Movie Buzz: Forecasting Movie’s Success

Abstract

Bollywood has reached an amazing level in terms of movies produced, its reach in the whole world and providing employment to manpower. The returns obtained are uncertain in nature. Due to this it becomes a matter of interest to develop a model which can forecast the success of movies. In this paper, a model is proposed to forecast performance of Bollywood movies. The proposed work involves collecting data from various websites. Data mining algorithms like multi-linear regression and min-max normalization algorithm are used. The results been generated will help the movie industry as well as common people to take decisions regarding movies i.e. it will act as a decision support system.