Popularity prediction of movies: from statistical modeling to machine learning techniques

Film industries all over the world are producing several hundred movies rapidly and grabbing the attraction of people of all ages. Every movie producer is of keen interest in knowing which movies are either likely to hit or flop in the box office. So, the early prediction of the popularity of a movie is of the utmost importance to the film industry. In this study, we examine factors inside the hidden patterns which become movie popular. In past studies, machine learning techniques were implemented on blog articles, social networking, and social media to predict the success of a movie.