Being a big fan of movies, I stumbled upon some data from Nate Silvers blog (fivethirtyeight.com). Basically gave you a list of around 1600 movies since the 1970's and their budgets and revenues (and also adjusted to 2013 dollars so you could do an accurate comparison). So using this data you could actually get the gross profits over a period of time for a lot of movies.
Now I was interested in the most profitable movies based on revenue per dollar of budget. (sort of an inverse gross profit ratio). Surprising figures really..all the big movies aren't really in the list, due to those large budgets. The top 10 most profitable movies are, in order from most profitable are :-
Paranormal Activity
The Blair Witch Project
El Mariachi
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Towering Inferno
Rocky
American Graffiti
Clerks.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
In the Company of Men
Horror seems to be the best option really, with 4 in the top 10. Paranormal Activity made $610 revenue per dollar of budget. Not bad if you were bankrolling that beauty.
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