in the article.


 * Talk:Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone_(film)

A recent example is the claim that the re-release of Harry Potter brought the total box office gross to over $1 billion, but they later revised their figures downwards. When it comes to examples of them changing their figures after the fact you aren't likely to get an example more noticeable than this was, but they make small mistakes all the time.


 * More information about Box Office Mojo double counting

If you want to be generous you could say Box Office Mojo does the best it can with the information that is available. Either way they make a lot of mistakes, and I think it should be noted and I would definitely add it to the article if reliable sources actually covered it. -- 109.77.192.162 (talk) 14:18, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Here an IMDb employee offers an explanation for the double counting: I believe this counts as a primary source citable under WP:ABOUTSELF, although there may be NPOV concerns in bringing up the double counting in the first place (unless we can find a third-party RS that discusses it). Nardog (talk) 23:02, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe rather than emphasizing the many failures we might do better to include this as small explanation of their methodology. It might be worth explaining to readers that it is not as simple as it might seem, it is not like reporting statistics like sports news, but that they have to work from much more unreliable inputs. -- 109.77.201.32 (talk) 15:36, 2 September 2020 (UTC)