Institutional ResearchI choose thriller, although this kind of films not so many, but is also very popular in a part of people, it’s a very significant part in their life.

Daily Domestic Chart for Monday October 6th, 2014

    Movie Genre Gross Total Gross Days

1 (1) Gone Girl Thriller /Suspense $3,275,569   $40,788,678 4

2 (2) Annabelle Horror $2,308,284   $39,442,539 4

3 (3) The Equalizer Action $1,472,492   $65,709,484 11

4 (5) The Maze Runner Thriller /Suspense $640,588   $74,196,747 18

5 (4) The Boxtrolls Adventure $539,045   $32,632,841 11

6 (6) Left Behind Thriller /Suspense $427,384   $6,727,530 4

7 (7) This is Where I

Leave You

Comedy $313,655   $29,326,228 18

8 (9) Guardians of the

Galaxy

Adventure $214,336   $323,545,823 67

9 (8) Dolphin Tale 2 Drama $193,216   $38,059,346 25

10 (11) A Walk Among

the Tombstones

Action $179,090   $24,689,615 18

11 (10) No Good Deed Thriller /Suspense $157,028   $50,314,421 25

12 (13) The Good Lie Drama $71,313   $912,735 4

13 (14) Let’s Be Cops Comedy $61,552   $80,944,741 55

14 (12) Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles

Adventure $56,732   $188,379,473 60

15 (-) The Drop Drama $29,967   $10,424,480 25

- (15) If I Stay Drama $26,432   $49,800,846 46

- (-) Hector and the

Search for

Happiness

Romantic Comedy $20,197   $609,687 18

- (-) Into the Storm Thriller /Suspense $19,553   $46,945,036 60

- (-) The Giver Drama $19,296   $44,252,701 53

- (-) Lucy Action $19,155   $125,849,235 74

- (-) Dawn of the

Planet of the

Apes

Adventure $16,508   $207,889,176 88

- (-) When the Game

Stands Tall

Drama $16,204   $29,622,863 46

- (-) The Expendables Action $12,849   $39,166,394 53

3

- (-) How to Train Your

Dragon 2

Adventure $11,888   $176,104,714 116

- (-) Más negro que la

noche

Thriller /Suspense $11,129   $789,850 11

- (-) Jimi: All is By My

Side

Drama $10,744   $249,581 11

- (-) Tracks Drama $10,646   $344,750 18

- (-) Pride Drama $8,633   $223,105 11

- (-) Hercules Action $8,182   $72,558,537 74

- (-) Calvary Black Comedy $6,052   $3,576,878 67

- (-) Island of Lemurs:

Madagascar

Documentary $5,916   $7,497,138 186

- (-) As Above, So

Below

Thriller /Suspense $5,810   $21,203,125 39

- (-) Men, Women and

Children

Comedy $5,660   $66,974 6

- (-) Earth to Echo Adventure $3,421   $38,826,373 97

- (-) The

Disappearance of

Eleanor Rigby

Drama $3,236   $514,919 25

- (-) Tammy Comedy $3,198   $84,484,379 97

- (-) The November

Man

Thriller /Suspense $3,123   $24,925,099 41

- (-) Cantinflas Drama $2,851   $6,331,493 39

- (-) Transformers:

Age of Extinction

Action $2,389   $245,430,526 102

- (-) Begin Again Drama $2,055   $16,157,195 102

- (-) Sin City: A Dame

to Kill For

Action $1,474   $13,752,030 46

- (-) 50 to 1 Drama $166   $1,061,482 200

As we can see, in this graph, there are only 8 thriller, and in first 6 movies, thriller occupy half of them, and in all of those films, there is a thriller at NO.9 of Total Gross, that film’s total gross is $74196747, another 3 thriller are at NO.13, NO.14 and NO.15. It’s a very grade for them. There 13 drama films, they are the most, but their grades are not very well, the most total gross only $49800846. Maybe they are easy to make or popular in audiences, but thrillers always have high quality.

