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.

I looked at admissions data from over 30 countries to see who’s back at the cinema and who’s still missing. The answers say more about national culture and policy than just COVID.

Last week, I posted my research into the problem caused by the growing popularity of horror. Specifically, the word “horror” now encompasses such a broad and diverse range of films that it has begun ...

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 ...

Netflix’s recommendation engine has been key to their growth right from the start. By 2017, Wired was reporting that Netflix’s recommendation engine was driving over 80% of all viewing on the platform ...

Using my 'Insider' dataset of 279 Hollywood movies I found that overall 51% made a profit and 49% made a loss. This pattern of 50:50 seems to be the common understanding of movie economics among the ...

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 ...

Given that formating is so rigid, it's certainly possible that there is a correlation between page count and screen time. Writers do not have much scope to change the length of their Scene headings, ...

A couple of years ago, I looked into whether erotic thrillers were indeed dying out or if it was just availability bias due to the fact that the main examples which come to mind are mostly from the ...