Movie Box Office Lookup

Look up box office performance data for any film — production budget, opening weekend, domestic and worldwide gross, ROI, and profit/loss — sourced directly from Box Office Mojo. Search by title or IMDb ID. No API keys. No proxies. Bulk lookups in seconds.

Built for film industry analysts, entertainment journalists, investors, production companies, and anyone who needs structured, machine-readable box office data at scale.

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What data does Movie Box Office Lookup extract?

Film info	Financial performance	Additional details
📝 Film title	💰 Production budget	🎬 Distributor
📅 Release year	🎟️ Opening weekend gross	🔞 MPAA rating
🔗 IMDb ID	🏠 Domestic lifetime gross	⏱️ Runtime
—	🌍 International gross	—
—	🌐 Worldwide gross	—
—	📊 ROI (worldwide ÷ budget)	—
—	💹 Profit/loss	—

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What can I do with box office data?

Film benchmarking

Before distribution deals or investment decisions, compare the performance of comparable films by title. Pull ROI, opening weekend, and total gross for a slate of films in the same genre or budget range in one run.

Investment and financial analysis

Structure budget-to-gross data for any number of films to analyse return profiles by genre, studio, release window, or budget tier. Pre-calculated roi and profitLoss fields are ready for export to Excel or any BI tool.

Slate and portfolio analysis

Look up an entire studio slate or distributor portfolio at once. Export to CSV and pivot by distributor, year, or MPAA rating.

Journalism and editorial

Pull structured financials for any films mentioned in a story without manually looking up each title on Box Office Mojo.

Award season due diligence

Cross-reference commercial performance with critical reception for films on the awards circuit — linkable to review aggregators by imdbId.

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Why use Movie Box Office Lookup instead of alternatives?

Feature	Manual Box Office Mojo / The Numbers	Movie Box Office Lookup
Bulk lookup	One film at a time	Any number of films in one run
IMDb ID support	URL navigation only	Direct input, no search needed
Export formats	Web UI only	JSON, CSV, Excel
ROI calculation	Manual	Pre-calculated in output
Scheduling	Not available	Apify Scheduler + webhooks
API key required	No	No

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How to use Movie Box Office Lookup

1. Enter film titles in the Movies field — one per line
2. Include the year to avoid ambiguity for common titles: Barbie 2023, Batman 1989
3. Or use IMDb IDs directly: tt0816692
4. Click Start

No modes, no configuration, no API keys.

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How much will it cost?

Movie Box Office Lookup uses CheerioCrawler for lightweight HTTP scraping — no browser rendering required.

Typical costs:

• 10 films: < $0.01
• 100 films: < $0.05

Cost tips:

• Use IMDb IDs directly to skip the title search step and reduce cost slightly
• Title lookups use IMDb's public autocomplete API — no extra proxy needed

See the Apify pricing page for full pricing details.

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How does Movie Box Office Lookup work?

1. Title resolution — for each film title, the actor queries IMDb's public autocomplete JSON API to find the corresponding IMDb ID. Numeric tt IDs skip this step.
2. Box Office Mojo lookup — using the IMDb ID, the actor navigates directly to the film's Box Office Mojo page.
3. Data extraction — CheerioCrawler parses the page HTML to extract budget, gross figures, distributor, runtime, and MPAA rating.
4. ROI calculation — roi (worldwide gross ÷ production budget) and profitLoss (worldwide gross − production budget) are calculated and included in the output.

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Input

Input examples

By title (recommended):

Interstellar
The Dark Knight
Barbie 2023
Oppenheimer
Titanic 1997

By IMDb ID (skip search, go directly to the title page):

tt0816692
tt0468569
tt1517268

Mixed:

Interstellar
tt0468569
Barbie 2023

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Output fields

Field	Description
title	Film title
year	Release year
imdbId	IMDb title ID, e.g. tt0816692
releaseDate	Earliest release date
distributor	Domestic distributor
mpaaRating	MPAA rating (G, PG, PG-13, R)
runtime	Film runtime
productionBudget	Reported or estimated production budget (USD)
openingWeekend	Domestic opening weekend gross (USD)
domesticGross	Total domestic lifetime gross (USD)
internationalGross	Total international lifetime gross (USD)
worldwideGross	Total worldwide lifetime gross (USD)
roi	Worldwide gross ÷ production budget
profitLoss	Worldwide gross − production budget (USD)

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Notes on the data

Production budget — Budget figures come from studio announcements or trade press reports. Not all films have publicly confirmed budgets — productionBudget will be null for films without a published figure, which is common for smaller, independent, or streaming-first releases.

Profit/loss — The profitLoss field is worldwide gross minus production budget only. It does not include theatrical marketing and P&A costs (typically $30–150M for wide releases), distribution fees, or talent participations. Use as a directional indicator, not an accounting statement.

Title matching — When searching by title, the actor takes the most relevant result from IMDb's autocomplete. Including the year (e.g. Batman 1989) ensures the correct version is selected when multiple films share a title.

International gross — When not directly available, derived as worldwide minus domestic.

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Frequently asked questions

Where does the data come from? All data is scraped from Box Office Mojo (boxofficemojo.com), the industry-standard source for domestic theatrical box office data, owned by IMDb.

Where do I find an IMDb ID? Go to any film's page at imdb.com — the ID is in the URL: imdb.com/title/tt0816692/. The tt prefix and the digits that follow are the ID.

Why is the budget sometimes missing? Many films, particularly independent releases and streaming-first titles, do not have publicly confirmed production budgets. Box Office Mojo only lists a budget when a figure has been reported by the studio or a credible trade publication.

Does this cover international box office by territory? No. This returns worldwide total and domestic total. International is derived as the difference. Per-territory breakdowns are not available from the data source used.

Can I look up older films? Yes. Box Office Mojo's coverage extends back to the 1980s for major releases, and earlier for some titles.

Can I export the results to Excel? Yes. Once the run finishes, click Export in the dataset view and choose CSV, JSON, or Excel.

Can I use Movie Box Office Lookup via the Apify API? Yes. Use the Run Actor endpoint with your actor ID and input JSON. Results are available in the dataset as soon as the run completes.

Can I use Movie Box Office Lookup through an MCP Server? Yes. Via the Apify MCP server, you can call this actor from any MCP-compatible AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to look up box office data in real time from a conversation.

Is scraping Box Office Mojo legal? Box Office Mojo publishes this data publicly on their website. Scraping publicly available data is generally permitted under major jurisdictions. This actor uses the same data any browser accesses when visiting boxofficemojo.com.

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Changelog

2026-03-09 — v0.2.2

• Replaced BOM search page (JS-rendered, unreliable from datacenter IPs) with IMDb's public autocomplete JSON API for title resolution
• Title queries now resolve to an IMDb ID first, then go directly to the BOM title page — no proxies required

2026-03-09 — v0.2.1

• Fixed search: removed manual User-Agent headers that were interfering with Crawlee's browser fingerprint generator, causing Box Office Mojo to return stripped HTML
• Strip year from search query sent to BOM (year retained for result matching only)

2026-03-09 — v0.2.0

• Simplified to single mode: search by film title or IMDb ID
• Title search: automatically finds the correct Box Office Mojo page, with year-based disambiguation
• Removed chart mode (weekend/weekly rankings) — cleaner, focused actor
• Removed all configuration fields — just a list of films

2026-03-09 — v0.1.0

• Initial release (chart + movie modes)

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