FlixTime is a movie recommendation web application that recommends a group of friends having different interests in movie genres, some movies that most of them will enjoy. The system uses Hybrid approach to recommend movies due to the downsides of using only content based approach or...

Using a uniquely collected dataset on Chinese movies, we investigate the impact of studios’ profit orientation on their movie themes under censorship. The Value Adjustment Mechanism (VAM), which links executives’ incomes with studios’ box office within 5 years after the studios are...

Consumers often rely on product rankings to make purchase decisions. Using data from China’s movie market, we examined the demand effects of opening-week box office rankings. We allowed two potential channels through which such rankings affect consumer demand: quality signaling and information...

Aim/purpose - This study explores how the content feature and source of eWOM affect people's intentions and further analyses the effectiveness of eWOM on people's intention to watch movies. Design/methodology/approach - The study considers two dimensions of movie reviews, including the source...

The aim of the research is to examine the social media activities of film promoters and the factors that have an impact on public decision-making and to watch film in the cinema. This research looked at film audiences in Thailand to evaluate public perception, social media tracking and...

This research uncovers the critical deficiencies of the current genre-based movie categorization practice in the film industry and introduces a new method to classify movies. Using a large scale audience survey data, the authors cluster movies into nine distinct types based on eight...

The Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and 1940s was remarkable for its abundance of glamorous stars. In this paper, we investigate whether the vertical structure of the Hollywood studios, by ensuring studio claims to “star capital,” spurred higher levels of investment in discovering stars...

Movie studios’ film distribution practices have undergone radical changes over the past decade with the rise of digital channels including Electronic-Sell-Through (EST) and Video-on-demand (VOD). However, one aspect of the release schedule has been remarkably stable. Most Hollywood movies are...

In this article, I empirically examine whether the performance of a chain-affiliated establishment is affected by its organizational form. Using cross-sectional data on the movie theater industry, I find evidence that performance is higher in a company-owned theater than in a franchised one,...

Product placement is the incorporation of commercial content into noncommercial settings, that is, a product plug generated via the fusion of advertising and entertainment. This paper aims to study the memory effects of Product Placement in Bollywood movies, with simultaneous comparison between...

I evaluate the substitution effects of pirated movies - the unlicensed online movies available on file-sharing websites - on their genuine counterparts, and explore the institutional and economic causes of China's high level of movie piracy. To do this, I build a dataset including information on...

Assume that Dismal Science Cinema enters during the 4th of July and possesses private information regarding together with rational expectations, adaptive expectations, and a follow-up to the previously-released blockbuster. The films that the aforementioned studio is about to release comprises...

In this study, we investigate the sales impact of different types of online word-of-mouth (WOM) based on their source (user versus critic) and form (structured versus unstructured). We propose a model by adopting the heuristic-systematic perspective and empirically test it using online movie...

Since World War II and may be the Vietnam War, the world has not witnessed a dramatic and shocking event like the events of 11 September 2001 and their repercussions. The incident itself was filmed and viewed by people worldwide. September 11 attacks have become a pivotal incident in many world...

This paper contrasts the drive-in cinema experience to that of traditional, indoor cinemas. We examine the factors that led to the dramatic growth of drive-ins in the post-WWII period and how drive-in owners encouraged addictive consumption by patrons. We also examine means by which drive-ins...

Some economists assert that as valuable works transition from copyrighted status and fall into the public domain they will be underexploited and their value dissipated. Others insist instead that without an owner to control their use, valuable public domain works will be overexploited or...

The structure of whole texts is, arguably, one of the first objects of (pre-) linguistic analysis. Even the earliest forms of Rhetoric explorations focused on it. But what is text structure in reality? How can it be explained from a cognitive standpoint? How does it exist as a human mental...

The analysis of the articles of magazine Cinema Art – 1967 identified the following key film criticism trends:- Despite the folding thaw effects, the magazine tried to keep the ideological position of the late 1950s - early 1960s;- The authors of the magazine tried to analyze the most notable...

This paper examines how vertical integration affects non-price efficiency in the movie theater industry. Adopting a discrete choice framework, we derive consumer welfare under capacity constraints and fixed prices, and show that allocating capacity proportionally to demand is efficient. Applying...

Background: Cinema programmes are set in advance (usually with a weekly frequency), which motivates us to investigate the short-term forecasting of attendance. In the literature on the cinema industry, the issue of attendance forecasting has gained less research attention compared to modelling...

In recent years, online retailers have increasingly relied on state of the art algorithms to help predict user satisfaction and recommend movies to consumers. The major limitation of advanced state of the art computational algorithms such as SVD and latent factor models using implicit feedback...

This paper investigates whether a price-concentration relationship can be found on local cinema markets in Germany. First, we test a model of monopolistic pricing using a new set of German micro data and find no significant difference in admission prices on monopoly and oligopoly markets. In a...

This paper utilizes the substantial and rapid increase in the number of Brazilian theater screens experienced between 2002 and 2005 to empirically examine how entry reshapes the competitive landscape. Using a large database containing daily information on box office performance and attendance by...

Discusses film and screenplay copyright infringement under Indian and English law, including liability in "altered copying" cases. Argues that suing Bollywood filmmakers for copyright infringement can indirectly help non-Bollywood filmmakers in India who do not ape Hollywod storylines

Since the early 1970s, movie theaters in the United States have employed a pricing model of uniform prices for differentiated goods. At any given theater, one price is charged for all movies, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This pricing model is puzzling in light of the potential...

Most analyses of the film market treat it as a single entity where producers make films based on average consumer interest while critics serve as forecasters or signalers of film quality to these consumers. We describe the film market as two‐sided—a mass market (average consumer) side and a...

Many movie markets are characterised by extensive uniform pricing practices, hampering the ability to estimate price elasticities of demand. Australia presents a rare exception, with most cinemas offering cheap Tuesday ticket prices. We exploit this feature to estimate a random coefficients...

Chapter 1. Introduction: ‘Millions of People Every Day’ – Cinema as part of the quotidian of life (John Sedgwick) -- Chapter 2. Managing Risk - Key Concepts and Methods (John Sedgwick) -- Chapter 3. How did the Department of Justice Get it so Wrong? Philadelphia 1935-36: the Stanley Warner...