Tag: data

For a decade, the safest bet at the box office was a familiar logo. In 2026, the numbers are telling a different story: a Star Wars movie is hemorrhaging market share to original genre films, and the gap between what nostalgia is supposed to deliver and what it actually returns has never been wider. Let me show you what the data says.

Are movies actually getting better in 2026, or are we just rating them higher? I ran the question against every movie in the spameri.cz database with at least 100 Trakt votes — 5,433 films from 2015 through 2026 — and the answer is yes to both, but the math is more interesting than that.

Boots Riley's I Love Boosters lands in theaters this Friday, and it joins a 2026 slate where the $30–$50M movie has quietly been the smartest bet on the board. Let me show you what the numbers reveal — because if you only watch the top of the chart, you're missing the actual story of this year's box office.

Three films cleared $36 million domestically the weekend of May 8-10, and the 20-year-old comedy sequel beat them both. The −44% drop is doing all the work — and the demographic data shows exactly why none of the new entrants laid a glove on Miranda Priestly.

Two very different films open the same Friday: a fashion-comedy sequel and an animated political fable. We don't have opening numbers yet — but we have a decade of historical clash weekends, long-gap sequel data, and audience demographics that tell us a lot about what to expect.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy made 79.1% of its current domestic gross in its opening weekend. By Wednesday — Day 6 — it had earned $17.09M total, with weekdays adding just $3.57M combined. That's the most front-loaded R-rated horror opening of recent memory, and it tells us exactly where Universal's monster reboot wave is heading next: nowhere good.

Two films have combined for $1.14 billion worldwide in mere weeks, Q1 domestic revenue is up 24.8% year-over-year, and April has already surpassed 2024's entire monthly total in just 12 days. The numbers say the post-COVID recovery is finally real.

Super Mario Galaxy Movie posted a $191M 5-day opening, making it 2026's first real box office monster. But here's the thing: critics gave it a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes while audiences gave it 89%. Let's look at what the numbers actually tell us.

Evil Dead Burn is the latest in a long line of horror franchise comebacks. We ran the numbers on every major horror series revival — from Scream to Halloween to Alien — and found a pattern the studios definitely already know: horror is the safest bet in Hollywood.

Twelve films. Three decades. Seven Oscar wins. One director who turned IMAX cameras into a storytelling revolution. We ran the numbers on Christopher Nolan's entire career — the data tells the story of cinema's most bankable auteur.

Disney has spent a decade remaking its animated classics. We put every film through the data — box office, budgets, critic scores, audience scores, and ROI. The numbers tell a story the studio probably doesn't want you to see.

Three consecutive weekends. Three potential hundred-million-dollar openings. June 2026 just delivered the most concentrated box office battle in years — here's what the data reveals about who won, who got hurt, and what it means for the rest of the summer.

We dug into the spameri.cz database to find every Czech and Czechoslovak film we have indexed. Three Oscar wins, one of cinema's greatest directorial exports, and an average rating that consistently beats Hollywood averages. Here's what the numbers reveal about a century of Czech filmmaking.

Every January, the prediction industry publishes its forecasts for the year ahead. Five months and billions of dollars later, the data tells a very different story. Here's how the 2026 box office predictions actually held up — and what the gaps reveal about the state of the industry.

The first five months of 2026 produced the best Q1 since the pandemic, a $179 million A24 record, and three animated films in the top seven. Here's what the data reveals about where movies really stand.

Two of the most debated directors of the 21st century. Eleven Nolan films. Eight Villeneuve films. One database with the ratings to settle this once and for all — or at least make the argument more interesting.

Two of cinema's biggest prizes. Same art form, very different taste. We pulled runtime, genre, and origin data on every Palme d'Or and Best Picture winner since 2005 — and the numbers reveal two awards ceremonies that agree on almost nothing.

We queried 367,000 feature-length films from the spameri.cz database spanning six decades. The answer is yes — but not the way you think. The median movie barely budged. The real story is at the top.

Everyone says movies are getting worse. The data disagrees — at least for thrillers. We dug into 53,000 thriller movies in the spameri.cz database and found a surprising trend: after a decade-long dip, thriller ratings have been climbing since 2019.

Out of 1,132,666 movies in the spameri.cz database, only 479 score above 7.5 on Trakt while having fewer than 1,000 votes. We dug through them all. These are the 8 that deserve your attention right now.

Twenty years ago, Alfonso Cuarón made a movie about a world falling apart — refugee camps, government crackdowns, a population too exhausted to hope. In 2026, it doesn't feel like science fiction anymore. It feels like a documentary from next year.

The 98th Academy Awards gave us records, firsts, and a few curveballs. Jordan Blake digs into the data behind the golden statues — from Sinners' record-shattering 16 nominations to the birth of an entirely new Oscar category.