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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A reader, Peter, got in touch to ask: People often complain about a sharp decline in the quality of film writing in the last 10-15 years. So my thinking is, are modern screenplays objectively worse? I ...

Last week, I posted my new research on the simplicity of movie scripts. Today, I’m sharing the companion video under the guise of The Film Data Scientist. It’s just like the original research but ...

Sitemap index for StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry ...