I read all 68 pages of the patent behind Ben Affleck’s stealth AI start-up that Netflix just bought in order to understand ...

It’s a common claim that movies today feel more intense than they used to. In a world of multiple screens, endless ...

After analysing 38 million film credits, I found 11,827 movies where one person held all four creative roles. I'm calling ...

The Film Data Scientist returns to dig into what it means for a movie to be "dumb", and how movies are changing in this ...

A reader, Peter, got in touch to ask: People often complain about a sharp decline in the quality of film writing in the last 10-15 years. So my thinking is, are modern screenplays objectively worse? I ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...