Drawing on 575 Cannes veterans, the 2026 rules and a decade of caught-out first-timers, this is what you need to know if ...

Over a third of action lead roles in the 2020s are going to actors aged 50 and over. It is the highest share on record. But ...

I crunched eight years of Wikipedia data and 10 million reviews across nine Oscar-winning countries and 12,267 films to find out whether the Parasite effect was real or not.

I’m starting on a journey to track the numbers behind great acting. I began with a performance that breaks my heart every time I watch it - Emma Thompson’s in Love Actually. I’ll be uploading new ...

Today we’re going sonic. Not, not that one - we’re moving on to the audio of movies. I built a system to identify every sound event from almost 2,000 action movies made over the past 75 years. We’re ...

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 ...