I went through every craft in post-production, from VFX and de-ageing to voice, dubbing and the cutting room, checking the AI ...

The chart below is one such example of how Annenberg makes the case, highlighting the Sundance figure at 63.6% (in 2026) and ...

I studied 69,832 on-screen deaths from 43,983 movies to calculate which on-screen jobs have the highest and lowest survival ...

Barton Weiss from VideoFest got in touch to ask: Do you know the percentage of a film festival’s budget that comes from entry fees? I have heard that it was 9% - what have you heard? Thirteen years ...

Five years ago, 7,000 Hollywood writers fired their agents over a practice called packaging and won. That fight, though, was almost entirely about television, not film. The most pernicious version of ...

Technically, the Festival de Cannes has another six days to run, but the business side of the Marche du Film is already over. I have spent the past week talking with people, walking the Marché, ...

On Monday, I published a piece on whether a famous lead actually pays off at the box office. A few readers reached out to ask whether I had taken the films’ quality into account. I had, but what stuck ...

My latest Film Data Scientist video, this time quantifying the sheer scale of Steven Spielberg. ’ll be uploading new video essays every couple of weeks throughout 2026, so make sure you’re subscribed ...

Kane Parsons has just become the youngest person to direct a film that reached number 1 at the US box office with his smash hit Backrooms. Rather than celebrate this achievement, some have decided ...