I went through every craft in post-production, from VFX and de-ageing to voice, dubbing and the cutting room, checking the AI ...

The chart below is one such example of how Annenberg makes the case, highlighting the Sundance figure at 63.6% (in 2026) and ...

I studied 69,832 on-screen deaths from 43,983 movies to calculate which on-screen jobs have the highest and lowest survival ...

Five years ago, 7,000 Hollywood writers fired their agents over a practice called packaging and won. That fight, though, was almost entirely about television, not film. The most pernicious version of ...

Barton Weiss from VideoFest got in touch to ask: Do you know the percentage of a film festival’s budget that comes from entry fees? I have heard that it was 9% - what have you heard? Thirteen years ...

Technically, the Festival de Cannes has another six days to run, but the business side of the Marche du Film is already over. I have spent the past week talking with people, walking the Marché, ...

This month, we’ve seen the stellar performance of Obsession (currently $147 million at the worldwide box office - almost 80 times its budget), which has led readers to get in touch to ask if this ...

Predicting who will be the next James Bond has become one of the great communal conversations. Whether that’s via prediction markets, professional bookmakers, newspaper headlines, or just down the pub ...

At CinemaCon last week, five of the most-hyped announcements from the major studios were headlined by actors aged 58 or older. Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise at 63 Highlander with Russell Crowe at 62 and ...

To aid an episode of Matt Belloni’s podcast The Town with the Hollywood producer Todd Garner, I was asked to crunch the numbers on longer movies. It’s a question I’ve looked at before on this site, ...