As with all the best questions I answer, this one came from Ted Hope. Ted sat on the Debut film jury at the recent Venice Film Festival and emailed to ask: I was surprised to learn that the Venice ...

Twelve US states have just ordered the new Paramount / Warner studio to release 30 films a year. I crunched the data on ...

I am writing this as I fly out of Toronto, after spending five days at the film industry’s brand-new major market, TIFF: The Market, attached to the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. A number ...

I’m a huge fan, and if you like the kinds of things I write about, then you’ll love his work. So today I’m giving the floor to Daniel, sharing one of his posts on the future of theatrical. Few ...

In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m looking at on-screen death rates to figure out how representative movies are of real life. Plus, if you want to join the crime underworld, I’ll show you ...

I measured the colour of every shot in 8,135 films, from 1930 to today, to find out when warm faces against cold shadows took ...

We are eight months away from the 2027 Cannes Film Festival, and already all but one of the five-star hotels have stopped taking bookings. I know you will be gutted to not be able to book a five-star ...

In early 1986, Frank Oz held preview screenings of Little Shop of Horrors in San Jose. He stayed faithful to the musical it was based on, so the movie climaxed with both Seymour and Audrey dying, the ...