Movies Browser

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 biggest 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 its genre.

It is demonstrated that the increase in budget for action movies is twice as high as that for other genres.

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.

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

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

Whereas the budget of low-rated movies was significantly lower in former years the figures illustrate that in the last two decades the budget of low-rated movies (rating: 0-5) has increased significantly and nearly reached that of high-rated movies (rating: 5-10).