{{short description|American film industry magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Boxoffice Pro | logo = Box Office Pro logo.svg | image_file = <!-- cover.jpg (omit the "file: prefix --> | image_size = <!-- 220px (the default if no size is stated) --> | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | frequency = | circulation = | category = | company = Webedia | publisher = The Boxoffice Company (Webedia subsidiary) | founded = {{Start date|1920}} | firstdate = | country = United States | based = Ridgefield, Connecticut | language = English | website = {{URL|https://www.boxofficepro.com/}} | issn = 0006-8527 | oclc = 801242395 }}
'''''Boxoffice Pro''''' is a film industry magazine dedicated to the movie theatre business published by The Boxoffice Company (Webedia), through BoxOffice Media LP.
== History == It started in 1920<ref name="iwire">{{cite news|author=Matt Singer|title=Boxoffice Magazine Stops Publishing Film Reviews|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2013/01/boxoffice-magazine-stops-publishing-film-reviews-128559/|access-date=October 15, 2016|work=IndieWire|date=January 17, 2013}}</ref> as ''The Reel Journal'', taking the name ''Boxoffice'' in 1931<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles R. Acland|title=Screen traffic: movies, multiplexes, and global culture|publisher=Duke University Press, 2003|year=2008|page=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCvSslWFlnMC&dq=boxoffice+%22The+Reel+Journal%22&pg=PA8|isbn=978-0-8223-3163-6}}</ref> and still publishes today, with an intended audience of theatre owners and film professionals. In 2019, its name was changed to ''Boxoffice Pro''.
''Boxoffice Pro'' is the official publication of the National Association of Theatre Owners,<ref>{{cite web|title=Publications|year=2008|work=National Association of Theatre Owners |url=http://www.natoonline.org/publications.htm|access-date=May 27, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902135359/http://www.natoonline.org/publications.htm |archive-date=September 2, 2013}}</ref> a role it took on in 2006.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Boxoffice Magazine and The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) Ink Pact|date=December 1, 2006|url=http://www.articlearchives.com/entertainment-arts/movies-sound-recording-movie-video/1934048-1.html|access-date=May 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>[http://www.cinematical.com/2007/01/13/goodbye-in-focus/ Goodbye In Focus], Christopher Campbell, ''Cinematical''</ref> In 1937 the magazine began to publish box office reports; it ended its publication of movie reviews in 2012.<ref name=iwire/>
The magazine was originally published every Saturday by Associated Publications.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/boxofficejulsep133unse#page/n6/mode/1up|date=July 2, 1938|page=3|work=BoxOffice|title=They Find Warner Guilty|access-date=April 23, 2018}}</ref> Box office performance was expressed as a percentage of normal performance with normal being expressed as 100%.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/boxofficejulsep133unse#page/n43/mode/1up|date=July 2, 1938|page=32|title="A Man's Castle" Reissue Proves Best Draw|work=BoxOffice|access-date=April 23, 2018}}</ref> A Barometer issue was published in January with a review of the year including the performance of movies for the year.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/boxofficebaromet00boxo_4#page/n0/mode/1up|title=BoxOffice Barometer A Review of 1947 A Preview of 1948|access-date=April 23, 2018}}</ref>
''Boxoffice'' was acquired by the French group Webedia in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Introducing BoxOffice Global Entertainment: A Global Digital Media Player For The Film Industry| work = Boxoffice| access-date = 2021-01-01| date = 2015-04-17| url = https://www.boxofficepro.com/introducing-boxoffice-global-entertainment-a-global-digital-media-player-for-the-film-industry/}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.boxofficepro.com/}} * [https://archive.org/search?query=%22Reel+Journal%22&sort=-date ''The Reel Journal''] and [https://archive.org/search?query=Boxoffice&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22 ''Boxoffice''] at the Internet Archive * [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=reeljournal ''The Reel Journal''] and [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=boxoffice ''Boxoffice''] at the Online Books Page
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