Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Grosses

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Operations » Ground Level » Grosses

Author

Topic: Grosses

Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 11-04-2002 11:11 AM

How can I get grosses for, say, the last year for a small plex that just closed?

| IP: Logged

Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 11-04-2002 11:18 AM

Your best bet is probably talking to the individual distributors to get the theater's reported grosses. Or you might be able to pay ACNeilsenEDI to tell you.

| IP: Logged

Dennis Benjamin
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1445
From: Denton, MD
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-04-2002 12:33 PM

john.collins@nielsenedi.com

He's the man. E-mail with the exact info you want and he will e-mail you back an exact quote of the amount it will cost you for the info.

------------------
"Running through life at 24 frames per second"

| IP: Logged

Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 11-04-2002 03:58 PM

Back in April when I was seriously looking into buying an existing drive-in here in Tennessee, the existing operator (not the owner) would NOT give up any numbers at all.

I got ahold of a couple of other drive-in owners who suggested calling a film booker, and they might be able to help. We did just that, and we got enough information from his report to decide we would NOT pursue the purchase any further.

I was amazed at what information he could get. However, I think what the existing operator "turned in for grosses" vs. "what they actually pulled in" might be a little different. I found it extremely hard to believe that a theatre (drive-in or hard top) could only pull in $3,800.00 (TOTAL) for 3 weeks of Spiderman @ 1 week off the break.

------------------
Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Lebanon, Tennessee

Stardust Drive-In Theatre
Watertown, Tennessee

| IP: Logged

Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 11-04-2002 05:58 PM

Well, that's what Certified Reports / Verified Reports is for!

Adam & Dennis: Thanks for the referral.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.