...mriff76: Managerial Report Use the numerical methods of descriptive statistics presented in this chapter to learn how these variables contribute to the success of a motion picture. Include the following in your report. 1. Descriptive statistics for each of the four variables along with a discussion of what the descriptive statistics tell us about the motion picture industry. 2. What motion picture, if any, should be considered high performance outliers? 3. Descriptive statistics showing the relationship between total gross sales and each of the other variables. Discuss. Motion Picture/Opening Gross/Total Gross/Number of Theaters/Weeks in Top 60 Coach Carter 29.17 67.25 2,574 16 Ladies in Lavender 0.15 6.65 119 22 Batman Begins 48.75 205.28 3,858 18 Unleashed 10.90 24.47 1,962 8 Pretty Persuasion 0.06 0.23 24 4 Fever Pitch 12.40 42.01 3,275 14 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 102.69 287.18 3,858 13 Monster-in-Law 23.11 82.89 3,424 16 White Noise 24.11 55.85 2,279 7 Mr. and Mrs. Smith 50.34 186.22 3,451 21 Be Cool 23.45 55.81 3,216 8 Modigliani 0.03 0.13 9 4 Flightplan 24.63 89.69 3,424 21 Steamboy 0.14 0.36 46 3 Lost Embrace 0.02 0.05 5 1 Kung Fu Hustle 0.27 17.08 2,503 16 Howl's Moving Castle 0.43 4.61 202 11 War of the Worlds 77.06 234.21 3,910 19 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 0.02...
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...Motion Picture Industry November 24, 2013 Traci Wells MTH 410 Marilyn Simon Motion Picture Industry Creating a major motion picture to release to the masses can be a difficult task for any movie maker. Certain methods can be used to support and reassure the movie makers will have a return on their investments. The most effective method is the use of descriptive statistics, including the average, median, mode, range, and deviation of Opening Weekend Gross Sales (OWGS), Total Gross Sales (TGS), Number of Theatres (NOT), and Weeks in Top 60 (WIT60). Using a sample of 100 movies from 2005 it was found that all four variables were closely tied to determining a movies success. Using the date, the OWGS can help movie makes anticipate how much money a movie will make over its entire time in theatres. While this method isn’t always accurate, using the data from the 100 movies we see that the movie that had the best OWGS (Star Wars: Episode III) also had the most TGS, even though it wasn’t in the most NOT’s nor did it have the most WIT60. However, the NOT’s and WIT60 are also a factor. In the table below we can see the correlation between these factors. Star Wars: Episode III should be considered a high performance outlier due to its substantial TGS over all other movies regardless of the NOT and WIT60. Motion Picture | Opening Gross Sales | Total Gross Sales | Number of Theaters | Weeks in Top 60 | Star Wars: Episode III | 108.44 | 380.18 | 3,663 | 19 | Harry Potter...
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...Did you See That? The movie industry is one that has been around for many years and just keeps getting bigger. This case study gives numerous amounts of money that movies have made opening weekend and the total gross sales. It also provides how many movie theaters the film was in and how many weeks it was in the Top 60. By looking at this information and using descriptive statistics, we can come to some conclusions about this industry. Descriptive Statistics Variable | Sample Size | Mean | SE Mean | Standard Deviation | Range | Opening gross | 100 | 9.38 | 1.89 | 18.87 | 108.43 | Total gross | 100 | 33.04 | 6.32 | 63.16 | 380.15 | # of theaters | 100 | 1,278 | 138 | 1,379 | 3905 | Weeks in Top 60 | 100 | 8.680 | 0.0639 | 6.390 | 26.0 | Variable | Minimum | Q1 | Median | Q3 | Maximum | Opening gross | 0.0100 | 0.0625 | .0395 | 12.49 | 108.44 | Total gross | 0.0300 | 0.375 | 5.854 | 47.69 | 380.18 | # of theaters | 5.00 | 45.3 | 410 | 2732 | 3910 | Weeks in Top 60 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 7.00 | 13.00 | 27.00 | What Does this Tell Us? Opening Weekend Gross Sales: The mean or average of opening weekend in gross sales in $9.38 million. The range between the sales is large and can be as little as $10,000 to as high as $108.44 million. The five-number summary is .01, .0625, .0395, 12.49 and 108.44. The top 25% of the movies had an opening weekend gross sale amount of $12.49 million or more. While 50% of the movies grossed $395,000 or less and the other 25% at an...
