Spatial and Temporal Characteristics and Influencing Factors of G20 Box Office Revenues: A Film Geography Perspective

Jiejie Wang, Mengli Zhang, Paul Adams, Peng Zheng () and Xiaoli Wang
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Jiejie Wang: School of Tourism and Events Management, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Mengli Zhang: School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Paul Adams: Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Peng Zheng: School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Xiaoli Wang: School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 24, 1-16

Abstract: The geography of film is an interdisciplinary field of geography and communication. Understanding the spatial and temporal characteristics of the global box office scale represented by the G20 is important for expanding the research scope of film geography focusing on “space” and promoting the development of film industries around the world. This paper studies the spatial and temporal characteristics and influencing factors of G20 box office revenues 2003–2019 using the Theil coefficient, spatial analysis, and a panel vector auto-regressive model. According to the research: (1) the distribution of the top box office revenues within the G20 is obvious; the scale differences among these countries are gradually decreasing and the scale differences between China and the United States are the most significant; (2) the box office differences of the G20 are gradually decreasing; the Asian movie market represented by China and South Korea is developing rapidly; (3) from the perspective of the transfer of movie box office scale types within a Markov Chain, the number of countries in type II and III is the largest and the transfer among different types is mainly to high-level types; and (4) the factors influencing the box office of G20 movies are the number of screens, per capita gross national income, the working-age population, and GDP, respectively.

Keywords: spatial and temporal characteristics; influencing factors; box office revenues; film geography; G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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