Summer Movie Madness

Here’s a chart of a selection of recent movie releases.

Queries for each movie are basically the name of the movie (plus variations). For example, (batman OR “dark knight”).

If you want to check in on things as they progress, the link is here. No surprise that Batman broke opening night records. BoxOfficeMojo says (via email):

'The Dark Knight' raked in $18.489 million in its midnight opening, according to distributor Warner Bros. That sets a new midnight opening record, beating 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith's benchmark of $16.5 million. 'Sith's full opening day ended up at $50 million.

This marks 'The Dark Knight's second record after posting the highest theater count ever: 4,366.

We were disappointed to find that Mamma Mia was sold out last night! It was released on ~3,000 screens. FlixPulse is giving Batman a 98% score currently, though Mamma Mia hasn’t even registered there.

Batman is currently sitting at 1.75% of blog attention. For comparison, the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie came in at 1.25, the Golden Compass also hit 0.7%, the first Narnia movie peaked at 1.25%. Have a look at other related posts. Note that there may be some variation in how these graphs were created. Watch out for cases where a modifier like ‘+movie’ or ‘+(movie OR film)’ has been inserted to restrict matches. For comparison, here is a repeat of the above graph with the modifier ‘+movie’.

Comments

[Channel Sunglasses]

I think dark knight is the best movie ever produced. I love this movie. Thanks for sharing the graphs.