Interesting analysis. Reminded me just a bit of the Economist’s Big Mac Index as a way of judging if a currency is over- or undervalued based on local Big Mac prices around the world.
I’m trying to think of a real-world use for your list.
I don’t know who all these directors are, but it looks like most are American or British. Surely there are directors in Korea or China or Nigeria or someplace that have made high-grossing films. Or is that just a Hollywood/bigtime-investor phenomenon?
And no Scorsese? No Joel and Ethan Coen? Wild.
I suppose another analysis would be to look at the ratio of box office gross to budget. That would favor directors who did low-budget pictures that hit it big. Although I suppose it’s bottom line that matters to just about everyone, not ratio.
The profit number was a question I was originally interested in, but unfortunately I found that a lot of this data is either unreliable or not available at all for many films. Which I personally find very weird, because someone is keeping track of these exact numbers, somewhere.
And yes, not a whole lot of international play in the top 100. Martin Scorcese sits at #63, and we don't see a Coen brother until 163.
I like letting in a little IP here and there since some directors can do a lot with it while others don’t and it flops. I don’t have an example of beloved IP flopping in the hands of an incompetent director but there must be some.
Interesting analysis. Reminded me just a bit of the Economist’s Big Mac Index as a way of judging if a currency is over- or undervalued based on local Big Mac prices around the world.
I’m trying to think of a real-world use for your list.
I don’t know who all these directors are, but it looks like most are American or British. Surely there are directors in Korea or China or Nigeria or someplace that have made high-grossing films. Or is that just a Hollywood/bigtime-investor phenomenon?
And no Scorsese? No Joel and Ethan Coen? Wild.
I suppose another analysis would be to look at the ratio of box office gross to budget. That would favor directors who did low-budget pictures that hit it big. Although I suppose it’s bottom line that matters to just about everyone, not ratio.
The profit number was a question I was originally interested in, but unfortunately I found that a lot of this data is either unreliable or not available at all for many films. Which I personally find very weird, because someone is keeping track of these exact numbers, somewhere.
And yes, not a whole lot of international play in the top 100. Martin Scorcese sits at #63, and we don't see a Coen brother until 163.
I like letting in a little IP here and there since some directors can do a lot with it while others don’t and it flops. I don’t have an example of beloved IP flopping in the hands of an incompetent director but there must be some.