On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matt Curcio <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > I am wondering if anyone is aware of any studies that draw a > relationship between an actor and their box office gross for a movie. > In other words, is anybody aware of any databases that contain box > office movie grosses, actor & director info., advertising budget, etc, > etc. [ I did a quick google search and did not find much right off but > will keep looking.] I would assume that movie companies, and even > actors managers must have done or (more realistically) have access to > statistical analysis on the average returns for any one actor, > director, etc, etc. > > I would think that this would be a great little project.
Did you not spot that the IMDB makes its data files available: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/ Read the docs and check the licensing info: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces Barry ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
