R help - Jan 2011 - Movie Question

Greetings all,
I am wondering if anyone is aware of any studies that draw a
relationship between an actor and their box office gross for a movie.
In other words, is anybody aware of any databases that contain box
office movie grosses, actor & director info., advertising budget, etc,
etc. [ I did a quick google search and did not find much right off but
will keep looking.]  I would assume that movie companies, and even
actors managers must have done or (more realistically) have access to
statistical analysis on the average returns for any one actor,
director, etc, etc.

I would think that this would be a great little project.
Cheers,
M

Matt Curcio
E: matt.curcio.ri at gmail.com

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matt Curcio <matt.curcio.ri at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
> I am wondering if anyone is aware of any studies that draw a
> relationship between an actor and their box office gross for a movie.
> In other words, is anybody aware of any databases that contain box
> office movie grosses, actor & director info., advertising budget, etc,
> etc. [ I did a quick google search and did not find much right off but
> will keep looking.] ?I would assume that movie companies, and even
> actors managers must have done or (more realistically) have access to
> statistical analysis on the average returns for any one actor,
> director, etc, etc.
>
> I would think that this would be a great little project.
 Did you not spot that the IMDB makes its data files available:

 ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/

 Read the docs and check the licensing info:

 http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

Barry