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Box Office Reports

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Written by Josh Senior
Updated over 3 weeks ago

The Box Office Reports section in IndyAdmin lets you review and manage the weekly financial breakdowns of film performance—helping you fulfill reporting obligations to studios and track your rental terms, gross sales, and payments across all your locations.


🎬 Where to Find It

Navigate to:

OperationsStudio ReportingBox Office Reports


📊 What Box Office Reports Do

  • Automatically or manually generate reports for films once they’re scheduled and assigned a studio

  • Reports are created per film, per play week

  • You can configure reports to:

    • Send automatically at the end of each film week

    • Be reviewed and sent manually

📅 Play week dates vary by region:

  • UK & US: Friday–Thursday

  • Australia & NZ: Thursday–Wednesday


🔍 Searching & Filtering

  • Use the search bar to locate titles

  • Use "Edit Dates" to:

    • Change the play week range for a movie (e.g. adjust for previews)

    • Avoid overlapping box office periods

    • Set custom date ranges for non-standard bookings


⚙️ Report Detail View

Click into any report line to view or edit:

Header Info:

  • Start and end date of the play week

  • Movie terms (automatically pulled from your settings)

  • Flat fee toggle (for non-percentage rentals)

  • Minimum guarantee field

  • Retention fee

Invoice Section:

  • Input invoice number, date, and amount

  • Track whether the invoice has been paid

  • View calculated figures:

    • Gross sales

    • Rental % and amount due to the studio

    • Total and remaining due

Internal Notes:

  • Add private notes (not visible to studios)

  • Ideal for finance team or film booker notes


📤 Actions You Can Take

  • Force Recompute: Refresh the sales totals manually

  • Send Email B.O.R.: Email the report directly to the studio

  • Send Email B.O.R. Summary: Multi-site summary version for chains

  • Submit SWIFT: Submit to ComScore/RenTrack (if used)

  • View Report: Open the full report inside Indy Admin


🎟️ Related Showings and Settlements

  • Linked showings appear at the bottom of the page

  • You can:

    • View individual showing data

    • Recompute metrics

    • Export attendance lists (as per the Showings feature)


🧠 Pro Tip

Use Box Office Reports weekly to stay aligned with your distribution agreements and streamline your financial reconciliation.

Watch the Tutorial

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