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 ...

I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.

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 ...

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

I analysed almost 2,000 Oscar speeches to discover if the claim that Harvey Weinstein was thanked more often than God is true. Plus, we'll find out which Hollywood icon is bigger than both of them.

John from Israel emailed me to ask what format most Hollywood films are shot on - film or digital. The question is rather topical as recently we've seen a number of high profile films choose to shoot ...

In wanting to understand this better, the first thing we may ask is, 'Are other types of 'objectional material' also declining?'. Using the same method of looking for signals from ratings and feedback ...

Romance is playing an ever-smaller role in storytelling in movies, raising the question of whether audiences are losing interest or simply finding love elsewhere.

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 ...

Part (but not all) of the reason why top-grossing movies have a longer average run time is that there is a great number of extremely long outliers. The chart below shows the distribution of movies in ...