While movie$-$making is a magical process, we need to be examine the drivers that might

influence performance at the box office. The marketing department has gathered the opening

week domestic box office performance for some recent releases, along with some key variables.

Notably, these include distribution $($number of screens or number of theaters$),$ advertising

expense prior to release, production budget, and critic$$s overall review just prior to release.

I$$m told we have some smart interns who are familiar with statistics and computing and can put

together some ideas for us$.$ Hopefully you can create a model for us to better determine the

effect of these variables on performance