In March 2023, the BFI surveyed 5,000 UK adults for their “ The Wider World of Film ” report and found that the single ...

Horror is thriving in every corner of film, from IMAX blockbusters to micro-budget gems. Here’s how the genre is shifting, ...

I often get asked if there is a formula for making money with movies. The short answer is that there isn’t one, and even if there were, it would soon stop working due to audience fatigue. There are ...

I have been asked for years whether “Go Woke, Go Broke” is true for movies. So it was a real honour to be able to give the keynote today at the Zurich Summit and answer the question. Over the last few ...

Last week in an article about how long your film needs to be to be accepted into film festivals, I mentioned in passing that a 90-second short film was eligible at nine out of ten film festivals I ...

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 ...

This is the first of a multi-part research project that I’ve been working on for some time. I have been collecting public data on the backgrounds of top film directors to investigate things like class ...

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 ...

I saw Jurassic Park: Rebirth in my local cinema this weekend and I’m annoyed. Now, I know what you’re thinking - How can they possibly justify that title, given that: Of the nine featured dinosaurs, ...

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