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In this work, we propose a machine learning-based method for predicting the movie box-office revenue of a country based on the empirical comparisons of eight methods with diverse combinations of economic factors. Specifically, we achieved a prediction performance of the relative root mean squared error of 0.056 in the US and of 0.183 in China for the two case studies of movie markets in time-series forecasting experiments from 2013 to 2016. We concluded that the support-vector-machine-based method using gross domestic product reached the best prediction performance and satisfies the easily available information of economic factors. The computational experiments and comparison studies provided evidence for the effectiveness and advantages of our proposed prediction strategy. In the validation process of the predicted total box-office markets in 2017, the error rates were 0.044 in the US and 0.066 in China. In the consecutive predictions of nationwide box-office markets in 2018 and 2019, the mean relative absolute percentage errors achieved were 0.041 and 0.035 in the US and China, respectively. The precise predictions, both in the training and validation data, demonstrate the efficiency and versatility of our proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24050711","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,16]],"date-time":"2022-05-16T13:06:23Z","timestamp":1652706383000},"page":"711","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Predicting Box-Office Markets with Machine Learning Methods"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Dawei","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7742-9161","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhi-Ping","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"41","DOI":"10.1111\/ijmr.12036","article-title":"Cultural Industries: Product\u2013Market Characteristics, Management Challenges and Industry Dynamics","volume":"17","author":"Peltoniemi","year":"2015","journal-title":"Int. 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