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The paper provides an empirical analysis of box office performances for a sample of top 10 and top 50 grossing movies from 2014 to 2018. We use data of box office revenues to calculate the distribution of total box office revenues on the movies considered in the sample. Descriptive evidence documents a concentration of revenues on a small number of movies. Moreover, we try to understand whether the variables domestic box office revenues and number of copies distributed of a movie have a relation to the total box office revenues.
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Bagnasco, A.M. (2020). Trends in the Italian Movie Sector: Evidence from Box Office Performances. In: Tsounis, N., Vlachvei, A. (eds) Advances in Cross-Section Data Methods in Applied Economic Research. ICOAE 2019. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38253-7_34
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