Abstract: The prediction of film box-office revenues is a hot research area in the Globalfilm industry.A rich film database is the cornerstone for such research.Aiming at the gap between the film industries in China and western countries,and the limited records of Chinese domestic films,this paper established a database of Chinese domestic films for box-office revenue forecasting.Firstly,the global status of film box-office revenue forecasting research is reviewed.Secondly, the ideas and detailed procedures of establishing a database of domestic films are introduced.Finally,a comparison between the proposed database and the well-established databases of films from other countries is performed by using the same box-office revenue prediction method.The test results show that the proposed database shares a similar performance with other databases,confirming that the domestic film database is valid for forecasting box-office revenues.

Key words: Box-office revenues, Chinese domestic films, Database, Film industry, Prediction