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I analysed 70 years of Sight & Sound poll data to see which once-celebrated classics are now slipping down the canon of ...
I analysed 58,687 movie posters from the past century to see which colours dominate, how their use has shifted over time and ...
Very few movies don’t contain some kind of moral message designed to show us a better path, a better way of living, or to teach us how to be better people.
What cinemas are demanding of the film industry The unvarnished truth from 246 cinema executives working on the front line of moviegoing. This is exactly what the exhibition sector wants from both ...
Can cinemas survive the next 20 years? Exhibition execs on the post-COVID recovery and beyond Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting ...
As horror films multiply and diversify, the label is collapsing under the weight of what it’s being asked to describe ...
The five biggest concerns facing US cinema exhibitors today What 246 cinema professionals think about the state of theatrical exhibition, what's going wrong, and who's to blame.
I logged the fates of 27,000+ lead characters to uncover how death on screen has shifted by genre, decade, and cause.
I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.
What Netflix’s patents reveal about the future of watching movies I read through almost 500 Netflix patents to look at what the streaming has been tackling, building and disrupting.