Foreign Box Office

Box office in its original sense refers to the ticket counters in cinemas. Gradually, it began to denote the total collection or profit made by a film through its theater release. The terms box office [Page 714]hit or box office disaster entered popular culture. Foreign box office or international box office refers to the profit earned by a film through its international release. Foreign box office collections have been a major source of revenue for all major film industries in the world, such as Hollywood and Bollywood.

The relation between box office collection and the net profit made by the film or the producer of a film is intricate because it involves the deduction of money from the gross box office collection, such as film rentals, ...