The number of Executive Producers on movies has more than doubled since 2000. And this kind of credit inflation is also ...

I used 3,144,427 data points to decode Emma Thompson's performance in Love Actually to understand the 'maths' of great acting ...

The total number of detected sound events per minute in action movies has been rising steadily. A modern action film packs in ...

Earlier this year, YouTuber Markiplier released Iron Lung, a $3.6 million horror film he wrote, directed, edited, and stars in. The film went on to gross more than $50 million at the worldwide box ...

It’s a common claim that movies today feel more intense than they used to. In a world of multiple screens, endless distractions and an attention span of… wait ...

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 ...

Hollywood cinema is not known to be a bastion of truth. It’s a place where entertainment and expediency are prioritised over accuracy and authenticity. It's frequently claimed that NASA uses the 1998 ...

Last week, I shared my analysis of how filmmakers are subtly changing how they frame human faces over time. Today I wanted to take it one stage further and see if we can use those faces to measure how ...

I have been asked for years whether “Go Woke, Go Broke” is true for movies. So it was a real honour to be able to give the keynote today at the Zurich Summit and answer the question. Over the last few ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...