I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the organisers gave me complete freedom to study any aspect of the German film ...

Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...

I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously.   This article ...

Margins are tight and prices have been rising for a while so this is an area for industry watchers to keep an eye on. If price sensitivity among the next generation of cinema goers rises then it could ...

Note: Nothing in this article is an endorsement or any production, service or company. I have not been paid by any, and I am not recommending any. Examples cited are just illustrative of being offered ...

Notes Today’s data comes from MovieLens, a long-running film recommendation site created by GroupLens at the University of Minnesota. The dataset I used includes 32 million ratings by 200,000 ...

An oft-repeated mantra among film distribution professionals is “Drama is not a genre”. By that, they don’t mean that films cannot be dramatic, nor that there are not films you could call “a drama”.

Truth. This perhaps the most contrived of the groups, as I am using my understanding of the plot settings, not just the semantic data (i.e. war, history, biography and sport). That’s why is covers a ...