# How do they tabulate weekend movie grosses?

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**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-tabulate-weekend-movie-grosses/446643 "2008-04-24T04:27:16Z")\
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I often hear late Sunday news reports (I live on the West Coast) mention that weekend’s movie grosses. How do they calculate these numbers so quickly? Who actually does the calculations? What do they define the “weekend” as?