This article investigates historical trends of mean shot durations in 9,400 English-language and 1,550 non-English-language movies released between 1912 and 2013. For the sound-era movies of both sets there is little evidence indicating anything other than a linear decline plotted on a logarithmic scale, with the English-language set providing stronger results. In a subsample of 24 English-lang...

Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that "the best" alternatives are qualitatively different from "the rest"; yet experts routinely fail to predict which products will succeed. We investigated this paradox experimentally, by creating an artificial "music market" in which 14,341 participants downloaded previously unknown songs either with or witho...

Inertia, together with intensity and valence, is an important component of emotion. We tested whether positive and negative events generate lingering changes in subsequent brain responses to unrelated threat stimuli and investigated the impact of individual anxiety. We acquired fMRI data while participants watched positive or negative movie-clips and subsequently performed an unrelated task wit...

Grouping people into clusters based on the items they have purchased allows accurate recommendations of new items for purchase: If you and I have liked many of the same movies, then I will probably enjoy other movies that you like. Recommending items based on similarity of interest (a.k.a. collaborative ltering) is attractive for many domains: books, CDs, movies, etc., but does not always work ...

Unauthorized copying of movies is a major concern for the motion picture industry. While unauthorized copies of movies have been distributed via portable physical media for some time, low-cost, high-bandwidth Internet connections and peer-to-peer file sharing networks provide highly efficient distribution media. Many movies are showing up on file sharing networks shortly after, and in some case...

In this paper we investigate the online video on demand problem, namely having to accept or reject a request for a movie without knowing the future requests. We present online movie-scheduling schemes that implement the principles of refusal by choice and delayed noti4cation. A novel way to schedule movies that exploits the knowledge of the distribution of the preference of requests for movies,...

This paper describes the part of recommender system designed for movies’ critics recognition. Such a system allows the automatic collection, evaluation and rating of critics and opinions of the movies. First the system searches and retrieves texts supposed to be movies’ reviews from the Internet. Subsequently the system carries out an evaluation and rating of movies’ critics. Finally the system...

This article examines the evidence that supports an association between seeing smoking depictions in movies and adolescent smoking. The portrayal of tobacco use is common in movies and often is modeled by stars, who, from a social influences standpoint, should be powerful behavior change agents. The results of studies that assess audience responses to tobacco portrayal in movies are remarkably ...

With the explosion of internet users on the web, finding the right choice for the user is a tedious task. Collaborative filtering one of the most commonly used Recommender system recommends the movies based on user preferences. However, it requires expensive computations to find the similarity as the number of users and movies increases. Hence, DECORS a Movie Recommender is proposed which provi...