The company controls usages of the phrases "Strong black lead”, “What a Joke”, “Queue” and “Cheat”, but not "Netflix and ...

Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.

I gathered data on the dates of the top 50 film festivals over the past 25 years to discover when is the busiest. And it was ...

Have movie trailers always been this long? I analysed 6,926 trailers from 4,004 top-grossing films to find out if modern trailers really are too long or if I’m just getting old.

To understand why German cinema looks so different at home and abroad, it helps to start with the stories themselves. Over the past three decades, certain themes have consistently dominated German ...

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 ...

As horror films multiply and diversify, the label is collapsing under the weight of what it’s being asked to describe ...

Eight takeaways from the 2025 Cannes Marché du Film Under the surface of a cautious Cannes lay a more important story. This may have been the year the Marché began to redefine its role.

Are movies becoming more derivative? The data says originality isn’t dying but its role in cinema is quietly shrinking ...

I logged the fates of 27,000+ lead characters to uncover how death on screen has shifted by genre, decade, and cause.

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.