Stat Significant: Best Non-Sequel Casts According to Box Office Performance

"A movie's poster reduces the careers of film stars into a line in an advertisement. The logic: if you like [insert celebrity's name], you'll love [insert movie]. Our analysis will quantify the commercial & critical prowess of a movie's leading actors based on their body of work before that film's release—the way one would if looking at a movie poster. For box office performance, we'll measure the avg inflation-adjusted gross for a movie's cast with the following parameters: A Film's Six Leading Roles; An Actor's Five Most Recent Movies; Casts of Well-known Actors with Track Records; Analyzing Sequels & Originals Separately. Quantifying critical acclaim is exceedingly less complex, as we'll count career cast Oscar nominations. Our list of best sequel casts is emblematic of modern Hollywood's infatuation with franchise filmmaking, where commercial cinema is defined by a well-worn formula: [Well-known Intellectual Property] + [Cast of Celebrities] = [Box Office]." - statsignificant.com