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...Lisa Cooper CSU-Global Campus Quantitative Business Analysis MTH410 Mod 2 Critical Thinking Dr. Barry Smith 7/20/2011 The quantitative analysis of the Motion Picture Industry provided by the textbook with the data set reveals many key aspects of the industry. Utilizing the descriptive statistics for each of the four variables in the data set can include mean, mode, median, z-score, standard deviation, dispersion, and correlation coefficient. Outliers are defined as a data set that has unusually large or unusually small values will also be determined using the same statistics (Anderson, et al., 2011). An evaluation of these descriptive statistics and the relationship between the total gross sales will be the focus of this critical thinking exercise. Good introduction. The first data set includes opening day gross revenues. The median opening day gross was .39 which means that half of the movies in this data set were less than .39 and the rest were more than .39. The median is the middle of an ordered score of an odd number of data or half way between the even two numbers. The mean was 9.38 and the standard deviation was 18.875 based on 100 movies (Expert, 2011). Simple mean is calculated with the follow formula: x=Ex1/n.The opening day variance is .03 to 108.44 ($ millions) equaling 108.43. Therefore with a median of .39 and a mean of 9.38 indicates that there are many movies on opening day that are not making money and a few are making much money...
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...What we can say for sure about “Casablanca” is that it is no ordinary movie. It is the movie. It has lived across time to win audiences who were born decades after it was made. Sooner or later, usually sees "Casablanca," and then it they fall in love with it. Centuries from now, it is very likely that people will be still watching “Casablanca,” but well this can happen when a movie is immortal. It was my second time seeing “Casablanca” and the experience was not boring at all, in fact I think that the second time was more interesting than the first. Hence, the more you see it the more the whole film gains resonance. The first time we see the film we do not know what the relationship between Ilsa and Rick is, we understand that there was something between the two of them but are not able to fully understand it or to grasp all the nuances of their relationship. However, when you see the movie a second time you know the depth of Ilsa’s and rick’s feelings for each other, and we are able to see the meaning behind every word, glance and of the song “As time goes by”. The film is good when you see it the first time, but the second time you feel part of the film, you feel like Sam, who knows everything and watches from afar. The character of Viktor Lazlo seems very strange to me, particularly if we consider that he is a war hero. I think that his whole character should be more passionate and active. Lazlo not only appear blind to the undercurrent of feelings between Rick and Ilsa...
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...Solutions to Case Problems Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations Case Problem 1: Pelican Stores 1. There were 70 Promotional customers and 30 Regular customers. Because there are 100 observations in the sample, the frequency and percent frequency distribution are the same. Percent frequency distributions for many of the variables are given. No. of Items | Percent Frequency | 1 | 29 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 or more | 8 | Total: | 100 | Net Sales | Percent Frequency | 0.00 - 24.99 | 9 | 25.00 - 49.99 | 30 | 50.00 - 74.99 | 25 | 75.00 - 99.99 | 10 | 100.00 - 124.99 | 12 | 125...
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...Case Problem 2: Motion Picture Industry This case provides the opportunity to use numerical methods to continue the analysis of the motion picture industry data from chapter 2. Using descriptive statistics such as the mean, median, standard deviation and range. Five-number summaries and identification of outliers are also used. Descriptive Statistics Variable | N | Mean | Median | Standard Deviation | Range | Opening Gross | 100 | 9.37 | 0.39 | 18.8747021 | 108.43 | Total Gross | 100 | 33.04 | 5.85 | 63.1646927 | 380.15 | Number of Theaters | 100 | 1278 | 410 | 1378.68944 | 3905 | Weeks in Top 60 | 100 | 8.68 | 7 | 6.8 | 26 | | | | | | | Variable | Minimum | Q1 | Median | Q3 | Maximum | Opening Gross | 0.01 | 0.06375 | 0.39 | 12.43025 | 108.44 | Total Gross | 0.03 | 0.04275 | 5.85 | 47.43475 | 380.18 | Number of Theaters | 0.03 | 45.75 | 410 | 2626.5 | 3910 | Weeks in Top 60 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 27 | Interpretation Opening Gross Sales The mean opening gross sales is $9.37 million. The five-number summery is .01, .0637, .039, 12.43 and 108.44. This data shows that the opening gross sales is extremely variable and ranges from $10,000 to $108.44 million. 50% of the motion pictures had an opening gross sales of less then $395,000 or less. The top 25% of the motion pictures had opening gross sales of $12.49 million or more. Total Gross Sales The mean total gross sales are $33.04 million. The five-number summary is .03, .04275, 5...
