Hollywood blockbusters and long-tailed distributions: An empirical study of the popularity of movies Export

@misc{citeulike:624, abstract = {Numerical data for all movies released in theaters in the USA during the period 1997-2003 are examined for the distribution of their popularity in terms of (i) the number of weeks they spent in the Top 60 according to the weekend earnings, and (ii) the box-office gross during the opening week, as well as, the total duration for which they were shown in theaters. These distributions show long tails where the most popular movies are located. Like the study of Redner [S. Redner, Eur. Phys. J. B 4, 131 (1998)] on the distribution of citations to individual papers, our results are consistent with a power-law dependence of the rank distribution of gross revenues for the most popular movies with a exponent close to -1/2.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Sinha, Sitabhra and Raghavendra, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {624}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406726}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0406726}, eprint = {cond-mat/0406726}, keywords = {financial-networks, powerlaws}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2004-11-15 21:07:09}, title = {Hollywood blockbusters and long-tailed distributions: An empirical study of the popularity of movies}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406726}, year = {2004} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:624 L3 - citeulike-article-id:624 N2 - Numerical data for all movies released in theaters in the USA during the period 1997-2003 are examined for the distribution of their popularity in terms of (i) the number of weeks they spent in the Top 60 according to the weekend earnings, and (ii) the box-office gross during the opening week, as well as, the total duration for which they were shown in theaters. These distributions show long tails where the most popular movies are located. Like the study of Redner [S. Redner, Eur. Phys. J. B 4, 131 (1998)] on the distribution of citations to individual papers, our results are consistent with a power-law dependence of the rank distribution of gross revenues for the most popular movies with a exponent close to -1/2. TI - Hollywood blockbusters and long-tailed distributions: An empirical study of the popularity of movies KW - financial-networks KW - powerlaws AU - Sinha, Sitabhra AU - Raghavendra, S PY - 2004/06/29/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406726 ER -