Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...

I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the organisers gave me complete freedom to study any aspect of the German film ...

Family secrets have held steady. Stoker hides a history of violence beneath a polished surface. We Need to Talk About Kevinbuilds tension around a mother’s fear of what her son truly is. The Skeleton ...

To test this theory, I looked at the Pearson correlation between the budget and runtime of the movies in the "Released movies" dataset (for those where a budget figure is available). The higher the ...

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film ...

Film production has become one of the most globalised industries on earth. Crews, financing, visual effects, post-production, and even actors routinely cross borders. Many American films are shot in ...

1. Keep going when no one shows up Tyler Perry’s career is defined not by his successes but by the resilience that carried him through failures. His early years saw him repeatedly attempt to launch ...

Thank you for coming to my TED talk Oscars speech The Academy Awards have evolved from a private event held in a ballroom to a globally televised spectacle. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the ...

Netflix’s patents offer a rare glimpse into the future that major streamers are building for film and television. While much of the industry debates box office figures and windowing, Netflix’s filings ...

This raises the question of whether the current decline signals the end of romance on the big screen or if it's just part of a decades-long cyclical fashion for different types of stories. The data ...