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So the studios keep no statistics except of course for counting box office.
因此，自然除了要計算票房之外，其它的都不作統計。
Even films that ultimately go on to make a lot of money at the box office — like 2009’s Precious — often start out in only a few cities.
甚至一些電影通常衹是在少數的城市上映，最終仍然在票房上旺收，2009年的電影《珍愛》就是一個很好的例子。
But the French had cause for celebration this summer when the nostalgic movie "Amelie" took more at the French box office than "Pearl Harbour" and "The Mummy Returns".
今年夏天，法國懷舊影片《艾米麗》在其本土的票房成勣超過了好萊隖大片《珍珠港》和《木迺伊Ⅱ》，這可值得法國好好慶祝一番。
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Flashdance became the third highest box office hit of the year, earning more than ninety million dollars in the United States alone.
In recent years, Comic-Con has helped launch films such as Iron Man and Avatar to tremendous box office success.
Avatar,the biggest box office success in history, has opened the door for 3-D TV.

In addition to disappointing box office turnout, the Redford-directed flick earned largely negative reviews.
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The box office in a theatre or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
When people talk about the box office, they are referring to the degree of success of a film or play in terms of the number of people who go to watch it or the amount of money it makes.