I crunched 25 years of trade press coverage, ticket sales across 36 countries and Netflix's global charts to work out what a German breakout hit would need, and why it would lift the whole industry.

I collected 57 published accounts of filmmakers opening their books on marketing and release spend, from a $1,000 theatrical ...

Once you notice that the names at the top of a movie poster rarely match the faces beneath, you start to wonder why it ...

I followed the careers of 1,765 directors of top grossing films to work out who gets another go after a first film that doesn ...

Every year the Black List crowns Hollywood's best unmade screenplays. I traced two decades of scripts and 1,682 writers to see if the list a brilliant talent-spotter, a genuine career-maker, or both.

Let’s start with the seemingly incongruous situation. Hollywood as an industry has been honing its craft for well over a century. Given the power, prestige, and money on offer, it attracts some of the ...

My latest Film Data Scientist video, this time looking at the numbers behind the age of directors. If you would like a slightly more… ahem… sensible reading of ...

Erwin M. Schmidt reached out to point me to a new study of the survival rates of on-screen geologists in movies titled “Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel”. Four geologists at the University ...