I crunched eight years of Wikipedia data and 10 million reviews across nine Oscar-winning countries and 12,267 films to find out whether the Parasite effect was real or not.

I crunched the running times of 36,431 movies to work out why it feels like movies are getting longer, and to test the theory ...

The number of Executive Producers on movies has more than doubled since 2000. And this kind of credit inflation is also ...

Today we’re going sonic. Not, not that one - we’re moving on to the audio of movies. I built a system to identify every sound event from almost 2,000 action movies made over the past 75 years. We’re ...

Earlier this year, YouTuber Markiplier released Iron Lung, a $3.6 million horror film he wrote, directed, edited, and stars in. The film went on to gross more than $50 million at the worldwide box ...

This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment combines data, research, and analysis to go deep on a trend, idea or case ...

Hollywood cinema is not known to be a bastion of truth. It’s a place where entertainment and expediency are prioritised over accuracy and authenticity. It's frequently claimed that NASA uses the 1998 ...

A larger market for independent films worldwide is emerging, and I don’t think the industry has fully taken on board the consequences yet. To be clear, I think the individual forces behind this are ...

Films evolve in many small ways that are easy to miss if you are not looking for them. One area I had not studied before is shot composition. It is such a basic building block of visual storytelling ...

This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment combines data, research, and analysis to go deep on a trend, idea or case ...