Explore data on over 1200 major Hollywood films of the last ten years.

Click on the axis labels to view other data. View each year by itself. Or every single year at once. Colour by genre, script type and more. Oh you’ll get it. Just have a play!

N.B. 250% of budget is considered the breakeven for Hollywood films due to the high costs of marketing (sometimes as much as twice the budget).

Concept & Design: David McCandless // Research: Dr Stephanie Starling, Ella Hollowood, Pearl Doughty-White // Code: Tom Evans, Paul Barton, Neil Muralee. Codebase: VizSweet



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