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...Study: Motion Picture Industry Assignment 1 Prepared By: Table of Contents Introduction 3 Executive Summary 3 Data and General Analysis 4 CONCLUSIONS 12 Integrity Statement 13 Works Cited 13 Executive Summary In this report we will show, via descriptive statistics, how independent variables appear to contribute to the success of motion pictures. Using data collected from a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005, we utilize the following variables: Opening Weekend Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Total Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Number of Theaters, and; Weeks in Top 60, to graphically depict their contribution to that success. We will also display the data in both tabular and graphical methods to allow management to make inferences about the data and ultimately enable decision making with reference to the data set. There are more variables and parameters available to determine each depicted variable’s contribution to the success (or lack of success) of the motion picture, but this report only analyzed, interprets and presents with reference to the four variables mentioned. Major highlights include: * 70% of the motion pictures in the sample had Opening Weekend Gross Sales of less than $10 million. * 73% of the motion pictures in the sample had Total Gross Sales of less than $40 million. * 45% of the motion pictures in the sample were shown in 250 or less theaters. * 65% of the motion pictures in the...
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...Kent Tsao RTVF 271 The censorship in American Film The earliest motion picture was initially exposed by a Californian Eadweard Muybridge around the year of 1875 with the bet of whether or not all four hooves of a horse are off the ground during racing, which the idea was further developed by a well known inventor Thomas Alva Edison and one of his employees William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, who was an electrical engineer and photographer. After a series of experiments on the mechanics and the film medium itself, Edison’s company, not only invented the devices that fundamentally change the world like telephone and electric and etc., but also introduced the first ever motion picture apparatus, Kinetograph, therefore “movies in America were born.” (Jon Lewis, American Film 10) The year was 1891, only 16 years apart from Eadweard Muybridge’s unintended discovery. Since then, the wind of motion pictures had been blew to European countries like Great Britain and France. 1895, two French people, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, as known as the Lumiere brothers first showcased the motion pictures using Cinematographe to general public thus declared the era of silent movies. Soon a year later, in 1896, Thomas Edison also showcased the motion pictures to the general public with Vitascope, the first time in America cinema history. After the success of nickelodeon parlors and other film houses, the early movies play a significant role of “emerging consumer culture, in which one paid one’s...
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...Motion Picture Production Code Hollywood’s morals were quickly declining and people were noticing. To prevent government censorship and continue operating without facing consequences like fines or jail time, Hollywood studios needed to change. This is when the Motion Picture Production Code was introduced to prevent the government from getting involved. Hollywood stars were involved in several risqué films and a series of off-screen scandals such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Many people felt the movie industry had always been morally questionable. Political pressure was increasing, with legislators in 37 states introducing almost 100 movie censorship bills in 1921. In 1922, Hollywood studios enlisted Will H. Hays to rehabilitate Hollywood’s image. The move to enlist Hays mimicked the decision major league baseball had made in hiring Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as league commissioner to quell questions about integrity of baseball after the 1919 world series gambling scandal. New York Times even called Hays the “Screen Landis”. In 1929, a catholic layman, Martin Qurgley and the Jesuit priest Father Daniel A. Lord created a code of standards and submitted it to the studios. Lord was specifically concerned with the effects of sound film on children, he considered children to be especially susceptible to their allure. In February of 1930, studio heads met with Lord and Qurgley...
