Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...

Tyler Perry built his entire career by noticing the audiences that Hollywood consistently overlooked. From his first stage plays touring the “ Chitlin' Circuit ” to blockbuster film franchises ...

I studied the subtitles of over 60,000 films and found that some genres almost always shape the tone, even in hybrids.

Cinema admissions are recovering across Europe, but not in the way many expected. National film cultures, policy choices, and industry structures have all shaped very different paths back to the big ...

Whichever criteria you use, once you start to pick between the types of horror subgenres, fascinating patterns emerge. As we saw with top-level genres, the ebb and flow of different types of horror ...

Some movies do play with the expected formula - Million Dollar Baby puts its key fight at the midpoint, shifting the emotional climax to the aftermath of injury and a moral dilemma. The Wrestler, ...

A helpful example is to note that among the highest scoring films in this metric was The Red Pill, a documentary exploring the polarised world of the Men’s Rights Movement.Its inclusion illustrates ...

From the outside, one might assume that cinema operators would be in good spirits. A Cinema United (formerly National Association of Theatre Owners) survey in December 2024 revealed that 85% of ...

Today’s data comes from MovieLens, a long-running film recommendation site created by GroupLens at the University of Minnesota. The dataset I used includes 32 million ratings by 200,000 anonymised ...