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2. Are the Most Expensive Movies the Most Successful?

Author : Barrie Gunter

Published in: Predicting Movie Success at the Box Office

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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One of the factors that has emerged as consistently related to the box office success of movies is the size of their budget. Regardless of the impact of other variables, when studios spend more money on movies, they generally get bigger returns. This predictor of movie success at the box office is not perfect, however. There have been big-budget movies that have flopped. Likewise, there have been small-budget movies that have generated huge profits. The dynamics of the budget size effects are examined along with exceptions and what might be learned from them.

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Title: Are the Most Expensive Movies the Most Successful?
Author: Barrie Gunter
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Predicting Movie Success at the Box Office
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-71802-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-71803-3

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71803-3_2