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Should fans be concerned about box office numbers and watch movie reviews before watching a film?

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If you wanted to estimate the number of people watching a certain film, the most obvious way to go about the task is to count all the tickets sold in the box office. This can be done without any qualms for a stage show. Just add up the receipts and you have the exact estimate. But for a major motion picture release that is playing in 3000 screens all over the world, things get a bit complex. Here, the theatre owner calculates the cash he received and reports all this to the distributor. The distributor receives this information from all the theatres he has distributed the film. This distributor provides all the cumulative information to the studio which produced the said film. In accordance to the integrity of the film’s production house, the  moolah  is either inflated or told as it is.  Some online trackers are paid for this job. They’re paid to predict the box office numbers and post it through their twitter handles which generates an interest to watch the film. If a m