DATA METHODOLOGY

Beauty follows truth.

Every ranking declares its grain, source boundary, coverage, and freshness. Missing data remains missing.

Box office

Box Office Mojo

Top 200 worldwide release rows for each year from 2017 through 2026, including worldwide, domestic, and international gross.

Movie metadata

IMDb datasets

Genre, runtime, rating, and vote count matched by normalized title and release year. Current coverage: 92%.

China pulse

Maoyan boundary

Live Chinese-market observations remain separate from USD worldwide tables and retain their original currency and timestamp.

Metric contracts
  1. Catalog grain: one movie-release-year observation.
  2. Rankings default to reported worldwide gross, with nulls last.
  3. Combined gross sums source rows and may include re-releases as separate years.
  4. IMDb ratings are audience metadata, not box-office performance.
  5. Gemini enrichment may classify or flag anomalies but cannot create financial facts.

Catalog: 2,001 rows. Generated Aug 2, 2026, 5:30 AM.