Reading about the stink the MPAA and RIAA are kicking up about the whole P2P bittorrent thing got me thinking. I wonder if what they are saying is actually true. Are movie makers actually being ripped off by bittorrent?

I found this website called The Numbers which has a whole lot of box office data on it.

However no API. And I wanted an API that would tell me whether to feel guilty about downloading a particular movie.

So I made this: Box Office Data API

You just have to enter the movie name and year (in the url bar – no form yet) and it will tell you (if the data is available) the production costs, the gross revenue, and the net profit the movie makers made.

Here’s an example for the movie District 9 also if you look at Titanic they made over 1.5 billion bucks profit on that piece of shit movie!

The search code isn’t very smart though so it may return some dodgey results. Still beta but still useful.

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