Box Office Data

The Accountant is a present film that has already come out and is immensely popular. It is rated a 7.7 out of 10, this evidently proves that it is a mainstream film. Over the weekend it was released it made $24.71M and the lifetime gross amount is $70.86M this support the fact that the film is mainstream instead of niche. Furthermore, as it is a present film it shows that the population like both the old thrillers and the present day thrillers and this therefore gives us a positive outlook on our target audience.

From box office mojo we can establish that thriller-serial killer films tend to have a high lifetime gross. For example Hannibal (2/9/01) has a lifetime gross of $165,092,268, this shows that thriller-serial killer films are mainstream and have a pattern of earning an enormous amount of money. Furthermore, as the films are quite old it does not give us a good understanding on present thrillers and the target audiences.

The film Psycho was made in 1960 and is classed as a Horror/Mystery/Thriller film. Its IMDB rating is 8.5 out of 10 so therefore it is immensely popular this is also evidently as it is rated 34 out of 250 of the best top rated films. This connotes that the film psycho is mainstream as many people believe it to be good and it has a high rating. The budget for psycho was only $806,947 however in America alone it has made $32M which signifies its popularity and that people enjoy watching Crime Thrillers. Furthermore, it made $50M worldwide which is an enormous amount especially when it had a $806,947 budget.

The Departed is a present film with a genre of Crime/Drama/Thriller. Its IMDB rating is 8.5 out of 10 therefore it is a mainstream film and shows that there is a target audience for thriller films. The budget for The Departed was $90M which is a vast amount of money for a film. In the opening weekend The Departed made $2M in the UK only. However the lifetime gross was $132M which evidently proves that it is a good film and that people like to watch Crime/Thriller movies.