The Marquee
A cinematic ledger of budget, revenue, and audience chatter to reveal low-budget breakouts.
Low-budget films with unusually high audience attention are cultural outliers that punch above their production weight.
Question: Which films outperform budget expectations in audience response?
Method: Compare budget versus revenue and layer audience attention to find residuals.
Prediction: High-impact films cluster in lower budget ranges while still achieving outsized revenue and attention.
Test: Rank by impact and ROI, then compare top and bottom quartiles by decade.
The marquee lights with new releases, each bulb mapped to a film’s budget and box office glow.
A few bulbs blaze brighter than their budgets suggest, flickering with outsized audience chatter.
Those outliers step forward as the most disproportionate cultural impact stories.
- imdb.films
- tmdb.movies
- marquee.json
- Budget and revenue are not inflation-adjusted, so comparisons are most reliable within decades.
- Popularity favors recent releases and marketing-heavy campaigns.
- ROI outliers may include data inconsistencies or regional reporting gaps.
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