Increased Foreign Revenue Shares in the United States Film Industry: 2000 – 2014

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2016-06-22

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Roberts, James W
Kimbrough, Kent P

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The American film industry, which has historically been driven by the domestic market, now receives an increasing proportion of its revenue from abroad (foreign share). To determine the factors influencing this trend, this paper analyzed data from 11 countries of 2,337 American films released during 2000 – 2014. Both film and country attributes were analyzed to determine each attribute’s effect on foreign share, whether its effect size has changed over time and whether each attribute has changed in frequency amongst films released. The results identified six attributes, star actors, sequels, releases in top markets, release time lag, GDP growth and a match in language, that contributed to the increase in foreign share over this period.

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Lim Zhen Yi, Victoria (2016). Increased Foreign Revenue Shares in the United States Film Industry: 2000 – 2014. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12405.


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