Theater Box-Office Revenue Simulator

Box-Office Controls

Ticket price $45

Weekly marketing spend $1,500

Production quality 6 / 10

This Week

Week 0 / 16— % full

Seats sold

0 / 240

Weekly profit

Word-of-mouth buzz

Season profit

Weekly Profit (last 16)

How it works

Each week, demand is a classic price-elasticity curve modified by marketing and by a self-reinforcing word-of-mouth "buzz" term — this is a real feedback loop, not a lookup table:

occupancy = clamp( base(quality) × adBoost(marketing) × (1+0.4·buzz) × (P/P0)^-e , 0, 1 )
base(quality)  = 0.22 + 0.05·quality        (production value sets the floor)
adBoost(spend) = 1 + 0.6·(1 - e^(-spend/1500))   (diminishing returns on ads)
P0 = $45 reference price,  e = 1.3 price elasticity of demand
buzz(t+1) = 0.85·buzz(t) + 0.15  if occupancy > 0.8
          = 0.85·buzz(t) - 0.05  if occupancy < 0.4   (else unchanged)

Seats sold = round(occupancy × 240 capacity). Weekly profit = seats_sold × price − marketing spend − $3,200 fixed overhead (venue, staff, insurance). A season runs 16 weeks; raising price too far chokes demand faster than it grows revenue per seat, while too low a price fills the house but caps total take — the sweet spot moves with quality and buzz.

Run Week — commits the current sliders as this week's plan, computes occupancy with a small random draw for realism, and fills the 3D house seat by seat.
Auto-run — plays through remaining weeks automatically at the current settings.
Reset Season — clears buzz, week counter and season profit back to a fresh 16-week run.

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