These 5 Directors Remain Hollywood’s Most Bankable, Data Shows

From Marvel to DC and Middle Earth to the Wizarding World, Hollywood has spent much of this past quarter-century serving up franchise universes as the signature theatrical offering. This stood in stark contrast to the 1970s, when singular filmmakers pushed cinema to industry-altering new critical and commercial heights. Though star power today, both in front of and behind the camera, has lost the luster of yesteryear, there still exists a small handful of filmmakers who boast drawing power all their own.