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Check This Out: Harry Potter Directors - By the Numbers

July 21, 2009
Source: MovieFill.com
by Alex Billington

Harry Potter Directors By the Numbers Graph

A few weeks back we featured a really cool box office graph created by Jeff Appelbaum called Michael Bay: By the Numbers. Jeff recently whipped up another impressive graph, this time looking at the Harry Potter movies. This time he presents Harry Potter Directors: By the Numbers (via MovieFill.com) and does a comparison of the four various directors who have directed Harry Potter movies. Not only does he look at their history and the impact of Harry Potter on their career, but also how the budgets of each compare (and their eventual box office performance). Jeff has given me permission to post this graph in full seen below.

Harry Potter Directors: By the Numbers

A few of the interesting things to note: 1) The next movie made by the original three directors following Harry Potter all ended up as box office bombs. That or they just wanted to go indie and weren't expecting to make a lot of money, which means this graph might be a bit deceptive. 2) David Yates is off to a great start and is doing very well considering he had only directed TV movies before Harry Potter. 3) Chris Columbus is the only original director (so far) who has had a very successful career besides Harry Potter. Although I will say that Alfonso Cuarón is a great director, even though his other movies didn't make a lot of money.

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Reader Feedback - 11 Comments »

1

Cuaron is soo underrated. By far directed the BEST Harry Potter out of them all. He WILL win an Oscar sometime in the future, all of his work is consistently excellent, unlike the other Potter directors who have had many hits and misses.

Bryan on Jul 22, 2009

2

definatly wouldnt consider children of men a 'bomb'

James on Jul 22, 2009

3

#2 - It only made $35.5 million on a $76 million budget… That's pretty rough. Although I do think it's one of the great sci-fi movies ever made.

Alex Billington on Jul 22, 2009

4

I think Alfonso Cuarón is one of the main reasons the franchise is going so will at this point.

the 1st film got a massive box office but disappointed the fans (in my view), the 2nd disappointed further (again in my view). So by the time we get to the 3rd the audience has shrunk due to the previous films.

its not until people realize that its a really good movie that they start coming back and give the franchise a new chance.

not to suggest the next films have been so successful purely because of Cuarón the have been good films and kept the audience there. I just feel that if the 3rd had been poor the audience wouldn't of come back the way it did for the next ones.

if this all makes sense.

scotty on Jul 22, 2009

5

Totally agree alex.

????? on Jul 22, 2009

6

Cuaron why did you leave!!!!

Dreckent on Jul 22, 2009

7

Children of Men was phenomenal…and Azkaban still sits atop all the other Potter flicks. Too bad he's not pulling in the money like some of the others.

peloquin on Jul 22, 2009

8

ok if you put it that way i guess it is..hehe. figured it had done better since it won an oscar (right?)

but agreed, it is one of the best of the genre, and one my personal favorites =)

James on Jul 22, 2009

9

i liked the first 3 Potter Movies (Cuaron's being the best), but i haven't liked the rest, and yes it's true, i've watched them hoping something better and ended up dissapointed :(

Zap on Jul 22, 2009

10

Actually "Little Princess" is better than a couple of Potter films (judging by the type of film they are), kinda sad to see only 10 million worldwide gross for that one.

Mario on Jul 23, 2009

11

Alfonso Cuaron, made the first good Harry Potter. After that I think the studio made good decisions in terms of directors (David Yates is a standout to), Even though I'm not much of a fan of Harry Potter at all.

I consider the first two films among the worst films ever made.

d1rEct on Nov 21, 2009

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