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List Of Box Office Bombs
In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box office bomb (or box office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it. Due to the secrecy surrounding costs and profit margins in the film industry, figures of losses are usually rough estimates at best, and there are often conflicting estimates over how much a film has lost. To accommodate this uncertainty, the losses are presented as ranges where this is the case, and the list is ordered alphabetically in the absence of a definitive order. Because the films on the list have been released over a large span of time, currency inflation is a material factor, so losses are adjusted for inflation using the United States Consumer Price Index to enable comparison at equivalent purchasing power. Some films on this list grossed more than their production budgets yet are still regarded as flops. This can be d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliability
Reliability, reliable, or unreliable may refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Computing * Data reliability (other), a property of some disk arrays in computer storage * High availability * Reliability (computer networking), a category used to describe protocols * Reliability (semiconductor), outline of semiconductor device reliability drivers Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics * Reliability (statistics), the overall consistency of a measure * Reliability engineering, concerned with the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified time ** High reliability is informally reported in " nines" ** Human reliability in engineered systems * Reliability theory, as a theoretical concept, to explain biological aging and species longevity Other uses * Reliabilism, in philosophy and epistemology. * Unreliable narrator An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility is compromised. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |