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In this paper, some types of Chinese micro-data are used, and a Baidu search of the index data of movie names 30 days before and after the release date, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data in China, and other characteristics are introduced, and the stacking algorithm is optimized by adopting a two-layer model architecture. The first layer base learners adopt Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM), Categorical Boosting (CatBoost), the Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT), random forest (RF), and support vector regression (SVR), and the second layer meta-learner adopts a multiple linear regression model, to establish a box office prediction model with a prediction error, Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), of 14.49%. In addition, in order to study the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the movie box office, based on the data of 187 movies released from January 2020 to November 2021, and combined with a number of data features introduced earlier, this paper uses LightGBM to establish a model. 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