Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.
Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread. This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesome things they have done. Not "will do". Not "are working on". Have already done. This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.
So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?
(I think this is the most recent thread, so anything since January is fair game, assuming you haven't already mentioned it.)
To get data to feed your model consider buying a data set from an industry provider like box office mojo. Depending on what fields you need, they have a very solid data set with long history that could probably be purchased for less than 10000 euro depending on the confi and on sell terms your company could agree to.
"Import" might have been more accurate than "collect". We have access to the history from various sources, but we can't yet import it automatically. I'm pretty sure the data needs to be hunted down, collated and cleaned up in difficult-to-automate ways, but I haven't actually turned my attention to the problem yet.