I have been asked a number of times over the years to study actors and the acting profession. The interested parties tend to ...

A few months ago I noted a steep drop in UK feature film production (mostly in the lowest budget range). Since then, the topic of feature film production has come up often in conversations I have with ...

A common belief among sales and distribution professionals is that “names sell”. As in, films starring famous actors (“names”) are more marketable than films without any famous names. But how true is ...

Almost exactly two years ago I wrote an article entitled “How many UK films get a cinema release?” which was a response to a reader’s question. In the piece, I referenced data published by the BFI ...

In response to last week’s blog looking at the number of films made in the UK, Jason Attar asked how many of the feature films made in the UK actually reach cinemas. Thanks Jason, good question. This ...

Last week I shared some results from a survey I conducted of 542 film industry business professionals who have attended Cannes, AFM or Berlin in the past five years. I looked at their perceptions of ...

Last week, a reader reached out to ask a question around film reviews. They were discussing the critical reaction to Tenet with friends and one suggested that many of the poor reviews were unreliable ...

In the past, I have explored various facets of swearing in films, such as which country produces the most expletive-laden movies, the prevalence of swear words in different genres and how swearing can ...

Attending a film festival is an exciting experience. It can also be expensive, surprising, inspiring, trying, exhausting, exhilarating, unpredictable, frustrating ...

The profitability of independent films is a complicated topic for a whole variety of reasons. I can’t think of any other industry which requires so much money to be spent while offering so little ...

It: Chapter Two is an unusual horror film because it’s almost three hours long. This means it is longer than 99.78% of all horror films made over the past twenty years. Earlier in the year Avengers: ...

In the second of four articles we wrote for the American Film Market, Bruce Nash and I looked at the relative popularity of genres around the world. We studied the territorial breakdown of theatrical ...