Why do you care about box office grosses?

With movie making being a business and all, the ultimate industry evaluation of a film is its financial success or failure. I am free to judge by artistic or entertainment measures. Sometimes the two correspond and sometimes theey don’t. I certainly don’t obsess over receipt numbers, but they are publicized and talked about. What’s “in it for me” is that movies that make bank spawn more movies like them, and good movies that taank take down similar future films with them. Thus, a look at the money lists gives you a rough preview of the next few years of theater offerings.