Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is out in front, representing 23.7% of top actors who publicly list their agency. They are followed by United Talent Agency (UTA) at 11.8%, Gersh at 10.4%, and William ...

I analysed 58,687 movie posters from the past century to see which colours dominate, how their use has shifted over time and ...

I analysed 70 years of Sight & Sound poll data to see which once-celebrated classics are now slipping down the canon of ...

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

Today, I'm going to tackle a couple of related topics which seem to come up frequently in reader questions and comments - how is a cinema's box office income distributed, and how much of it ends up ...

There are other elements and formatting rules but I'm focusing on the ones which affect our investigation of the one-minute-per-page rule. There are plenty of guides online on how to format a ...

Romance is playing an ever-smaller role in storytelling in movies, raising the question of whether audiences are losing interest or simply finding love elsewhere.

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film ...

In wanting to understand this better, the first thing we may ask is, 'Are other types of 'objectional material' also declining?'. Using the same method of looking for signals from ratings and feedback ...

I analysed almost 2,000 Oscar speeches to discover if the claim that Harvey Weinstein was thanked more often than God is true. Plus, we'll find out which Hollywood icon is bigger than both of them.

How profitable are horror movies? Horror films have the highest likelihood of profitability among genres, but their success is heavily dependent on a few outliers, making the genre both enticing and ...