I gathered data on the dates of the top 50 film festivals over the past 25 years to discover when is the busiest. And it was ...

Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.

I analysed 6,926 trailers from 4,004 top-grossing films to find out if modern trailers really are too long or if I’m just ...

Are movies with plot twists better than those without? I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.

There are other elements and formatting rules but I'm focusing on the ones which affect our investigation of the one-minute-per-page rule. There are plenty of guides online on how to format a ...

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

The biggest forces reshaping the film business right now From streaming upheavals to AI-driven production, these interconnected shifts define where the business of film is headed, and the ...

Part (but not all) of the reason why top-grossing movies have a longer average run time is that there is a great number of extremely long outliers. The chart below shows the distribution of movies in ...

Can cinemas survive the next 20 years? Exhibition execs on the post-COVID recovery and beyond Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting ...