I looked into whether erotic thrillers were indeed dying out or if it was just availability bias due to the fact that the ...

Last week, I examined the origin of movie scripts, showing that Original Screenplays still account for over half of all movies — the same figure it was forty years ago. This prompted a few readers to ...

When I was starting out in film, I always heard the head of the camera department being referred to as either “DoP” (pronounced dee-oh-pea) or “DP” (pronounced dee-pea), both of which are short for ...

In last week’s article, I looked at the claim that mid-budget dramas are not being made anymore. Although the conclusion was that this is a myth, there was strong evidence to show that they are being ...

The BFI recouped £37,977,946 from its feature film investments, April 2008 to March 2014, It received a further £2,828,018 from other film investments, such as slate funding and shorts. The King’s ...

Today, I’m checking in with the data behind a question I get asked often. Almost every week, a reader or journalist asks me why modern movies aren’t as original as they used to be. So I turned to the ...

My work covers a range of topics; some studies look at pressing issues of inequality or untangle the dense web of the film industry’s economic frameworks. This article is not one of them. It’s one of ...

A few months ago, I looked at the average number of films a director is likely to make over their career. This led to people asking about producers and so I agreed to take a look. The role of a movie ...

This week I haven’t had a great deal of time to produce in-depth research so here instead is something a bit lighter than my normal fare. I took a look at the number of movies based on Shakespeare ...

In a recent interview with the Metro newspaper, Matt Damon discussed the changing nature of Hollywood budgets and specifically the decline of mid-budget dramas. Or as the Metro headline put it “Jason ...

Today’s article is another joint project with Bruce Nash from The Numbers. In a series of research studies for the American Film Market, we looked at what it takes for films to break out at different ...