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Author Topic: Box Office Feeds Sam Cat Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Brisbane, Qld, Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 08-10-2008 03:26 AM                        Does any know where you could receive US Box Office Feeds, and or other countries for a cinema website?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-10-2008 06:54 AM                     quote: Sam Cat Does any know where you could receive US Box Office Feeds, and or other countries for a cinema website? What do you mean...box office results? www.boxofficemojo.com is a good one if you do. Or www.thenumbers.com .  |  IP: Logged Sam Cat Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Brisbane, Qld, Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 08-11-2008 07:12 PM                        I am not sure what has happened with Box Office Mojo, they haven't updated their international box office figures since July. I am not sure if they are in financial trouble, or if they are going to put them back online, or just stop the international section. Does anyone know?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 08-11-2008 07:30 PM                     I just checked and it shows an update of 8/11.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-11-2008 09:39 PM                     That's USA, not international. Have you tried emailing them?  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 08-11-2008 09:44 PM                     At the top of the international page link it says "NOTE: The International section is currently on hiatus and will be back in full force in mid-August. There will be limited updates until then." It appears to be updated as of today : link  |  IP: Logged Sam Cat Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Brisbane, Qld, Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 08-12-2008 01:51 AM                        Hi John I have emailed them and no response as of yet. At the top of the international page link it says "NOTE: The International section is currently on hiatus and will be back in full force in mid-August. There will be limited updates until then." Thanks for that Anslem. For some reason I must have kept skipping over this message. Anslem is right they are updating the Gross Box Office for movies total combined boxoffice internationally but not for each individual country, of which I am mainly after Australia. They seemed to have stopped for all countries outside the US around the start of July. Box Office Mojo International for Australia I would like to know why they have suddenly stopped updating this service for the last 6 weeks? As I am a subscriber. But I guess I will just have to watch this week and see if they can fix what ever problem they have encountered.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-12-2008 05:27 AM                     I'm thinking summer vacation. We'll see...  |  IP: Logged Rick Hunter Master Film Handler Posts: 452 From: Melbourne, Australia Registered: Feb 2003 posted 08-13-2008 01:53 AM                     Hi Sam. If you are after Australian figures you could try www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/boxoffice.asp  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-13-2008 07:01 AM                     Urban Cinefile are useless. They used to be good and reliable but then they got greedy and decided to charge for the figures. That obviously didn't work as they are now back to being free...and the figures are now inaccurate, unless that is, The Dark Knight opened a week earlier in Australia than the rest of the world. If only there was another website that gave reliable figures free of charge...MovieMarshal.com.au used to be great but they lost interest. Maybe someone else will take on the challenge, eh...?  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 08-18-2008 11:34 AM                        The challenge is that the Box Office data is expensive. It's expensive for sites like mine to provide (because we buy the data from suppliers that charge large amounts for it), so if there isn't much revenue potential for a set of BO figures (like International), you might run into some problems finding them. I only do U.S. Box Office figures: http://www.bigscreen.com/NowShowing.php?view=boxoffice http://www.bigscreen.com/extranet/boxoffice.php (version of the above for our Featured Theaters -- reg. req'd) and I have never received a request from our readers or Featured Theaters to do anything more than that. Sites that aren't paying for them and just getting them "unofficially" will either give up because hand-entering them or scraping them off a site is too much of a bother, or they get shut down by the services they are scraping from or the services that supply the data. Bottom line is, if you want data to republish, you have to pay for it. If you're not paying for it, it's either unreliable or you're most likely breaking someone's access terms by getting it and republishing it. Data suppliers are very insistent about their customers not reselling or publishing the data in an importable form, and some sites choose to ignore those stipulations. At least until they get their Cease & Desist letter from guys with the "Attorney at Law" moniker after their names...  |  IP: Logged Sam Cat Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Brisbane, Qld, Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 09-07-2008 06:32 AM                        Woth Box Office Mojo it is now the 7th of September and the last update was July 24-27th for Australia. So far it looks like they may not be continually updating their international section. They still have the wording that they will be back in full force in August though.  |  IP: Logged

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