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I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.
The unvarnished truth from 246 cinema executives working on the front line of moviegoing. This is exactly what the exhibition ...
I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the organisers gave me complete freedom to study any aspect of the German film ...
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 ...
What the exhibition sector thinks the next generation of cinema-goers wants We asked 246 cinema owners and exhibition-affiliated professionals about the future of moviegoing and what younger audiences ...
I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.
There are other elements and formatting rules but I'm focusing on the ones which affect our investigation of the one-minute-per-page rule. There are plenty of guides online on how to format a ...
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.
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.