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List of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada

The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada, a market known in the US film industry as the "North American box office" and the "domestic box office",[1][2] where "gross" is defined in US dollars.

Box office gross on initial release

Ticket price at time of release, or its relative price to other commodities in a given year, in relation to general inflation and gross domestic product.[12]

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economic conditions that may help or hurt the entertainment industry as a whole (theaters in 2008 lowered ticket prices to attract more viewers though the average ticket cost $7.00)

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at time of release—to be used to calculate:

Population

Availability of films (number of theaters and screens, number of prints)

Competition of other media (, internet, home video, film piracy)[10]

television

Total number of films in the marketplace at a given time

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(no influence on U.S. box office)

Screen quotas

Price differences: matinee and evening tickets, roadshow tickets,[13] or difference between rural and urban cinemas[12]

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Length of release (number of weeks)

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. The Numbers'. Retrieved June 16, 2012.

"All Time North American Domestic Top 20"

. Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved June 16, 2012.

"All-Time Box Office: USA"