I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film ...

What Netflix’s patents reveal about the future of watching movies I read through almost 500 Netflix patents to look at what the streaming has been tackling, building and disrupting.

Today, I'm going to tackle a couple of related topics which seem to come up frequently in reader questions and comments - how is a cinema's box office income distributed, and how much of it ends up ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

For the third part in my series on the financial side of the film industry, I am turning to profitability and asking "Do Hollywood movies make a profit?" Hollywood has a negative reputation when it ...

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 ...

How to prepare for ANY film festival After years of surveys and conversations with filmmakers, producers, and festival directors, here are the 20 things people consistently say make a festival trip ...

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 ...

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 ...