Download pdf
Analysis of Business Factors Influencing Film Revenue
- 1 King’s College London
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The level of film income directly determines the success of the film's commercial awareness. It not only directly reflects the audience's acceptance and market influence of the film, but also has a profound impact on the development of the film industry. In order to explore the various factors affecting film revenue, this paper selects all the feature films that have been released worldwide from 2022 to 2023, and uses statistical methods to conduct linear regression analysis on six influencing factors, including film budget, audience rating, number of votes, popularity value, release date and film duration, with the help of R data analysis software, so as to evaluate the impact of each factor on the film revenue. In addition, by establishing a linear regression model between the influencing factors and the total income of the film, and based on the analysis of variance based on this model, this paper analyzes these influencing factors one by one. The results showed that except for the release date, which had no significant negative correlation effect on revenue, the other influencing factors were all significantly positive. When considering the significant interaction factors, the combination of number of votes and audience rating has a strong positive impact on revenue, while the combination of audience rating and popularity value and the number of votes and popularity value have negative impacts.
Keywords
Film Revenue, Film Industry, Linear Regression, Empirical Research, Analysis of Variance
[1]. “Film.” baidubaike, baidu, Accessed 19 Dec. 2024. https://baike.baidu.com/item/film/31689.
[2]. “FAQ.” British Film Institute, 24 Nov. 2019. https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national-archive/search-bfi-archive/bfi-
[3]. Wang Zheng, Xu Min. Analysis of the influencing factors of movie box office: A study based on the Logit model [J]. Exploration of economic issues, 2013(11):96-102. DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1006-2912.2013.11.017.
[4]. “Popularity & Trending” TMDB, (n.d.), https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/popularity-and-trending
[5]. Jing Yi, Guangming Hou, Jianxun Wu. (2021) The four dimensions of building a film power in the post-epidemic era [J]. Contemporary cinema, (6):111-121. DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1002-4646.2021.06.017.
[6]. Qi Wei. (2015) Fan Movie Preference, Viewing Orientation and Box Office Balance: A Study on the Current Situation of Online Movie Ratings [C]// Proceedings of the 3rd China Film and Television Youth Forum.pp.39-49.
[7]. Hong Zhang, Qinqin Wang. (2008) Risk Control of High-budget Film Operations: Analysis of the Production and Marketing of "Transformers" [J]. Contemporary cinema, (12):70-73
[8]. Xiaoli Hu, Bo Li, Zhangpeng Wu. Analysis of the influencing factors of the movie box office [J]. Journal of Communication University of China (Natural Science Edition), 2013, 20(1):62-67,39. DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-4793.2013.01.011.
[9]. Hao, B. (2023). The Analysis of the Factors that Influence the Film Revenue. Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology, 47, 154-159. https://doi.org/10.54097/hset.v47i.8184
[10]. Okumuş, M. Sami. (2022) The effects of Covid-19 pandemic on audience practices in cinema, television, and OTT platforms. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 21.43: 133-147.
Cite this article
Zhang,H. (2025). Analysis of Business Factors Influencing Film Revenue. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,166,1-7.
Data availability
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
Disclaimer/Publisher's Note
The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s). EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content.
About volume
Volume title: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business and Policy Studies
© 2024 by the author(s). Licensee EWA Publishing, Oxford, UK. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and
conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Authors who
publish this series agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the series right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this
series.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the series's published
version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial
publication in this series.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and
during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See
Open access policy for details).