{"id":96751,"date":"2016-07-08T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=96751"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:01:53","slug":"is-this-definitive-proof-that-critics-directly-influence-how-much-a-movie-earns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/96751-is-this-definitive-proof-that-critics-directly-influence-how-much-a-movie-earns","title":{"rendered":"Is this definitive proof that critics directly influence how much a movie earns?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent graph published by Reddit user pnw_smalls<\/a><\/strong> shows a remarkable correlation between critic scores and box office earnings.<\/p>\n

The graph compared 2016’s “tentpole <\/a><\/strong>releases”, their Rotten Tomato scores, and their projected domestic gross.<\/p>\n

While “correlation <\/a><\/strong>does not imply causation” is an important concept in understanding scientific results, it seems that 2016’s moviegoers may have been directly influenced into watching certain movies.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are a number of other explanations that could explain the correlation including the release of several Disney titles over the period which are typically high-earning and highly-rated.<\/p>\n

You can check out the full graph below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Movie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A recently published graph shows a remarkable correlation between critic scores and box office earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":96757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[12814,18903,279,19869],"class_list":["post-96751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-features","tag-box-office","tag-critics","tag-movie","tag-rotten-tomato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96829,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96751\/revisions\/96829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}