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...

The (lack of) prevalence of women on the film set has been a topic of much debate. While the movie business has been making progress in the right direction on this account, true gender equality is still some way off. This blog is inspired by some articles which claim to observe some interesting parallels between a movie’s lead gender and its success at the box office. Female-led films outperform at box office , Films with female stars earn more , and  Movies Starring Women Make More Money are just some of the headlines that have spawned in this study’s wake. This blog post reports our findings concerning the casting of females in movies. Here, we considered movies released between 2014 and 2017 inclusive. The 541 movies were labeled with the lead character’s gender. We created three separate categories: male-led, female-led, and movies with neither a clear male or female lead. This last category mainly encompasses movies having an ensemble cast containing both actors and actre...