Every number, explained
Cinemuse is a free fan project. No ads, no paywall. Here is where the numbers come from and how they are worked out.
Sources and credits
Ratings, vote counts, release years, runtimes, genres and credits. Refreshed every night.
Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission.
Release dates, critic scores (Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes as recorded there), box office, budgets, countries and languages.
Public domain. Thank you, Wikidata editors.
Weekend number ones, the year at the box office, the release calendar, and the poster thumbnails used to identify films.
Tables and text from the linked articles. Posters are small thumbnails used for identification; each film page links its source.
Daily attention for films and people. Trending means a real spike against a person or film’s own recent baseline.
Public domain.
Every Academy Award nomination since the first ceremony.
Copyright David V. Lu!!, used under the BSD 2-Clause license.
How the stats work
- Rated films
- Averages, bests and streaks only count feature films with at least 1,000 IMDb votes, so a tiny audience cannot swing a career.
- Average and vote weighted
- The average treats every film equally. The weighted version gives bigger films more say, using the log of their vote count.
- Peak run
- The five consecutive rated films with the highest average.
- 7+ run
- The longest stretch of consecutive rated films at 7.0 or better.
- Current form
- The five most recent rated films, each marked W or L against the career average.
- Lift
- For two people: their average together minus the mean of their two career averages. Positive means better together.
- Critics vs crowd
- Metacritic against IMDb on the same 100 point scale (IMDb times ten).
- Trending
- Last three days of Wikipedia views against the previous four weeks, damped by volume.
What we do not do
We do not scrape Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Box Office Mojo or The Numbers. Critic scores come from Wikidata, and box office from Wikipedia, with links to the trades for the official figures.
We do not sell data, run ads, or offer bulk downloads of IMDb-derived numbers.
Portraits are original Cinemuse illustrations. If you would like a poster or portrait removed, reach the maintainer through the project owner.