SMAS: An Investor-Oriented Social Media Analysis System for Movies

Movie investors seek for high box-office revenue. Usually, it is not an easy task for investors to estimate the return on their invests for movies, due to the complicated factors that could impact the box-office revenue, such as movie stars’ appeal, potential audience reactions, movie genre, and so on. In this paper, we design and implement SMAS, an investor-oriented Social Media Analysis System focusing on movie invests, which provides various modules for capturing public opinions, assessing the value of movie stars, analyzing the temporal changes of their box-office impact, and predicting box-office revenues.