2008 US Movie Box Office Chart

Xach has published an interactive chart of the 2008 US Box Office returns.  Each stripe is a movie, with the width of the stripe representing the money coming in each week.  Stripes are ordered each week (The columns) by top-grossing, and you can see them all make huge returns on opening weekend and slowly trickling off.

2008 US Movie Box Office.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .