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Boxoffice Pro is a film industry magazine dedicated to the movie theatre business, published for theatre owners and film professionals. It is the official publication of the National Association of Theatre Owners, a role it has held since 2006.
Boxoffice Pro began publishing in 1920 under the name The Reel Journal. It took the name Boxoffice in 1931 and became Boxoffice Pro in 2019.
Boxoffice Pro ended its publication of movie reviews in 2012. It had begun publishing box office reports in 1937, decades before it stopped running reviews.
Boxoffice Pro is published by The Boxoffice Company, a unit of the French group Webedia, through BoxOffice Media LP. Webedia acquired the magazine, then known as Boxoffice, in 2015.
The Barometer issue is a special edition Boxoffice Pro publishes every January, reviewing how movies performed across the previous year. It relates to the magazine's practice of measuring box office performance as a percentage of normal business, with 100 percent representing an average week.
Boxoffice Pro was originally published every Saturday by Associated Publications. That weekly Saturday schedule applied to the magazine's early years under its earlier names.