I tracked where 5,408 leading actors in American-made films were born, and where their careers began, to find out how ...

With the help of someone who sounds AND looks JUST like Keanu Reeves, I looked at which movies that everyone says are great, ...

I looked at every one of the 224,914 fiction feature films made 2000-24, and at all 3,891 companies credited with selling them, to study the world of sales agents.

I dug through company registers, tax filings and shareholder reports in twelve countries to find out who controls the top 20 ...

Ted Hope reached out to ask: What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years? A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a ...

I saw Spider-Man: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among ...

I’m working on a big project around the Oscars, and it's revealing just how sparse the research landscape is on Oscar voters. For example, there is only one reliable source for the average age of ...

Last week I gave a keynote at the Locarno Film Festival, following a request by the organisers to give the well-connected audience a ‘slap in the face’. This is exactly the kind of brief I relish, so ...