: How would I cite a statistical report put out by a company in MLA? I would like to cite MPAA-Theatrical-Market-Statistics-2016 in MLA. Is it one of the following? Book* Digital Image Film / Online

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Please learn how to use the internet to find information.

If you had taken the moment to delete all the options that clearly do not fit (it is not a film, not published by the government ["federal"], not a court case, not software, etc.), you would have been left with the following three options:

Other
Miscellaneous
Report

If you had done the obvious and tried to find some information on this publication, for example through an internet search, you would have read the phrase "Theatrical Market Statistics report" over and over in different sources.
If you had done your job and read the publication, you would have been told that it is a report (see the answer by Boondoggle).
If you had looked at where the publication is published, you would have read the website title "Research & Reports".

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It's a report.

It even says so on page 3:

"As the 2016 Theatrical Market Statistics Report confirms, yet again, movies continue to play a vital
role in our lives and our cultures. Around the world, storytelling – and the movie-going experience
that brings great stories to life – is very much alive and well."

It's also a website. An MLA formatting style guide can be found on mtroyal.ca. The prefix at the start of the URL has to be dropped.

Because there is a publication date in the URL you could cite it like this:

Theatrical market statistics 2016. Motion Picture Association of America, Mar. 2017, mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MPAA-Theatrical-Market-Statistics-2016_Final.pdf.

Source: mtroyal D3:

When there is no publication date you could cite it like this:

"Theatrical market statistics 2016." Motion Picture Association of America, mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MPAA-Theatrical-Market-Statistics-2016_Final.pdf. Accessed 24 Jan. 2018.

Source: mtroyal D2

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