In the remaining cases, their researchers were not able to determine whether state actors may have participated.

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This approach, which has not previously been applied to the cinema, treats the various factors that determine a movie's success such as cultural preferences, genre, the records of the leading actors, and whether the distribution is handled by the studio or an independent company in a different way from classical econometrics with, the authors claim, more accurate results.

ECONOMIST: Film economics