How tall does Tom Cruise look in his movies? I measured 8 million frames from 2,000 films to find out whether Hollywood's ...

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

Last Friday I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference of the German Producer Alliance as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the event’s curator, Erwin M.

I saw Jurassic Park: Rebirth in my local cinema this weekend and I’m annoyed. Now, I know what you’re thinking - How can they possibly justify that title, given that: Of the nine featured dinosaurs, ...

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 - ...

The Berlin and Cannes film festivals are such big events in my professional calendar, and as they take place in February and May, respectively, I tend to regard the first half of the year as the ...

My recent article on the prevalence and types of plot twists brought on a flurry of interesting reader questions. Unlike that article, there are no spoilers in today’s piece. (I figured that ruining ...

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 ...

As with all the best questions I answer, this one came from Ted Hope. Ted sat on the Debut film jury at the recent Venice Film Festival and emailed to ask: I was surprised to learn that the Venice ...

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 ...

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