• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.213-226
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• 2024

This study uses box office data collected by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) to develop and compare predictive models for cinema attendance and revenue. Data preprocessing removed irrelevant variables and handled missing values separately for categorical and numerical data to ensure consistency. Exploratory data analysis identified key variables, including Seoul audience size, revenue, total number of screens, film genre, rating, and month of release, which revealed a strong correlation between Seoul audience size and revenue with box office performance. Based on this analysis, predictive models were developed using CatBoost and PyCaret AutoML. CatBoost was chosen for its effectiveness in handling categorical variables such as director name, production company, and genre, while PyCaret AutoML was chosen for its ability to automate the modeling process, making it easy for non-experts to compare different models. The performance of the models was evaluated using mean absolute error (MAE), root mean squared error (RMSE), and R-squared (R²), with CatBoost demonstrating superior accuracy. In addition, the SHAP technique was used to interpret the models, identifying Seoul's audience size and revenue as the most significant predictors. This research presents reliable box office prediction models that will improve decision-making in the film industry and support the development of data-driven strategies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.01a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2020

특정 영화의 스크린 독과점이 꾸준히 논란이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 영화 스크린 분배의 불평등성을 지적하고 이에 대한 개선을 요구할 근거로 머신러닝 기법을 활용한 영화 관람객 예측 모델을 제안한다. 이에 따라 KOBIS, 네이버 영화, 트위터, 구글 트렌드에서 수집한 3,143개의 영화 데이터를 이용하여 랜덤포레스트와 그라디언트 부스팅 기법을 활용한 영화 관람객 예측 모델을 구현하였다. 모델 평가 결과, 그라디언트 부스팅 모델의 RMSE는 600,486, 랜덤포레스트 모델의 RMSE는 518,989로 랜덤포레스트 모델의 예측력이 더 높았다. 예측력이 높았던 랜덤포레스트 모델을 활용, 상영관을 크게 확보하지 못 했던 봉준호 감독의 영화 '옥자'의 상영관 수를 조절하여 관람객 수를 예측, 6,345,011명이라는 결과를 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1087-1095
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• 2016

The study aims to analyze factors of box office utilizing big data. The film industry has been increasing in the scale, but the discussion on analysis and prediction of box-office hit has not secured reliability because of failing in including all relevant data. 13 films have sold 10 million tickets until the present in Korea. The study demonstrated laughs and tears as an main interior factors of box-office hit films which showed more than 10 milling tickets power. First, the study collected terms relevant to laugh and tear. Next, it schematizes how frequently laugh and tear factors could be found along the 5-film-stage (exposition - Rising action - crisis - climax - ending) and revealed box-office hit films by genre. The results of the analysis would contribute to the construction of comprehensive database for the box office predictions on future scenarios.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.859-869
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• 2011

Interest has increased in academic research regarding key factors that drive box-office success as well as the ability to predict the box-office success of a movie from a commercial perspective. This study analyzed the relationship between key success factors of a movie and box office records based on movies released in 2010 in Korea. At the pre-production investment decision-making stage, the movie genre, motion picture rating, director power, and actor power were statistically significant. At the stage of distribution decision-making process after movie production, among other factors, the influence of star actors, number of screens, power of distributors, and social media turned out to be statistically significant. We verified movie success factors through the application of a Multinomial Logit Model that used the concept of choice probabilities. The Multinomial Logit Model resulted in a higher level of accuracy in predicting box-office success compared to the Artificial Neural Network and Discriminant Analysis.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.441-452
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• 2013

This study analyzed the relationship between key film and a box office record success factors based on movies released in the first quarter of 2013 in Korea. An over-fitting problem can happen if there are too many explanatory variables inserted to regression model; in addition, there is a risk that the estimator is instable when there is multi-collinearity among the explanatory variables. For this reason, optimal variable selection based on high explanatory variables in box-office performance is of importance. Among the numerous ways to select variables, LASSO estimation applied by a generalized linear model has the smallest prediction error that can efficiently and quickly find variables with the highest explanatory power to box-office performance in order.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.85-93
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• 2017

