TABLE 2.20 PERFORMANCE DATA FOR 10 MOTION PICTURES Opening Gross Sales ($millions) Total Gross Sales ($millions) Weeks Number of Theaters in Release Motion Picture Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Transformers: Dark of the Moon The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 169.19 381.01 4375 19 97.85 352.39 4088 15 138.12 281.29 4066 14 Part 1 3675 4164 254.46 The Hangover Part II Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger 85.95 16 90.15 241.07 19 Tides Fast Five 86.20 209.84 3793 15 Mission: Impossible– Ghost Protocol 12.79 208.55 3555 13 Cars 2 66.14 191.45 4115 25 Sherlock Holmes: A 39.64 186.59 3703 13 Game of Shadows Thor 65.72 181.03 3963 16
Motion Picture Industry
The motion picture industry is a competitive business. More than 50 studios produce a total of 300 to 400 new motion pictures each yea1 and the financial success of each motion picture varies considerably. The opening weekend gross sales ($millions), the total gross sales ($millions). the number of theaters the movie was shown in. and the number of weeks
the motion picture was in release are common variables used to measure the success of a motion picture. Data collected for the top 100 motion pictures produced in 2011 are contained in the file named 2011 Movies (Box Office Mojo. March 17,2012).Table 2.20 shows the data for the first 10 motion pictures in this file.
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Include the following in your report.
1.Tabular and graphical summaries for each of the four variables along with a discussion of what each summary tells us about the motion picture industry.
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3. A scatter diagram to explore the relationship between Total Gross Sales and Number of Discuss.
4. A scatter diagram to explore the relationship between Total Gross Sales and Number of Weeks in Discuss.
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