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Essay on Motion Picture Industry Managerial Report

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When creating a movie to release in such a competitive industry, assurance is needed that there will be a return on investment as well as that their movie will be well-received by the public and entertaining to make it a popular hit at the box office. Using a sample of 100 motion pictures from 2005 and numerical methods of descriptive statistics, including measures of location, variability, distribution shape and the detection of outliers, the motion picture industry can be analyzed more specifically in order to learn how these variables play a part in the success of a motion picture. The main concern of management in this case would be with regard to revenue, profit, and entertainment. In this case study it was found that there was a …show more content…

The range of opening gross sales was 108.43, from 0.01 (Caterina in the Big City) to 108.44 (Star Wars: Episode III), and the standard deviation was 18.87. However, the interquartile range of 12.37 would be a more appropriate measure of variability because the distribution is skewed and has extreme values. Once a box-plot is created, one can see the extreme values are 108.44 (Star Wars: Episode III), 102.69 (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), 77.06 (War of the Worlds), 50.34 (Mr. and Mrs. Smith), 48.75 (Batman Begins), and 33.90 (Wedding Crashers).

Total Gross will demonstrate how much money a movie has earned overall. This can serve as an indicator of which types of movies will resonate with movie-goers and do well in the future. This could also serve as a guide of whether to make a sequel and if it would or would not maximize profits. As with the opening gross, total gross also has a right tail, therefore, median would be a more appropriate central tendency measure than the mean. The median total gross was 5.85, indicating 50% of the total gross values were less than 5.85 and 50% were above 5.85. The range of total gross was 380.15; from 0.03 to 380.18 and the standard deviation was 63.16. Again, the interquartile range of 47.03

would be a more appropriate measure of variability due to the skewness. Based on the box-plot, extreme values were 380.18 (Star Wars:

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