A while ago we posted an infographic from the NY Times that plotted the box office receipts of all major movies from 1986-2007.

Here is another visual graphic system that shows similar information but in a slightly different (in my opinion better) way. These are based on on steam graphs and show a more organized structure of data.

Each page displays trends in the top 25 movies at the box office for each weekend in a year. The color is based on the movie’s debut week. Because of that, long-running movies will gradually start to stand out from newer movies with different colors.

You can see detailed views here. I’m sure no one will be surprised to learn the The Dark Knight is kicking ass at the box office in the last couple of weeks.