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Why Box-Office Surprises Are Becoming More Common

08/10/2013

LA Times

Predicting a weekend movie ticket-grossing champ is harder than ever as pre-release audience tracking has become less and less reliable...
LINK: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-movie-tr...
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