I followed the careers of 1,765 directors of top grossing films to work out who gets another go after a first film that doesn ...

Every year the Black List crowns Hollywood's best unmade screenplays. I traced two decades of scripts and 1,682 writers to see if the list a brilliant talent-spotter, a genuine career-maker, or both.

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

I’ve written about the data behind Hallmark movies a few times before. So it was great fun to sit down with Pulitzer prize-winning data journalist (and good friend) Walt Hickey of NumLock to talk all ...

I studied the data behind 2,271 movies to reveal why Hollywood's big budget fare is often so poor. It's not random but the ...

My latest Film Data Scientist video, this time looking at the numbers behind the age of directors. If you would like a slightly more… ahem… sensible reading of ...

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

While at film school I did all I could to avoid lessons around film theory and film appreciation. I regret it now, and so as an adult I have resolved to watch more of the very best movies made over ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...