, we find that competition from movies by the same director or within the same movie genre decrease motion picture's box … office revenue most. Finally, we compare a movie's actual sales to estimated sales at the originally planned release date …

and 2016. It adds to existing research on national movie markets, by highlighting the relevance of differences in culture …, institutions, language, and consumption habits for movie success. Three groups of success factors are distinguished: distribution … and audience rating). We add novel region-specific variables like seasonality, time span between the world and local …