I crunched 25 years of trade press coverage, ticket sales across 36 countries and Netflix's global charts to work out what a ...

Once you notice that the names at the top of a movie poster rarely match the faces beneath, you start to wonder why it ...

I collected 57 published accounts of filmmakers opening their books on marketing and release spend, from a $1,000 theatrical ...

I followed the careers of 1,765 directors of top grossing films to work out who gets another go after a first film that doesn ...

My latest Film Data Scientist video, this time looking at the numbers behind the age of directors. If you would like a slightly more… ahem… sensible reading of ...

Let’s start with the seemingly incongruous situation. Hollywood as an industry has been honing its craft for well over a century. Given the power, prestige, and money on offer, it attracts some of the ...

Since 2005, Franklin Leonard has run an annual survey of film industry insiders, asking for their favourite screenplays of the year that have not yet been made. The result, the Black List, has become ...

“We’re moments away from uploading a script and making movies!” (This is usually followed by the person trying to get me to look at a demo of their “ground-breaking” vibe-coded AI-to-storyboard ...