I ran the numbers on over 72,000 films to find the most reused lines in cinema, revealing how movie clichés are born, spread, ...

I crunched the data on every main competition film from all three festivals over the last 35 years to see if winning Cannes, ...

Predicting who will be the next James Bond has become one of the great communal conversations. Whether that’s via prediction markets, professional bookmakers, newspaper headlines, or just down the pub ...

Here is a 36-page guide I wrote for Raindance on how to best navigate the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film. Download your free copy below: Every spring, around this time, my inbox develops a ...

At CinemaCon last week, five of the most-hyped announcements from the major studios were headlined by actors aged 58 or older. Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise at 63 Highlander with Russell Crowe at 62 and ...

To aid an episode of Matt Belloni’s podcast The Town with the Hollywood producer Todd Garner, I was asked to crunch the numbers on longer movies. It’s a question I’ve looked at before on this site, ...

For most of movie history, a movie had one producer. In the 1940s and 1950s, the vast majority of movies credited just one producer. Even through the 1970s, producer teams were small and stable. That ...

I’m starting on a journey to track the numbers behind great acting. I began with a performance that breaks my heart every time I watch it - Emma Thompson’s in Love Actually. I’ll be uploading new ...

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 ...

A larger market for independent films worldwide is emerging, and I don’t think the industry has fully taken on board the consequences yet. To be clear, I think the individual forces behind this are ...

This is part one of a two-part deep dive into how the film industry is changing. This one focuses on the adverse effects, with the follow-up next week focusing on the positives. So strap in, this is ...