Drawing on 575 Cannes veterans, the 2026 rules and a decade of caught-out first-timers, this is what you need to know if ...

Over a third of action lead roles in the 2020s are going to actors aged 50 and over. It is the highest share on record. But ...

To aid an episode of Matt Belloni’s podcast The Town with the Hollywood producer Todd Garner, I was asked to crunch the numbers on longer movies. It’s a question I’ve looked at before on this site, ...

I crunched eight years of Wikipedia data and 10 million reviews across nine Oscar-winning countries and 12,267 films to find out whether the Parasite effect was real or not.

For the third part in my series on the financial side of the film industry, I am turning to profitability and asking "Do Hollywood movies make a profit?" Hollywood has a negative reputation when it ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...

This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment will focus on one of the key shifts highlighted below, digging deeper ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films. He claimed that international tax incentives were draining American productions from US soil and accused ...

This is part two of my collaboration with Screendollars in which we spoke to 246 cinema owners and film professionals affiliated with exhibitors. We quizzed them on a range of topics, and their ...

Some see the Oscars as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, a night of cinematic excellence that honours the best of the best. Others view it a TV reality show in which over-paid and over-dressed ...

Three years ago, I looked at Hollywood's switch from shooting on film to using digital acquisition methods. Since then, I have received a number of questions about the topic. Some are requests to ...