We asked 246 cinema owners and exhibition-affiliated professionals about the future of moviegoing and what younger audiences ...

Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...

I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously.   This article ...

Now that we have our baseline for each major genre, we can see what happens when a film is a hybrid subgenre, such as ‘action comedy’, ‘sci-fi romance, or ‘sports western’ (ok that last one was a ...

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 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 ...

The UK and Canada are the top foreign locations for studio productions. The chart below shows the percentage of movies made by Hollywood studios, which have America as a country of origin on IMDb, ...

Netflix’s recommendation engine has been key to their growth right from the start. By 2017, Wired was reporting that Netflix’s recommendation engine was driving over 80% of all viewing on the platform ...

Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined by almost 40% over the past quarter-century.. At the time, I was asked whether we could see a comparable decline in levels of ...

In order to answer this question in more detail, I built four datasets (all looking at 1999 to 2018): " All movies" - Every single movie made worldwide and listed on online movie listing sites. " ...

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.

A couple of years ago, I looked into whether erotic thrillers were indeed dying out or if it was just availability bias due to the fact that the main examples which come to mind are mostly from the ...