Box Office Analysis: Seeing Movie Business Through Data

Source: www.imperialtheatre.com Though we usually strive to focus on specific areas or a niche zone for in depth analysis, this time wanted to direct your attention towards a bigger picture. We believe that talking about this particular topic would help you to understand many of our future analysis, and also gives us a way to introduce you to the idea that on-the-surface stats are rarely descriptive enough to understand the situations. Today, we are going to show you a little bit of how movies have been doing over the years since records have been kept, or rather, records that IMDB has. For our analysis, we have used the list of movies in IMDB’s records till the end of 2016. Though the original dataset has 5043 movies, we had to remove duplicate entries, and even remove movies that had insufficient information and would not contribute well to our analysis. Even though there are many different categorizing levels for genres, we decided to use only a handful of primary level g...

This dynamic actor has played more than a few strange and complex roles. Welcome to Box Office Analysis, and today we’ll be counting down our top 5 favorite  Johnny Depp  performances. 1. Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Dead-Mans-Chest Taking the top spot on our list is the role that Depp was born to play. With inspiration from    ‘Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards, Depp gives life to this ethical swashbuckler who depends on his wit rather than force. No matter how bad the sequels get, it’s Depp’s lovable, outrageous and relaxed Captain Jack Sparrow that keeps raking in the doubloons. Theatrical Performance Domestic Box Office $423,315,812 International Box Office $642,900,000 Worldwide Box Office $1,066,215,812 Home Market Performance Est. Domestic DVD Sales $320,862,526 Est. Domestic Blu-ray Sales $5,137,925 Total Est. Domestic Video Sales $326,000,451 Leading Cast Johnny Depp    Captain J...