I studied the data behind 10,524 films and more than four million audience reviews to see whether conversations about ...

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 ...

Last week I showed the result of my research into the careers of the 682 directors behind the top 1,250 grossing films of the past quarter century. We learned that almost exactly half had attended a ...

A few weeks ago I looked at which Hollywood agencies represented the top 2,000 acting names. This prompted a few readers to get in touch and ask if the same domination (i.e. four companies ...

This is the first of a multi-part research project that I’ve been working on for some time. I have been collecting public data on the backgrounds of top film directors to investigate things like class ...

Film is defined by being an industry of outliers, shaped by power laws where success and influence are concentrated in the hands of a few. And this is never more true than among Hollywood agents. I ...