film-box-office-comparison

Film box-office comparison

Access and scope

Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY to your Crawlora key. Prefer the listed Crawlora MCP tools when connected; otherwise use the bundled scripts/crawlora.sh, which sends x-api-key to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Read reference/endpoints.md for exact methods and parameters. Check application code as well as HTTP status; payloads are inside data. Stop on authentication errors, back off on 429, and retry a transient upstream failure once. Bound calls/pages by the requested scope and credit budget. Retain source IDs, URLs, source dates, and observation/crawl times separately.

Compare theatrical performance for a selected film set, release window, market, franchise, or genre. Define the comparison basis before retrieving data: weekend/year versus lifetime, original run versus reissues, and reported estimates versus updated figures are different measures.

Resolve titles, release groups, and source scope

• Discover stored franchise/brand/genre/year facets before exact dataset filters. Hydrated records can include release groups and market tables; missing hydration or fields are coverage gaps, not zero gross. Store the source/crawl date.
• Dataset title IDs use the IMDb-style tt… namespace also used on Box Office Mojo title pages. A release (rl…) or release-group (gr…) ID is a different entity. Copy returned links/IDs before the corresponding live detail route; routes accepting id/path/url require exactly one of those alternatives.
• Keep each title's original run, rereleases, release groups, and geographic markets separate. A lifetime title figure can already include multiple runs; adding release-group figures to it double counts revenue. Similar titles and franchise branding do not establish the same film or release.
• Weekend endpoints use the site's year/week and returned date range, not a presumed ISO-week conversion. Keep weekend estimates separate from finalized observations and use the same collection cutoff. Annual charts measure that chart's year/basis; they are not interchangeable with lifetime rank/year records.

scripts/crawlora.sh /datasets/boxofficemojo/facets facet=genre_names
scripts/crawlora.sh /datasets/boxofficemojo/search q="science fiction" hydrated=true page=1 page_size=10
scripts/crawlora.sh /boxofficemojo/weekend/domestic year=2025 week=52
# Follow returned title/release IDs before fetching their detail.

Compare equivalent grosses

Keep raw currency labels, numeric units, territories, dates, and reissue scope. Dataset gross amounts are whole reported USD dollars; do not treat them as cents or apply currency/inflation conversion without sourced assumptions. Nominal figures across decades do not establish inflation-adjusted performance.

Where compatible figures are available, compute domestic share as domestic / worldwide and international share as international / worldwide, with nonzero denominators and matching dates/runs. Worldwide already includes its geographic components: do not add domestic to worldwide. If totals differ by reporting cutoff, show the discrepancy rather than forcing shares to sum to one. A weekend drop requires consecutive comparable weekend figures for the same run, not an estimate paired with an unrelated release's finalized figure.

Return an identity/release ledger and comparison table with scope, dates, sources, grosses, formulas, coverage, and missing fields. Theatrical gross is not studio net revenue or profit; budgets alone do not provide marketing, distribution, exhibitor splits, financing, or other revenue/costs. Do not infer ROI or production investment merit from incomplete cost data, chart ranks, or an observed genre sample.