Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...

I studied the subtitles of over 60,000 films and found that some genres almost always shape the tone, even in hybrids.

Tyler Perry built his entire career by noticing the audiences that Hollywood consistently overlooked. From his first stage plays touring the “ Chitlin' Circuit ” to blockbuster film franchises ...

The UK and Canada are the top foreign locations for studio productions. The chart below shows the percentage of movies made by Hollywood studios, which have America as a country of origin on IMDb, ...

Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined by almost 40% over the past quarter-century.. At the time, I was asked whether we could see a comparable decline in levels of ...

The WGA strictly regulates the way in which writers can be credited on live action films, meaning that on average, each film had 3.5 writers. Animated films are not covered by the WGA agreement with ...

In order to answer this question in more detail, I built four datasets (all looking at 1999 to 2018): " All movies" - Every single movie made worldwide and listed on online movie listing sites. " ...

Last week on Twitter I was asked about the average director's career and how many directors get to make a second film. This was sparked by some research I conducted a while ago on the average careers ...

This is the fourth of four articles I co-authored with Bruce Nash on behalf of the American Film Market. We have previously looked at drama, comedy and family films and today we turn to horror..

Last week, I looked at six trends for how the film business is changing. It got a great response and I was heartened to see such interesting, lively debate about it. One of the topics raised by a few ...