Movies Explorer

Axel Schwanke
2015-08-21

An Application to explore the development of movie budgets between 1900 and 2005

Overview

The movies database (ggplot2 package) contains information and user ratings of nearly 60000 movies from the internet movie database (IMDB.com). It is one of the largest searchable movie database on the web and is run by amazon.

This application illustrates the development of movie budget between the years 1900 and 2005 dependent on the movie release data (year), its rating and genre.

It is demonstrated that the increase in budget for action movies is twice as high as that for other genres. And it is shown the the budget has become less dependent of the movie rating. Nowadays low-rated movies require about the same budget as high-rated movies.

Budget of movies from 1900 to 2005

The following figure shows the increase of movie budget.
It illustrates the strong increase over the last 20 years.

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Different genres from 1900 to 2005

For all movie genres the budget increases significantly. The increase for action movies is about twice as high as for other genre movies

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Low- vs.high-rated from 1950 to 2005

In the last two decades the budget of low-rated movies has increased significantly and nearly reached that of high-rated movies.

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