Purpose - The volume and valence of online word-of-mouth(eWOM) have become an important part of the retailer's market success for a wide range of products. This study aims to investigate how the growth of eWOM has generated the product's final financial outcomes in the introductory period influences. Research design, data, and methodology - This study uses weekly box office performance for 117 movies released in the South Korea from July 2015 to June 2016 using Korean Film Council(KOFIC) database. 292,371 posted online review messages were collected from NAVER movie review bulletin board. Using regression analysis, we test whether eWOM incurred during the opening week is valuable to explain the last of box office performance. Three major eWOM metrics were considered after controlling for the major distributional factors. Results - Results support that major eWOM variables play a significant role in box-office outcome prediction. Especially, the growth rate of the positive eWOM volume has a significant effect on the growth potential in sales. Conclusions - The findings highlight that the speed of eWOM growth has an informational value to understand the market reaction to a new product beyond valence and volume. Movie distributors need to take positive online eWOM growth into account to make optimal screen allocation decisions after release.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.45-55
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• 2023

This paper presents a model that supports decision-makers in the Korean film industry to maximize the success of online movies. To achieve this, we collected historical box office movies and clustered them into types to propose a model predicting each type's online box office performance. We considered various features to identify factors contributing to movie success and reduced feature dimensionality for computational efficiency. We systematically classified the movies into types and predicted each type's online box office performance while analyzing the contributing factors. We used automated machine learning (AutoML) techniques to automatically propose and select machine learning algorithms optimized for the problem, allowing for easy experimentation and selection of multiple algorithms. This approach is expected to provide a foundation for informed decision-making and contribute to better performance in the film industry.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.167-173
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• 2017

With increased interest in the fourth industrial revolution represented by artificial intelligence, it has been very active to utilize bigdata and machine learning techniques in almost areas of society. Also, such activities have been realized by development of forecasting systems in various applications. Especially in the movie industry, there have been numerous attempts to predict whether they would be success or not. In the past, most of studies considered only the static factors in the process of prediction, but recently, several efforts are tried to utilize realtime social bigdata produced in SNS. In this paper, we propose the prediction technique utilizing various feedback information such as news articles, blogs and reviews as well as static factors of movies. Additionally, we also experimentally evaluate whether the proposed technique could precisely forecast their revenue targeting on the relatively successful movies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.78-98
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• 2018

On the 855 pure Korean commercial fictional movies, excluding diversity films, released in Korea from 2004 to August 2017, I conducted deciles distribution analysis of box office performance of those movies and average box office performance of directors, producers and lead actors who involved in making them. Deciles distribution analysis of average box office performance might be helpful to predict their next box office performance of newly produced Korean movies and to evaluate their contribution to box office performance. In baseball, the various index such as winning rate, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, stolen base percentage, battling average, earned run average is used for predicting and reviewing of professional players. In this study, I evaluate the script's narrative quality by the indirect method of insight and judgment of creative manpower involved in making the movies. For the more productive prediction, direct statistical analysis method on the narrative of the script needs to develop. Time series analysis is required to evaluate the rise and fall of creative manpower and network analysis is also necessary to see the interaction among creative people.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.527-538
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• 2014

The demand prediction is a critical issue for the film industry. As the social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, gains momentum of late, considerable efforts are being dedicated to prediction and analysis of hit movies based on unstructured text data. For prediction of trends found in commercially successful films, the correlations between the amount of data and hit movies may be analyzed by estimating the data variation by period while opinion mining that assigns sentiment polarity score to data may be employed. However, it is not possible to understand why the audience chooses a certain movie or which attribute of a movie is preferred by using such a quantitative approach. This has limited the efforts to identify factors driving a movie's commercial success. In this regard, this study aims to investigate a movie's attributes that reflect the interests of the audience. This would be done by extracting topic keywords that represent the contents of Twits through frequency measurement based on the collected Twitter data while analyzing responses displayed by the audience. The objective is to propose factors driving a movie's commercial success.