An expanded version of the paper "Predicting Movie Grosses: Winners and Losers, Blockbusters and Sleepers" by J.S. Simonoff and I.R. Sparrow, which appeared in Chance in the Summer, 2000, issue, can be obtained by clicking here.
The data set analyzed in the paper is available as two TAB-delimited ASCII files. The 1998 data are here. The 1999 data are here.