I studied the data behind 10,524 films and more than four million audience reviews to see whether conversations about ...

I gathered over 500 reported standing ovations across five of the world’s biggest film festivals to see whether the length of applause tells us anything meaningful about a film’s future.

A deep dive into 4,631 festivals shows how routine submission fees have become, and how high some of them now run.

I looked at 13,038 sets of festival regulations to uncover the official thresholds for short films and features, and the ...

A few weeks ago I looked at which Hollywood agencies represented the top 2,000 acting names. This prompted a few readers to get in touch and ask if the same domination (i.e. four companies ...

Last week I showed the result of my research into the careers of the 682 directors behind the top 1,250 grossing films of the past quarter century. We learned that almost exactly half had attended a ...