Факторы, влияющие на сборы фильмов в разных регионах

With the ever expanding and globalizing market, Hollywood Studios cannot depend only on domestic revenues. So in this paper we attempt to analyze if the factors impacting film revenues are the same for USA, CIS-region and Ukraine. In the film industry the CIS market is regarded as the combination of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, while Ukraine has been regarded as a separate market since 2007. Our goal is to determine if the film markets in this region differ. We use two models, one to see overall significant factors for a market and one to determine the factors significant for top box office performance. According to the empirical investigation, we found that in the same model, factors that were significant varied between the regions and as did the magnitude of their impact. We can conclude that different genres, awards and measures of star power are significant for the regions. What separates this paper from other researches is the fact that we managed to collect and analyze a sample bigger and more nuanced than it was usually done before.. Despite the drawbacks in the model, the information criteria, Durbin-Watson statistics and