The popularity of a particular film largely depends on word-of-mouth recommendations according to a new study by statistical physicists in the US and Chile. César Hidalgo of the University of Notre Dame and colleagues have also developed a quantitative indicator of a film's quality, which they say could be used by film producers and studios to estimate the commercial value of a movie (New J. Phys. 8 52).
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