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 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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, the Chinese market for Hollywood films has flourished so much that Chinese consumer demand is already affecting the content of Hollywood's creative output.