Hallmark movies are a hit. While most broadcast networks in the United States and Canada struggling to maintain an audience, has launched three additional cable services past four years. Much of this success can be attributed Hallmark’s investment—both ideological economic—in made-for-TV movie, form programing that re-popularized re-branded—and transformed into genre. To work through my suggest...

We consider the problem of predicting a movie’s opening weekend revenue. Previous work on this problem has used metadata about a movie—e.g., its genre, MPAA rating, and cast—with very limited work making use of text about the movie. In this paper, we use the text of film critics’ reviews from several sources to predict opening weekend revenue. We describe a new dataset pairing movie reviews wit...

This paper proposes shot genre classification from MPEG compressed movies, as one of the high-level indexing methods for audio-visual contents. Through statistical analysis of low-level and mid-level audio-visual features on compressed domain, the proposed method can achieve subjectively accurate shot classification within the movies into predefined genre set, which can be applied to various co...

Video files are large and usually take long time to view. Manual browsing and organizing a big collection of video files is tedious and impractical. The goal of this project is to develop an automatic method for video classification based on their genre,. Take movie as examples, the program will classify movies into action movies, comedy movies, tragedy movies, etc. In other words, our algorith...

This study investigated the accuracy of gender-specific stereotypes about movie-genre preferences for 17 genres. In Study 1, female and male participants rated the extent to which 17 movie genres are preferred by women or men. In Study 2, another sample of female and male participants rated their own preference for each genre. There were three notable results. First, Study 1 revealed the existe...

The concept of genre has had a significant place in cinema studies since the 1970s. Genre films are commercial feature telling identical stories with similar characters. Definition and debate genus genres tended to focus on mainstream, general Hollywood particular. In this study, it is aimed make generic evaluation movie Cape Fear directed by John Lee Thompson 1962. was selected teleological sa...

Currently, users and consumers can review and rate products through online services, which provide huge databases that can be used to explore people's preferences and unveil behavioral patterns. In this work, we investigate patterns in movie ratings, considering IMDb (the Internet Movie Database), a highly visited site worldwide, as a source. We find that the distribution of votes presents scal...

This paper addresses the issue of unobserved heterogeneity in film characteristics influence on boxoffice. We argue that the analysis of pooled samples, most common among researchers, does not shed light on underlying segmentations and leads to significantly different estimates obtained by researchers running similar regressions for movie success modeling. For instance, it may be expected that ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the use and potential of the psychological theory of human-behavior modeling, called the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), in a user-modeling domain. We performed a user experiment involving a well-studied problem of user modeling, i.e., a recommender system (RS) for movies. As a part of the TPB, a survey to estimate the behavioral, normative and control...