A few days ago, a new UK film distributor, True Brit Entertainment, went into administration. It had been launched under three years ago, intending to co-finance $150m of British films. In the end, it ...

Every year, tens of thousands of screenwriters pay to enter contests. A major selling point for them is that winning (or placing highly) will mean that the right people will finally read your script.

I am writing this as I fly out of Toronto, after spending five days at the film industry’s brand-new major market, TIFF: The Market, attached to the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. A number ...

I read the current rules of 423 film festivals to find every prize that pays money, how big the pots are, when they fall in ...

Twelve US states have just ordered the new Paramount / Warner studio to release 30 films a year. I crunched the data on ...

I measured the colour of every shot in 8,135 films, from 1930 to today, to find out when warm faces against cold shadows took ...

And he doesn’t just cover movies - he goes deep into TV, music and culture. Some of his stone-cold classics are: I’m a huge fan, and if you like the kinds of things I write about, then you’ll love his ...

Theatrical re-releases used to be a minor feature of the cinema calendar. But recently we’ve seen a flurry of headline-grabbing successes, and there are quite a few coming down the pipe. Cinemas are ...