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...This document is attributed to Jack Lule and Flat World Knowledge 8.2 Movies and Culture LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. 2. Recognize how movies reflect cultural attitudes, trends, and events. Indicate how movies influence culture. Movies Mirror Culture The relationship between movies and culture involves a complicated dynamic; while American movies certainly influence the mass culture that consumes them, they are also an integral part of that culture, a product of it, and therefore a reflection of prevailing concerns, attitudes, and beliefs. In considering the relationship between film and culture, it is important to keep in mind that, while certain ideologies may be prevalent in a given era, not only is American culture as diverse as the populations that form it, but it is also constantly changing from one period to the next. Mainstream films produced in the late 1940s and into the 1950s, for example, reflected the conservatism that dominated the sociopolitical arenas of the time. However, by the 1960s, a reactionary youth culture began to emerge in opposition to the dominant institutions, and these antiestablishment views soon found their way onto screen—a far cry from the attitudes most commonly represented only a few years earlier. In one sense, movies could be characterized as America’s storytellers. Not only do Hollywood films reflect certain commonly held attitudes and beliefs about what it means to be American, but they also portray contemporary trends, issues, and...
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...About ten years before the birth of noir cinema, guidelines for cinematic content in America began being enforced. The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association or MPPDA adopted a code which set forth a list of specific do’s and don’ts of the film industry (Medoff). The code was known for being exhaustingly repressive, forbidding almost anything that was deemed “bad” or anything subject to give audiences the wrong idea (Cook). The birth of noir during this era is fascinating because everything we know about noir is contradictory to this code’s repression of humanity’s darkness. This led to many arguments between producers and noir directors. Often, this dispute led to directors submitting to the producers and inserting what would...
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...FUNdaMENTALS of Design Alexander H. Slocum Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA slocum@mit.edu ™ FUNdaMENTALS of Design Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering This book was made possible by a generous gift from Neil and Jane Pappalardo Support for this book was also provided by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and iCampus the Microsoft-MIT Alliance ©2007 Alexander H. Slocum ABOUT This Book A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his. "You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..." Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?"1 This book is about helping people to learn how to create their own future! It does this by taking advantage of the fact that the reader’s LEFT brain sees the LEFT side (FUN) of the book. The RIGHT brain sees the (MENTAL) side of the book. Its simply FUNdaMENTAL! This in itself is a key feature of this book: It seeks to train the brain to think by many a link. Creating things is NOT done by following a monotonous recipe... The ability to create can be learned by anyone who has a yearn to learn! But the eye must be quick to sort and pick! Embedded inside, many...
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...Freedom to Know I once heard that everyone has their own way of thinking or own opinion. There are many people who have different feelings about issues. Content sharing, File sharing, or Piracy; whatever you want to call this issue. I have studied many ways and resources in this topic. I have looked at many articles on this issue. There is much to be discussed on the topic and things can get pretty heated about it. My view on file sharing is that we should be allowed to do what we want with the information we provide. I feel very strongly about this issue and I like to make my voice be heard on the topic whenever it may come up. Well I want to start off and give the opposite view of what people who are against my file sharing have to say. People say that file sharing is stealing and liken it to steal a physical piece of property (Mossberg, 2013). Artist are often hate file sharing because they feel they lose money from people sharing there cd and other property. Even artists have declared war on file sharing and claim they have lost money because of it (Smith, 2013). There are also big companies that have formed to and try and combat file sharing or “piracy”. Companies like the RIAA and MPAA have vowed and have worked with congress to end piracy. RIAA has what their view of file sharing is and how it hurts their industry. File sharing is not just an issue among certain media, software, and gaming industries. Many countries have very strict laws against file sharing...
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...December 4, 2012 Article Summary According to the first article How TV Affects Your Child, children under the age of six (including two-thirds of infants and toddlers) watch two hours of some sort of media screen a day. These hours increase to almost six hours a day for children ages eight to eight-teen years of age. This is a huge difference to what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends; children under the age of two years should not watch any TV (screen time could interfere with brain and social development) and children older than two years of age should not watch any more than two hours of quality programming a day (screen time could interfere with social, academic, and physically actives). There are a lot of positive attributes TV can offer: quality programming can teach young children the alphabet or interesting facts about nature and adults can stay current with the evening news. However, a little TV goes a long way. Children who watch violent media are less likely to trust the outside world and more likely to have aggressive behaviors. American children watch, on average, two hundred thousand violent acts on TV by the time they reach the age of eight-teen years old. All this violence gives children a mixed message. While us adults say it is “not nice” to hit the so-called “hero” shows hitting is the way to fight the “bad guys”. How is this showing our youth the difference between right and wrong? Young children cannot distinguish between what is real and...
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