Sentence examples for gross takings from inspiring English sources

Gross takings in the six weeks to January 4 rose to £111.1m, from £91.6m a year earlier.

Its 15,000 terminals process 2.5 billion online real-time operations a year.Predictably, the biggest winner has been the taxman, who collects a large share of gross takings.

Tim Smith, managing director of Prescience Film Finance, whose Aegis Film Fund is the largest single funder of the production, said: "You'd expect 20-25% of the gross takings to go back into the profit share for a movie – and that is roughly split between the backers and producers, directors and actors".

Universal has now had the top two films of 2013 at UK cinemas: Les Miserables (£40.66m) and Despicable Me 2. Ignoring previews and going solely by gross takings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, The Conjuring is the top film on current release, with £2.16m – compared with £1.77m for The Smurfs 2. The last significant horror film on release was The Purge, which opened in late May with £1.02m.

"So we've lost our margin on whatever takings we would have had and I would say we are 40% down on gross takings.

Justin Bieber's second documentary, Believe, the follow up to Never Say Never, only took $3m in its first few days of opening in December, a tiny percentage of Never Say Never's gross takings.

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Despite dropping 45% from the previous weekend, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 had no problem holding on to the UK top spot, with second session takings of £3.37m and a gross to date of £16.54m.

The film grossed over $102 million in North America, and over $76 million in the rest of the world, totalling the film's worldwide takings at just over $179 million, grossing over double its budget of $78 million.

The weekend delivered the lowest overall grosses of the past year, with no film achieving takings in excess of £1m.