A deep dive into 4,631 festivals shows how routine submission fees have become, and how high some of them now run.

I looked at 13,038 sets of festival regulations to uncover the official thresholds for short films and features, and the ...

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 gathered data on a thousand directors and their agencies to understand how much control a handful of companies really have.

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films. He claimed that international tax incentives were draining American productions from US soil and accused ...

This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment will focus on one of the key shifts highlighted below, digging deeper ...

For the third part in my series on the financial side of the film industry, I am turning to profitability and asking "Do Hollywood movies make a profit?" Hollywood has a negative reputation when it ...

A few weeks ago, John August dropped me an email which included a simple question: "How accurate is the page-per-minute rule of thumb?" The rule John is referring to is that a film based on a ...

When it comes to film festivals, horror filmmakers have both the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, most film festivals disadvantage the horror genre, under-programming it, ...

John from Israel emailed me to ask what format most Hollywood films are shot on - film or digital. The question is rather topical as recently we've seen a number of high profile films choose to shoot ...