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What is the budget for each film listed? Although this question seems relatively straightforward, I feel it would be quite interesting to compare each film's budget with their total domestic gross, especially to see if their is a disparity between a film's popularity and profitability.
For example, let's say their are two films called Movie A and Movie B. Movie A was made on $2,000,000 budget and made $4,000,000 at the box office. Movie B was made on a $30,000,000 budget and made $20,000,000 at the box office. While Movie B technically made more money than Movie A, Movie A actually made a profit.
How would you get the data?
I can think of at least three different ways to find the budget for each film. Firstly, I can simply google something along the lines of, "budget of highest grossing films from 1997-2017." Secondly, I could click on the link for each film in the original dataset and look at that film's budget. Thirdly, I could email Box Office Mojo and ask if they have a list of each film's budget.
I think that your chart is very clear and that is visualizes your point effectively, however, I'm not sure if it's a big discovery. The Star Wars films have always been wildly successful and most people would be able to figure that they'd be at the top. I also wonder about your question because although I agree it's something to think about and important to find out which movies were actually the most profitable, I don't think the information would be that difficult to find. I think a more interesting looking and seeing if there is a correlation between movie releases and the most profitable movies and seeing if there is a specific month where more of the most popular movies are released.
ReplyDeleteWhile your chart is clear and illustrates your point, the success of the Star Wars franchise (and many of the other franchises on your list) is already quite well-known. I think your question was interesting though as budget and profit does have an impact on film franchises and if they continue to be produced. It could also be interesting to look at release dates to see if that has any impact or correlation with the box office success.
ReplyDeleteYour chart is very neat and clear to read, however; maybe a colour scheme would be more eye catching then using just green? Not being such a huge star wars fan, this seems super interesting to me how they beat some good movies!
ReplyDeleteYour chart and heading do a great job in showing your main point, but perhaps doing something to make the Star Wars movies stand out on your chart (say a different colour) would improve an already good visualization. Your question is interesting because the editing and effects on a film like Star Wars costs a lot of money, so seeing how much they actually profit would be cool to find out.
ReplyDeleteYour chart is easy to understand, however, I have a hard time drawing a meaningful conclusion beyond "Star Wars is popular." I think looking at film budgets is a great way to find a more informative analysis, as you demonstrated in your unanswered question section. You can look at both total profit (instead of just revenue, as you showed) and also profit percentage, as cheap films like Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity have demonstrated a film doesn't have to be expensive to make money.
ReplyDeleteHello Jared,
ReplyDeleteGreat visualization of your data.
In addition to the questions you pose, I wonder if you will be still looking into the inflation rate of the highest grossing films?
If yes, a comparison between older films and newer films would be interesting to see.