Box Office History for Thriller/Suspense Movies

Ticket Sales and Market Share by Year

AS we can see, this is a bar chart about history of ticket sales and market share for thriller. At the beginning, from 1995 to 1996, the data decrease slowly, and from 1996 to 1997, there was a suddenly increase, and the data keep grow to 1998. Between 1999 and 2001, the data was steadily. But from 2002 to 2003, there was a big fall. Then between 2006 and 2011, the data was quite steadily.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This a part of a table, as we can see, most of thriller are R, I think that because there are too much bloody, porn and violence situations in it, and only 4 PG-13 and 1PG in this table.

Top-Grossing Movies 1995-2014, Adjusted for Ticket

Price Inflation

Rank MovieRelease

DateDistributor

MPAA

RatingTotal Gross

Inflation-Adjusted

Gross

1 Titanic Dec 17, 1997 Paramount

Pictures

PG-13 $658,672,302 $1,110,601,190

2 The Sixth

Sense

Aug 6, 1999 Walt Disney PG-13 $293,506,292 $454,323,148

3 The Hunger

Games

Mar 23, 2012 Lionsgate PG-13 $408,010,692 $418,262,212

4 Signs Aug 2, 2002 Walt Disney PG-13 $227,965,690 $309,556,860

5 Inception Jul 16, 2010 Warner Bros. PG-13 $292,576,195 $302,588,304

6 Gravity Oct 4, 2013 Warner Bros. PG-13 $274,092,705 $274,092,703

7 The Da Vinci

Code

May 19, 2006 Sony Pictures PG-13 $217,536,138 $262,039,713

8 The Bourne

Ultimatum

Aug 3, 2007 Universal PG-13 $227,471,070 $260,864,356

9 Ocean's Eleven Dec 7, 2001 Warner Bros. PG-13 $183,417,150 $253,996,087

10 What Lies

Beneath

Jul 21, 2000 Dreamworks

SKG

PG-13 $155,464,351 $227,434,536

11 The Bourne

Supremacy

Jul 23, 2004 Universal PG-13 $176,087,450 $223,675,945

12 Se7en Sep 22, 1995 New Line R $100,125,643 $181,110,760

13 The Bourne

Identity

Jun 14, 2002 Universal PG-13 $121,468,960 $164,955,267

14 Taken Jan 30, 2009 20th Century

Fox

PG-13 $145,000,989 $152,541,039

15 The Village Jul 30, 2004 Walt Disney PG-13 $114,197,520 $145,089,139

16 Taken 2 Oct 5, 2012 20th Century

Fox

PG-13 $139,854,287 $143,348,670

17 Angels &

Demons

May 15, 2009 Sony Pictures PG-13 $133,375,846 $140,311,389

18 Vanilla Sky Dec 14, 2001 Paramount

Pictures

R $100,614,858 $139,204,816

19 Argo Oct 12, 2012 Warner Bros. R $136,025,503 $138,772,175

20 Unbreakable Nov 22, 2000 Walt Disney PG-13 $94,999,143 $138,715,100

21 Entrapment Apr 30, 1999 20th Century

Fox

PG-13 $87,707,396 $136,218,049

22 Shutter Island Feb 19, 2010 Paramount

Pictures

R $128,012,934 $132,393,601

23 Conspiracy

Theory

Aug 8, 1997 Warner Bros. R $76,118,990 $130,780,616

24 Super 8 Jun 9, 2011 Paramount

Pictures

PG-13 $127,004,179 $130,687,777

25 Panic Room Mar 29, 2002 Sony Pictures R $95,308,367 $129,429,091

It’s easy to look out that Titanic is the most successful film, it was distributed by

Paramount Pictures, rated PG-13. The reason why it got a very high box office is this film is PG-13, not R, so many children who under 13 can watch this film with their parents. Inflation-Adjusted Gross of Titanic was higher than others obviously, it’s approximately twice of the second film. Total gross of The Hunger Games was the second, it’s a well-known film.

There are many companies make thriller, but from my data, I find that 20 th Century Fox is an appropriate company to distribute films, can be seen in the graph, they made three films recently. The Maze Runner is at the first on the charts, I believe it will be a successful film. I showed grade of Gone Girl, it’s also very successful, and the total gross of these tow films are really high.

If I made a film, I will let 20th Century Fox to distribute my film, an my film is PG-13, because many children can watch it with their parents, then it will probably get a high box office and rank, I would make a low budget film, and I hope it can get the highest gross.