Definitely superhero – Characters like Iron Man, Robocop, Hellboy, and Deadpool all pass with ease. They have powers or advanced tech, a costumed identity, and operate in worlds full of ...

This cohort has a lot of low budget horror movies, including Saw, Paranormal Activity 4, The Purge: Anarchy, Dashcam and ...

The company controls usages of the phrases "Strong black lead”, “What a Joke”, “Queue” and “Cheat”, but not "Netflix and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.

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 ...

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 ...

Last week on Twitter I was asked about the average director's career and how many directors get to make a second film.

Three years ago, I looked at Hollywood's switch from shooting on film to using digital acquisition methods.