Highest Grossing Movie Franchises
The Highest Grossing Movie Franchises infographic from Buzzfeed makes good use of a stacked bar chart to put the various movie series into perspective. Design by John Gara.
Listed below are the most successful action/adventure movie franchises of all time. Each box represents an individual movie within that franchise, its width reflective of its contribution to the franchise’s box office success. We used worldwide box office totals from The-Numbers. com and adjusted them for inflation. All movies within each franchise are displayed chronologically from left to right.
Great design that really does a fantastic job of comparing the franchises. I’m especially impressed that they took the time to adjust the data for inflation, a step that designers normally forget. The color coding within each franchise is also easily explained with colored text under the stacked bars. No need for a chart legend!
The franchises are sorted in descending order as shown by the bars, but the extra graphic design to the right of each bar is visually misleading. To some, this will look like an extension of the data, but it’s just artistic, with the images spaced out so they don’t overlap.
The footer should have included both a copyright statement, and the URL link back to the original landing page so readers can find the original full-size version.
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