Berlin’s line-up has never quite had that scale, with probably the biggest titles of recent memory being The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hail, Caesar!, and The Monuments Men. But even by its own standards, ...

After waiting almost exactly 21 years after launch to see how it worked out, I think it's time I join this thing called ...

I reviewed 20 years of EFM sessions to understand the industry’s recurring discussions and to see what 2026 has in store. Plus, I look at whether the market’s "decline" narrative matches the data.

I tracked the timing of 175,902 critic reviews across 10,766 films to see what it signals before the opening weekend.

Looking at the data behind which films appear on user-generated lists of 'Movies which are awesome, but I don't ever want to watch again' reveals what feeling audiences never want to return to.

This month, the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring has brought all three extended editions back to cinemas again, many in IMAX. The box office grosses for last weekend looks to be north of ...

I’ve written about the data behind Hallmark movies a few times before. So it was great fun to sit down with Pulitzer prize-winning data journalist (and good friend) Walt Hickey of NumLock to talk all ...

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 ...

Last week in an article about how long your film needs to be to be accepted into film festivals, I mentioned in passing that a 90-second short film was eligible at nine out of ten film festivals I ...

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 ...