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 ...

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 not what I expected.

I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.

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

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 ...

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 ...

I analysed almost 2,000 Oscar speeches to discover if the claim that Harvey Weinstein was thanked more often than God is true. Plus, we'll find out which Hollywood icon is bigger than both of them.

What Netflix’s patents reveal about the future of watching movies I read through almost 500 Netflix patents to look at what the streaming has been tackling, building and disrupting.

John from Israel emailed me to ask what format most Hollywood films are shot on - film or digital. The question is rather topical as recently we've seen a number of high profile films choose to shoot ...