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54-540: The play was produced by Robert Reud; settings were by Frederick Fox and costumes by Peggy Clark. Despite much critical skepticism, it was a moderate box office success on Broadway, running for 216 performances during early 1944. It then went on tour, and was played in community and regional theater during the 1950s, but has not had a Broadway revival. Characters are listed in order of appearance within their scope. Leads Supporting Featured The Philadelphia Inquirer critic Linton Martin noted "'Ramshackle Inn'

108-472: A stadium . Box office business can be measured in terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales ( revenue ). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry . To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare

162-548: A centralized basis from theaters rather than each theater chain collating their own numbers from other theater chains. The company later became National Gross Service then Entertainment Data, Inc. (EDI). Except for disclosures by the studios on very successful films, total domestic (U.S. and Canada) box office gross information for films was not readily available until National Gross Service started to collate this data around 1981. The collation of grosses led to wider reporting of domestic box office grosses for films. Arthur D. Murphy,

216-421: A follower of Evangeline Adams and had chosen the date according to astrological principles. Critical reception of the play was unanimous that ZaSu Pitts performed very well in a losing effort, the work itself being fatally flawed. Arthur Pollock of The Brooklyn Eagle said of ZaSu Pitts and the play that it was "no pearl of the comic spirit, but she is a charming buffoon and there are many people who will find

270-496: A former U.S. Navy lieutenant at Variety was one of the first to organize and chart that information and report it in a meaningful form. During the 1980s, Daily Variety started to publish a weekly chart of the domestic box office grosses of films collated from the studios as compared to the Top 50 chart in Variety which was based on a sample of theatre grosses from key markets. Gradually

324-420: A list of films that had achieved or gave promise of earning $ 4,000,000 or more in domestic (U.S. and Canada) theatrical rentals . This became a leading source of data for a film's performance. Variety would publish an updated all-time list annually for over 50 years, normally in their anniversary edition each January. The anniversary edition would also normally contain the list of the top performing films of

378-527: A percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor's share of the box office gross is often referred to as the "distributor rentals", especially for box office reporting of older films. Ceramic money boxes were used at the sixteenth-century Globe Theatre and Rose Theatre in London, where many examples have been found during archaeological investigations. They were possibly used by

432-409: A rundown, vermin-infested shambles, tenented by a murderous liquor-cutting gang, kidnappers, undercover FBI agents and soon after her arrival, a growing number of corpses. Sinister folks, some toting bodies, sidle in and out of the lobby's ten doorways, while Miss Pryde stalks and is stalked. By play's end she has captured all the crooks still living and proved the innocence of the unjustly accused son of

486-508: A thriving astrological consulting business, gained widespread notability for successfully defending her astrological practice in court, and produced a number of popular books about astrology, including Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1927), Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars (1930), and her autobiography, The Bowl of Heaven (1926). While Aleister Crowley ghostwrote her books on astrology, Adams

540-403: A thriving astrological practice based on consultation by person or mail. This grew to employ several assistants and stenographers. For a number of years Adams employed Crowley as a ghost-writer. Their business relationship eventually turned into an acrimonious one, which brought copyright issues of "who really wrote what", with regards to Crowley's General Principles of Astrology (now settled with

594-457: Is an acknowledged contributor to Crowley's own astrological text The General Practice of Astrology . She has been described as "America's first astrological superstar". Adams was born on 8 February 1868 in Jersey City , New Jersey , to a conservative family. Her father died when she was 15 months old. Before Adams began working as an astrologer full-time, she became engaged to a Mr. Lord, who

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648-571: Is believed to have been her employer. Although she said that she was initially in love with him, she reportedly lost her feelings for him and ended the engagement. Thousands of subscribers to her astrological newsletter followed her advice to invest in stocks during the run-up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 . Evangeline Adams died in 1932. It was towards the end of her career that Adams took to publishing books and raising her profile within popular media. For most of her working life, she ran

702-408: Is now also used. In particular, the weekend box office for the initial week of release, or opening weekend, is often widely reported. (See List of highest-grossing openings for films .) Theaters is the number of theaters in which the movie is showing. Since a single theater may show a movie on multiple screens, the total number of screens or engagements is used as another measure. The theaters measure

756-467: Is often incomplete due to the way box office reporting evolved, especially in the U.S., and the availability of information prior to the introduction of the internet. Variety started reporting box office results by theatre on March 3, 1922, to give exhibitors around the country information on a film's performance on Broadway, which was often where first run showings of a film were held. In addition to New York City, they also endeavoured to include all of

