I crunched the numbers on 8,190 movies to discover which types stay profitable even when the critics are unkind.

Using ten years of data from 160,000 films, I looked at how audience behaviour shifts each December to reveal the emerging ...

Last week, I got pulled into a conversation with some friends about Donnie Darko. The debate quickly turned to whether the film’s hard-to-follow narrative held it back or whether that was part of its ...

Using data from over 3,655 movies, I've discovered that directors are increasingly framing their character shots differently.

Last week, I investigated whether there was a link between the number of people thanked in a movie’s credits and the movie’s quality. That prompted a number of people to ask how the number of ...

Last month, I looked at how many film festivals still insist on premiere status, and found that most don’t. Only a small fraction of events require your film to be the first screening anywhere, while ...

When people begin exploring data on films, one of the first things they look for is the production budget. It sounds simple enough: how much did the film cost to make? Knowing that number helps when ...