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 ...

Most cinemas have not fully recovered since COVID. Cutting costs and flexible programming proved to be the most effective survival tactics. Around half of those who work in exhibition feel that the ...

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

We asked 246 cinema owners and exhibition-affiliated professionals about the future of moviegoing and what younger audiences are demanding from the big screen experience ...

1. Keep going when no one shows up Tyler Perry’s career is defined not by his successes but by the resilience that carried him through failures. His early years saw him repeatedly attempt to launch ...

For brevity's sake, I have moved my full methodology to the final section of this article. I built a dataset of 761 scripts which had all been made into theatrically released movies. I removed any ...

The independent feature film took 24 days to shoot in and around London. The largest costs were art department (they had to build a chip shop in an empty shop!), cast and production staff. The Above ...

Hybrid & Day-and-Date Releases. Studios are experimenting with flexible release strategies that break away from the old theatrical-first approach. Some titles arrive in cinemas for a few weeks before ...

Across all movies in the dataset, the average length of the period of principal photography was 106 days - three and a half months. Bear in mind that this is not the same as the number of days ...