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 ...

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 ...