UK—(ENEWSPF)–22 August 2013. Researchers have devised a mathematical model which can be used to predict films that become blockbusters or flops at the box office – up to a month before the movie is released. Their model is based on an analysis of the activity on Wikipedia pages about American films released in 2009 and 2010. They examined 312 movies, taking into account the number of page views for the movie’s article, the number of human editors contributing to the article, the number of edits made and the diversity of online users. The researchers from Oxford University, UK, the Central European University at Budapest, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, have published their findings in the journal PLoS ONE.
