17. Movie Money Does the amount of money a movie makes on a single weekend in any way predict the movie’s success or failure? Or is a movie’s monetary success more dependent on the number of weeks the movie remains in movie theaters? The following data was collected for the top 16 movies in theaters during a recent weekend

Use the tools that you have developed in this chapter to explore possible relationships between pairs of variables in the table. Which scatterplots might be helpful in your investigation? Which pairs of variables will have a positive correlation? A negative correlation?

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TW Count/ Total Gross Budget Week Weekend Theater Gross Title Studio ($ millions) Change Average ($ millions) ($ millions) # 1 Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween LGF $21.2 2,388 $8,889 $21.2 $25 1 2 Geostorm WB $13.7 3,246 $4,223 $13.7 $120 1 3 Happy Death Day Uni. $9.4 3,298 $2,839 $40.7 $4.8 2 4 Blade Run- ner 2049 WB $7.4 3,203 $2,296 $74.2 $150 3 5 Only The Brave Sony $6.0 2,577 $2,329 $6.0 $38 1 6 The Foreigner STX $5.8 2,515 $2,301 $23.2 $35 7 It WB (NL) $3.5 2,560 $1,348 $320.2 $35 7 27 2 8 The Snowman Uni. $3.4 1,812 $1,861 $3.4 $35 1 9 American Made Uni. $3.1 2,559 $1,224 $45.5 $50 4 10 Kingsman: The Golden Circle Fox $3.0 2,318 $1,299 $94.6 $104 5 11 The Mountain Between Us Fox $2.8 3,151 $880 $25.6 $35 3 12 Same Kind of Different as Me PFR $2.6 1,362 $1,903 $2.6 1 13 The LEGO Ninjago Movie WB $2.2 2,102 $1,059 $54.7 5 14 Victoria and Abdul Focus $2.1 1,060 $2,006 $14.8 5 15 My Little Pony: The Movie LGF $2.0 2,301 $881 $18.6 16 Marshall ORF $1.5 821 $1,806 $5.4 $12 3 2 2