Data Sources

Used for Weekly domestic box office charts, weekend market totals and cumulative grosses.

Published by Nash Information Services. Weekend figures are Sunday estimates and are revised upward by the publisher in the days that follow.

Used for The weekly Streaming Movies Top 10 and minutes viewed.

Published weekly by Nielsen as part of The Gauge. Nielsen reports roughly five weeks in arrears.

Used for Budgets, worldwide grosses, artwork and US streaming availability.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Used for IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores, plus title, director and cast metadata.

Ratings are the property of IMDb, Fandango and Metacritic respectively.

Used for Hours viewed and views per title, by reporting period.

Self-published by Netflix twice a year as What We Watched. Covers Netflix only, and is not comparable to Nielsen's panel-based minutes.

Used for Global and international theatrical market totals on the Trends pages.

No free source publishes a scrapable global market total, so these are transcribed from published industry reports with a per-year citation: MPA Theatrical Market Statistics and THEME reports through 2021, Gower Street Analytics year-end estimates from 2022 (the MPA stopped publishing THEME publicly after 2021).

Used for Annual CPI-U averages, used to deflate box office into constant dollars.

Public domain US government data, retrieved from the BLS public API. Inflation-adjusted views are labelled as CPI-adjusted, never as ticket-price adjusted.

Used for Streaming subscription revenue by company on the Trends pages.

Netflix revenue comes from the SEC's XBRL API. Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and Peacock segment revenue is transcribed from their 10-K and 8-K filings, each with the filing cited, because segment revenue is dimensional in XBRL and not exposed by the API.

Used for Annual admissions and average ticket price (2010-2025).

The Numbers' Movie Market Summary page is no longer live. Those figures are transcribed from a Wayback Machine snapshot and treated as fixed historical values rather than re-fetched.