Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino is the director of the most popular thriller on IMDb, Pulp Fiction but he also directed 10 other movies: 'My Best Friend's Birthday' (1987) a short movie, 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992), 'Jackie Brown' (1997), 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' (2003), 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' (2004), 'Sin City' (2005) as a guest director, 'Death Proof' (2007) as part of 'Grindhouse' (2007) and 'Inglorious Basterds' (2009). It has also been recently announced that Tarantino is making 'Kill Bill Vol. 3' for release in 2014 (Source). 'Reservoir Dogs' is Tarantino's only other solo film in the IMDB list, but for a contemporary director that is a major success. According to Rotten Tomatoes, Tarantino's Filmography stands at:
Range of Movie T-meters: 10% - 100%Number of Movies: 39Box Office Since 2001: £411.9M
(Including all appearances in many different jobs)
These figures may be slightly incorrect, but they do show a rough image of Tarantino's success.
Christopher Nolan
Nolan is the director of the other most popular thriller on IMDb, Inception, but he is also the director of the 3rd, 10th, 25th and 31st most popular thrillers, The Dark Knight, Memento, 'The Prestige' (2006) and 'Batman Begins' (2005). He has also directed 4 other movies: 'Doodlebug' (1997), 'Following' (1998), 'Insomnia' (2002), and 'Prisoner' (2009). He currently has two films in the works, Superman: Man of Steel expected for 2012 as producer and The Dark Knight Rises also for 2012 as the director.
The Rotten Tomatoes figures for Nolan stand at:
Range of Movie T-meters: 75% - 94%Number of Movies: 12Box Office Since 2001: £1175.1M
Overall, Nolan appears to be much more successful overall than Tarantino and to a certain extent he is. However, Nolan's movies are a lot more mainstream than Tarantino's offerings and that is most likely why his movies have sold more.
Alfred Hitchcock
Of all the Thriller directors, Hitchcock is perhaps the most prolific Thriller director of all time with a massive total 63 films throughout his career with 6 appearing in IMDb's list: 'Notorious' (1946), 'Rebecca' (1940), Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho and Rear Window (1954). Rear Window and Psycho are his most popular films on the list at joint 6th. On Rotten Tomatoes, all but three of the rated films have a rating above 70% with 9 getting a 100% rating. After a little bit of searching I was able to find Hitchcock's overall box office data and it revealed that across 23 films he earned a staggering $223,286,205 which equates to an average of $11,164,310 per film. (Source) While the source's reliability is arguable, it does show how successful Hitchcock was from 1940-1976. If these figures were based around the actual gross profit at that time, then when converted into present day money the total profit is even more astounding at $1,832,218,826.56 (Using this calculator) which equates to an average of $91,610,941.33 per film. This success is what has led to Hitchcock being deemed the 'King of Psychological Thrillers' and is why his films are seen as absolute classics.
Other prominent directors include: Martin Scorsese (Director of Shutter Island and Goodfellas), David Fincher (Director of Se7en, Fight Club and Panic Room (2002)), Bryan Singer (Director of Valkyrie and The Usual Suspects (1995)) and Ridley Scott (Director of cult classics, Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982)).
One thing that all of these director's seem that have in common is a certain quirk that they always seem to use in their films. This information might be useful for when I actually create my Thriller as I could include something that could be seen as my own personal motif.
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