Along with imdb.com, boxofficemojo.com might be a potential database.

-tgs

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matt Curcio <matt.curcio.ri@gmail.com>
> 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
>
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