810-514: Is the cluttered and confusing kind of play that would be difficult and dangerous to describe in detail". Reviewer Bill Hill stated "To reduce to sentence form any of the action of this play would be pointless". Belinda Pryde, having read Grand Hotel , longs to own a similar rendezvous for interesting people. She settles for buying, sight unseen, Ye Olde Colonial Inn on the New England seacoast from its perpetually inebriated owner. It turns out to be

864-413: Is used to classify whether a film is in wide release , meaning at least 600 theaters, or limited release which is less than 600 theaters. Occasionally, a film may achieve wide release after an initial limited release; Little Miss Sunshine is an example of this. Gross refers to gross earnings. On average, the movie's distributor receives a little more than half of the final gross (often referred to as

918-478: The Daily News concurred with other reviewers that Miss Pitts' performance was the main draw, but also mentioned some able support from Joe Downing, Richard Rober, and Harlan Briggs. He called Ramshackle Inn a "tumbledown play" and noted that the audience could only have "a merely mildly exciting time as the plot unfolded like one of Miss Pitts' knee joints". However, there is nothing harder for critics to predict than

972-634: The Ritz Theater on November 2, 1943, though casting was still ongoing. Corporal Batson, stationed at Fort Monmouth , had to apply for a pass from his commanding officer to attend the tryout. The first tryout opened in Boston at the Wilbur Theatre on November 22, 1943. The local reviewer noted the audience's enthusiasm for a work that was neither original nor brilliant; its familiarity and stock characters seemed to be what they wanted. After two weeks in Boston,

1026-532: The coronavirus pandemic . Only drive-in theaters , which are typically not included in box office reporting, remained open. The average ticket price (ATP) is the average cost to purchase a film ticket at the box office in any given year. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics , the ATP is "calculated as the total revenues generated from tickets sales divided by the number of feature film tickets sold during

1080-430: The "gatherer" at the entrance to the theatres, who collected the admission money. There is disagreement, however, around whether the term originates from this time, as the objects could have been carried by the many snack-sellers attending the audiences; they too needed a convenient and secure way to collect their customers' cash. There is no record of the term being used until the eighteenth century. The term "box office"

1134-474: The 1930s, BoxOffice magazine published a Barometer issue in January, which reported the performance of movies for the year expressed as percentages. In 1946, Variety started to publish a weekly National Box Office survey on page 3 indicating the performance of the week's hits and flops based on the box office results of 25 key U.S. cities. Later in 1946, Variety published a list of All-Time Top Grossers with

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1188-566: The Friday grosses sourced from Exhibitor Relations so that they were publicly available for free online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday estimates on Sundays. In July 2008, Box Office Mojo was purchased by Amazon.com through its subsidiary , IMDb . Rentrak started tracking box office data from point of sale in 2001 and started to rival EDI in providing the studios with data. In December 2009, Rentrak acquired Nielsen EDI for $ 15 million, and became

1242-610: The North American ticket sales by dividing the domestic box office gross by the average ticket price (ATP) of a given year, a method that Box Office India uses to estimate Indian footfalls (ticket sales). See List of films by box office admissions for the films with the highest known estimated ticket sales. For lists of films which are major box-office hits, see List of highest-grossing films , List of films by box office admissions and Lists of highest-grossing films . Films that are considered to have been very unsuccessful at

1296-473: The UK, moved into Germany in 1993 and Spain in 1995 reporting box office data for those markets. EDI were acquired by ACNielsen Corporation in 1997 for $ 26 million and became Nielsen EDI. By the 1990s, Daily Variety started to report studio's weekend estimates from Sundays on Monday mornings which led to other media reporting the data earlier. When Entertainment Weekly was launched in 1990 it started to publish

1350-458: The United States and Canada, and foreign which includes all other countries. Weekly box office figures are now normally taken to be from Friday through Thursday to allow for the fact that most films are officially released in the United States on a Friday. With Variety being published for many years every Wednesday, most weekly box office figures they reported from the 1920s to the 1990s were for

1404-457: The acting and direction were ok, that star ZaSu Pitts provided sufficient drawing power, but the play itself was flawed. The play had its premiere at the Royale Theatre on January 5, 1944. According to a columnist, there was some talk about Max Gordon scheduling his premiere of Ruth Gordon 's Over 21 on the same date Reud had reserved for Ramshackle Inn , but Reud later revealed he was

1458-526: The book being attributed to Crowley but with a recognized contribution by Adams). Adams was arrested three times in New York City for fortune telling , in 1911, 1914 and 1923. Although practicing astrology was not legal at that time, all the cases brought against her were unsuccessful. Her May 1914 trial was particularly notable due to the judge's acquittal "of all wrong doing" by Adams and praise of her skill, after she gave him an astrology reading describing

1512-416: The box office are called box-office bombs or box office flops. For a list of these films, see List of biggest box-office bombs . Inflation Adjustment There are two main methods of box office inflation. First, used by boxofficemojo and comscore, To adjust it for inflation (or see what it might have made in the past), the estimated number of tickets sold is multiplied by the average ticket price of

1566-400: The box office gross with the production budget , because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks. Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a "house allowance" or "house nut". It is also common that the distributor gets either

1620-456: The cast were replaced with new actors at this time. The producer then took the unusual step of having the revised production do a four-day tryout at Blair Junior High School auditorium in Norfolk, Virginia . This surprisingly large facility held an audience of up to nine hundred when the revised play debuted there on December 27, 1943. Local reviewer Warner Twyford was kind with the actors, but said of

1674-426: The character of his son from his birth data. Adams was well paid by her clients for her predictions. She was reputed to successfully predict changes in the stock market . However, author Carol Krismann noted that: Skeptics point out that Adams had no knowledge of economics and that her predictions were always fuzzy, foretelling disaster but not specific disasters, and telling that the market would go up when in fact

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1728-523: The focus of a film's performance became its box office gross rather than the rentals that Variety continued to report annually. Prior to the tracking of these grosses, domestic or worldwide box office grosses is not available for many earlier films so the only domestic or worldwide data available is still often the rental figures. Murphy started to publish Art Murphy's Box Office Register annually from 1984 detailing U.S. box office grosses. In 1984, EDI started to report Canadian grosses as well and by 1985

1782-479: The key cities in the U.S. in future and initially also reported results for 10 other cities including Chicago and Los Angeles. In 1929, the first issue of The Motion Picture Almanac was released and included a list of the top 104 grossing films for the past year. In 1932, Variety published the studios' top-grossing films of the year and has maintained this tradition annually since. In 1937, BoxOffice magazine]began publishing box office reports. Beginning in

1836-508: The number of tickets sold at the box office. In countries such as France, box office reporting was historically reported in terms of admissions, with rules regulated by the government and fines issued if exhibitors failed to report the data. Other countries which historically reported box office figures in terms of admissions include European countries such as Germany, Italy, and Spain, the Soviet Union , and South Korea. Box Office Mojo estimates

1890-434: The play: "It is not funny enough to be crackerjack comedy, it is not scary enough to be exciting melodrama, it is not mysterious enough to be a mystery". The production then went to Richmond for two more days of tryouts, having shed and acquired a supporting actor along the way. Once there, lead actress Luella Gear chose to depart, necessitating replacement Ruth Gates to go on with 24 hours notice. Both local reviewers felt

1944-509: The popular appeal of a comic farce. By the end of March 1944, Ramshackle Inn had reached its 100th performance, paid off all its production and tryout costs, and was still raking in between twelve and eighteen thousand dollars a week. The original Broadway run closed at the Royale on July 8, 1944, after 216 performances. Columnist Jack O'Brien ascribed the Broadway closing to "torridity". As soon as

1998-475: The previous owner so he can marry his sweetheart. George Batson, a former automat busboy then serving in the US Army Signal Corps , wrote the play in 1942 expressly for ZaSu Pitts . Robert Reud announced on October 21, 1943, that he would produce and Arthur Sircom direct ZaSu Pitts in the play. By October 29, 1943, Frederick Fox had been signed to design the sets. Producer Reud started rehearsals at

2052-714: The production closed in New York, it moved to Washington, D.C. for one week at the National Theatre starting July 10, 1944. This was an unusual summer opening at a time when most theaters had no air-conditioning. It then went to Chicago where it opened on July 17, 1944, at the Selwyn Theater. Ramshackle Inn was adapted to an hour-long teleplay for the Philco Television Playhouse , with ZaSu Pitts, Joe Downing, Ralph Theadore, and Robert Toms reprising their roles. It

2106-463: The production moved to Philadelphia, where it opened at the Walnut Theatre on December 6, 1943. The reviewer here was more critical of the play: "'Ramshackle Inn' is a rather ramshackle play, with its crazy quilt plot a farrago of odds and ends of wild melodrama and dizzy farce". The author "has hit upon a few amusing wisecracks. But they are not sufficient to make the play.... hang together or give it

2160-415: The public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop , through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket . By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry , as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or

2214-412: The rentals) with the remainder going to the exhibitor (i.e., movie theater). Multiple is the ratio of a film's total gross to that of the opening weekend. A film that earns $ 20 million on its opening weekend and finishes with $ 80 million has a multiple of 4. From 2004 to 2014, films viewers graded as A+ on CinemaScore had a 4.8 multiple, while films graded as F had a 2.2 multiple. Admissions refers to

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2268-634: The selected year. Second, Using CPI of respective country. Both methods have some flaws. I first, content of movies change over time, then number of ticket sold may increase or decreas. In second, ATP of movies increased exponentially in 1990s but CPI increased slower than ATP. A third method is also available, In which we can use APT of movies as CPI and adjust box office. There are numerous websites that monitor box-office receipts, such as BoxOffice , Box Office Mojo , The Numbers , Box Office India , and ShowBIZ Data . These sites provide box office information for hundreds of movies. Data for older movies

2322-535: The sole provider of worldwide box office ticket sales revenue and attendance information which is used by many of the websites noted above. On October 23, 2019, Box Office Mojo unveiled a dramatic redesign resembling IMDb, and was rebranded as "Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro" with some of the content move to the subscription based IMDbPro. US box office reporting largely paused for the first time in 26 years in March 2020, as nearly all theaters nationwide were closed because of

2376-462: The sustained excitement and tension necessary". After two weeks in Philadelphia, producer Reud announced the production would take a week off to rehearse new material provided by Owen Davis . The revised play replaced the original Nazi spies and saboteurs with a black market liquour-cutting racket. It also dropped one featured character, Mr. Cosgrove, and introduced another, Arbothnot. Six members of

2430-459: The theater chains, equating to just over a third of the gross being paid to the distributor of the film. As of 1997 , rental fees varied greatly, depending on a number of factors, with films from the major studios averaging 43% of gross receipts. Evangeline Adams Evangeline Smith Adams (February 8, 1868 – November 10, 1932) was an American astrologer based in New York City. She ran

2484-476: The thing funny with her in it". He also credited Pitts with carrying the whole show: "The dialogue has no spring in it whatever. Take away Miss Pitts and there is nothing". Lewis Nichols of The New York Times expressed the hope Miss Pitts might have a better vehicle in her next Broadway appearance. According to Nichols, "'Ramshackle Inn' quite often succeeds in being only sleepy when it means to be hair-raising, and silly when it means to be funny". John Chapman in

2538-553: The top 10 box office weekend lists from Exhibitor Relations and the company was also supplying box office data to companies such as the Los Angeles Times , CNN and the Associated Press . In 1994, Variety published their first annual global box office chart showing the top 100 grossing films internationally for the prior year. On August 7, 1998, Box Office Mojo was launched by Brandon Gray and in 1999 he started posting

2592-402: The week from Thursday to Wednesday. A large component of the weekly gross is the weekend box office. Historically, this was reported as the box office receipts around Friday through Sunday plus any public holidays close to the weekend, such as a 4-day Memorial Day weekend, however, with the increased regularity of reporting of box office figures, a comparable 3-day figure for the Friday to Sunday

2646-417: The year of reference." Box-office figures are reported in the form of either gross receipts or distributor rentals, the latter being especially true of older films. Commonly mistaken for home video revenue, the rentals are the distributor's share of the film's theatrical revenue i.e. the box office gross less the exhibitor's cut. Historically, the rental price averaged at 30–40% when the distributors owned

2700-430: The year. In the late 1960s, Variety used an IBM 360 computer to collate the grosses from their weekly reports of 22 to 24 U.S. cities from January 1, 1968. The data came from up to 800 theatres which represented around 5% of the U.S. cinema population at the time but around one-third of the total U.S. box office grosses. In 1969, Variety started to publish a list of the top 50 grossing films each week. The Love Bug

2754-701: Was being used from at least 1741, deriving from the office from which tickets for theatre boxes were sold (although the use of "box" for a private section from which to watch the play was in use in 1609); this is the derivation favoured by the Oxford English Dictionary . Total ticket sales were being termed box office from at least 1904. The following is film industry specific terminology used by box office reporters such as Variety and Box Office Mojo . For films released in North America, box office figures are usually divided between domestic, meaning

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2808-404: Was broadcast live on January 2, 1949, and featured Nancy Davis as Mary Temple, Vivian Vance as Joyce Rogers, Gordon Peters as Constable Small, with Lewis Charles, Richard Bishop, Michael Lawson, Joseph Sweeny, and Don De Leo. Recorded on kinescope, it was later rebroadcast on local television stations. Box office A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to

2862-434: Was reporting data for 15,000 screens. In 1987, EDI set up a database of box office information which included data on certain films back to 1970. By 1991, all U.S. studios had agreed to share their complete data reports with EDI. By then box office results were publicized, with Entertainment Tonight segments on the weekend's top films, increasing public discussion of poorly performing films. In 1990, EDI opened an office in

2916-454: Was the number one on the first chart published for the week ending April 16, 1969. The chart was discontinued in 1990. In 1974, Nat Fellman founded Exhibitor Relations Co., the first company set up to track box office grosses, which it collected from the studios. Two years later, Marcy Polier, an employee of the Mann theater chain, set up Centralized Grosses to collate U.S. daily box office data on

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