Aside from carefully constructed surveys, the best indicator of US box office success that I have found is Wikipedia page views <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pone.0071226" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal....</a><p>Outside the US it&#x27;s a harder problem <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1405.5924" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1405.5924</a>