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I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.
The unvarnished truth from 246 cinema executives working on the front line of moviegoing. This is exactly what the exhibition ...
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 ...
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 ...
I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.
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.
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.
The independent feature film took 24 days to shoot in and around London. The largest costs were art department (they had to build a chip shop in an empty shop!), cast and production staff. The Above ...
Eight takeaways from the 2025 Cannes Marché du Film Under the surface of a cautious Cannes lay a more important story. This may have been the year the Marché began to redefine its role.