I crunched the data on the films of 190 directors (who had made at least four movies) and calculated 'When you line up a director’s films, how much do they actually look alike?' ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Next month’s Cannes Film Festival will see a very strong showing from the South Korean contingent. Park Chan-wook is presiding over the jury, and the country has two films In Competition: Hope (호프) is ...

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 ...

Last week saw the publication of my report 'Cut Out Of The Picture', which looked at gender inequality in the UK film industry. In the process of researching and writing the report, we spoke to over ...

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 ...