new_contents: """
  This collection of functions scrapes Box Office Returns at the
  weekly, weekend, and daily levels from a film's page on Box Office Mojo.
  
  Last Edit: March, 2017
  """
  
  import requests
  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  import re
  import dateutil.parser
  from string import ascii_uppercase
  import pandas as pd
  # import pickle
  import time
  import urllib.request
  import csv
  
  import requests
  sess = requests.Session()
  adapter = requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(max_retries=10)
  sess.mount('http://', adapter)
  
subject: initialize file for storing functions that scrape movie box office