This paper examines the determinants of box office revenue in the motion picture industry. The sample consists of 505 films released during 2001-2003. Regression results indicate the primary determinants of box office earnings are critic reviews, award nominations, sequels, Motion Picture Association of America rating, budget, and release exposure. Specific results include the observation that ...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe food and beverage brand placements in a large representative sample of popular movies. METHODS: We identified and coded brand placements for foods, beverages, and food retail establishments in the top 20 US box officemovie hits for each year from 1996 to 2005. We also coded general movie characteristics (Motion Picture Association of Americ...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe food and beverage brand placements in a large representative sample of popular movies. METHODS: We identified and coded brand placements for foods, beverages, and food retail establishments in the top 20 US box officemovie hits for each year from 1996 to 2005. We also coded general movie characteristics (Motion Picture Association of Americ...

This paper presents a higher level representation for videos aiming at video genre retrieval. In video genre retrieval, there is a challenge that videos may comprise multiple categories, for instance, news videos may be composed of sports, documentary, and action. Therefore, it is interesting to encode the distribution of such genres in a compact and effective manner. We propose to create a vis...

The introduction of digital video to the personal computer has generated interest in the integration of image sequences into the user interface. Traditional means of representing an image sequence lack the manipulability desired, requiring that an alternative approach be taken. Previous work in the eld of computer graphics and videodisc applications suggest synthetic movies as the solution. A s...

Antiquity appears in films from the very beginning of cinema. As other examples reception, presence antiquity depends on context specificity medium which includes relationship with audience, as well personal mark author. The subject this paper are two movies set antiquity: Roman Scandals (1933) and Life Brian (1977). Both comedies, plots ancient past, both satirical, meaning that they have a co...

The issue of fair treatment given to males and females in the classroom discourse is currently discussed worldwide. notion gender equality that facilitates similar access for boys girls education among striving achieve such conditions. This study tries give an overview two popular movies can be used disseminate idea students elementary schools. Wonder woman Captain Marvel were chosen as data th...

This paper summarizes our contribution (team DBIS) to the AcousticBrainz Genre Task: Content-based music genre recognition from multiple sources as part of MediaEval 2017. We utilize a hierarchical set of multilabel classifiers to predict genres and subgenres and rely on a voting scheme to predict labels across datasets.