Complexity in the Movies

A. De Vany

Working Papers from California Irvine - School of Social Sciences

Abstract: Ancient industry wisdom has it that motion picture audiences and box office revenues are starkly uncertain. It is only with the development of the sciences of complexity that we can begin to grasp what very producer awaiting first-weekend box office reports about his movie has always known - the business is terrifyingly uncertain.

Keywords: FILMS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 1997
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