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I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously.   This article ...
Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...
I studied the subtitles of over 60,000 films and found that some genres almost always shape the tone, even in hybrids.
Tyler Perry built his entire career by noticing the audiences that Hollywood consistently overlooked. From his first stage plays touring the “ Chitlin' Circuit ” to blockbuster film franchises ...
Given that formating is so rigid, it's certainly possible that there is a correlation between page count and screen time. Writers do not have much scope to change the length of their Scene headings, ...
Grab a cup of tea - this is a long one. It’s rare for filmmakers to get a candid look at the books of someone else’s film but, thanks to the generosity of Marcus Markou, that’s exactly what you'll get ...
Today, I'm going to tackle a couple of related topics which seem to come up frequently in reader questions and comments - how is a cinema's box office income distributed, and how much of it ends up ...
The UK and Canada are the top foreign locations for studio productions. The chart below shows the percentage of movies made by Hollywood studios, which have America as a country of origin on IMDb, ...
Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined by almost 40% over the past quarter-century.. At the time, I was asked whether we could see a comparable decline in levels of ...
In order to answer this question in more detail, I built four datasets (all looking at 1999 to 2018): " All movies" - Every single movie made worldwide and listed on online movie listing sites. " ...