Movie Theater Data

I started going to the movies a lot when I signed up for Moviepass in late 2017. After they fell apart, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the data.

The charts were made with D3. All the data is pulled out of a Google Sheet on page load and parsed using Papa Parse. Some of the data in the spreadsheet comes from OMDb. The ratings are pulled from my Letterboxd account. I referenced these projects for the calendar chart and this project for the stacked bar chart. I used this stylesheet for the Solarized Dark color scheme. The hatched fill was adapted from this project.

• "Non-premium" showings are considered to be 2D DCPs or on 35mm. Premium showings are anything that usually costs more money than regular — this includes just about anything else (3D, chain-specific premium brands, Dolby Atmos, any variety of IMAX, 70mm, etc).
• This chart doesn't include things at movie theaters that aren't movies. If it doesn't have an IMDb page, it isn't included.
• Prices paid don't factor in concessions, movie tickets I bought for other people, or any addon-style donations to non-profit theaters.
• If there are multiple kinds of fees (online booking fees, convenience fees, Sinemia fees) on a single ticket, they are all added together.
• "Gifts" can be an invite to a free screening, it doesn't have to be someone else paying for the tickets. "Free Tickets" are tickets that were offered as some kind of promotion or make-good.
• For double features, the top-billed movie is listed at full price under whatever service was used to buy the ticket. The second-billed movie is listed with a price of $0 under the "Double Feature" service.

General Statistics