What 246 cinema professionals think about the state of theatrical exhibition, what's going wrong, and who's to blame.

Under the surface of a cautious Cannes lay a more important story. This may have been the year the Marché began to redefine ...

It feels like every sports film ends the same way. But do they? I crunched the numbers of 1,910 sports movies to find out ...

Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether films have become "too woke" but what happens when we try to measure it using actual data. Can we see shifts? How do they correlate with outcomes?

This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment combines data, research, and analysis to go deep on a trend, idea or case ...

Theatrical re-releases used to be a minor feature of the cinema calendar. But recently we’ve seen a flurry of headline-grabbing successes, and there are quite a few coming down the pipe. Cinemas are ...

A few weeks ago, John August dropped me an email which included a simple question: "How accurate is the page-per-minute rule of thumb?" The rule John is referring to is that a film based on a ...

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: ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films. He claimed that international tax incentives were draining American productions from US soil and accused ...