Box-Office Coverage: The Complete USA Times Index

USA Times covers the American box office through a single proprietary lens: the Star Index, which measures not what films earn but how completely they come to own a week of moviegoing. This page is the complete index of that reporting — every analysis, record, and explainer, organized so you can start anywhere. New entries are added as we publish them.

The index & how it works

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Records & the rarest weeks

• The Second-Weekend Cliff: Does the Box Office Fall by the Golden Ratio?
• The 38.2% Club: The ‘Betelgeuses’ That Run the Box Office
• The Decade Shift: How the Box Office Became Winner-Take-All
• When the Rules Broke: The Pandemic Movies That Owned an Empty Box Office
• The Weeks Nobody Won: How the Shared Box Office Disappeared
• The Efficiency Champions: How Cheap Horror Owns the Box Office
• The Marathoners: The Films That Owned the Box Office the Longest
• The Betelgeuse-Betelgeuse Week Has Happened Once in Twenty Years. Our Editor-in-Chief Bets December 18 Won't Be the Second.
• The Box-Office Calendar: The Months Movies Take Over, and the Dead Zones Nobody Wants
• The Billion-Dollar Club, Ranked: Every Star Movie That Crossed the Line
• One-Week Wonders: The Box Office’s Shooting Stars
• The 10 Most Dominant Weeks in 20 Years of American Moviegoing
• Holding the Throne: The Films That Stayed a Box-Office Geuse Two Weeks Running (2006–2026)

IMAX & film formats

• IMAX at Home: Every Film That Opens Up to the Expanded Frame — and Why It’s Never the Real 1.43
• The 630-Pound Movie: The Absurd Logistics of Showing ‘The Odyssey’ in 70mm IMAX
• The IMAX Passport: 55 of the Last 58 Box-Office Geuses Opened on the Giant Screen (2006–2026)
• 1,089 of IMAX's Screens Still Run on 2008 Technology. Only 63 Can Show the Format's Full Frame.
• IMAX Just Had Its Best Q2 Installation Quarter in a Decade. Its Backlog Grew Anyway.
• The National Average Movie Ticket Is $10.75. IMAX Routinely Charges Double That in New York and LA.
• IMAX Aspect Ratios, Explained: 1.43:1 vs 1.90:1 — and How to Tell What You’re Really Getting
• IMAX's Flagship Screen Runs on Two Lasers, Not One. Here's What "GT Laser" Actually Buys You.
• IMAX Signed 28% More New Theaters in 2025. Its Backlog Shrank Anyway — Because It's Building Faster Than It's Selling.
• Every Screen on Earth That Can Show The Odyssey in True IMAX 70mm — All 41 of Them
• Every 70mm Odyssey Show on Sale at America's Biggest IMAX Screen Is Sold Out
• The 1% of Screens That Now Rule the Box Office: How IMAX Won the Post-Streaming Era
• Britain’s Biggest Screen Is Selling Out Back to Front: We Checked All 159 Shows — and Every Seat Map — for ‘The Odyssey’
• Every True IMAX 1.43:1 Theatre in the World
• 39 Films in 1.43

The business & the craft

• You Can Never Have Four: The Hidden Math That Governs the Box Office
• One Movie, Most of the Money: How Total Box-Office Domination Went From Exception to Norm (2006–2026)
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• Wikipedia Credits a 1982 Bollywood Film With Nearly Double Sholay's Gross. Its Citations Are About Completely Different Movies.
• Box Office Tracker: "Minions & Monsters" mantém o 1º lugar e "Michael" ultrapassa US$ 371 mi sem alarde
• Box Office Tracker: "Minions & Monsters" Holds No. 1, "Michael" Quietly Crosses $371M
• The Secret in Our Stars: The Golden-Ratio Math Hidden in the USA Times Logo

Every figure is traceable to a primary source and reviewed against the original weekly charts before publication. See our methodology for definitions, data sources, and limitations.