Audiences are nearly twice as likely to describe Matt Damon as trustworthy or honest, compared with actors in general, ...

A year ago I spoke at the Creators Conference of the German Producers Alliance in Munich, detailing the interesting bifurcation in German cinema. (You can read my article write-up here Why German ...

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 ...