At every grade, the films watched mostly by women get the lower IMDb rating. Among films graded A or A+ on opening night, the ...

Digger, starring Tom Cruise, opens today. Apparently it cost $125 million to make, but Deadline’s current tracking estimates its ‘domestic debut prospects’ at ‘around $20M’. Deadline is not alone - ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the massive changes in production, exhibition, and home entertainment over the past twenty years, it’s always surprising to me how similar the sales side of the film business has remained. The ...

I saw Spider-Man: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among ...

A few weeks ago I published the first half of my conversations with the people who read cold scripts for a living. I spoke to 38 agents, managers, assistants and junior execs on which credentials ...

Last week I gave a keynote at the Locarno Film Festival, following a request by the organisers to give the well-connected audience a ‘slap in the face’. This is exactly the kind of brief I relish, so ...

Marketing is a key part of any film’s success, but training and case studies are much more likely to focus on the filmmaking than on film promotion. So I went looking for real-world examples of indie ...

Last month, I wrote about the career paths top directors took to direct a major motion picture. One finding was that women were less likely than men to make a second film on the same scale. A few of ...