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Terrifying horror relies on the limitations low budgets forces upon filmmakers. Intimate drama and romance find their ...

Are superhero movies really disappearing? A reader asked if it’s true there are no superhero films for six months, which raised a bigger question of what exactly IS a superhero movie?

Which types of movies make money despite receiving bad reviews from critics? From a pool of 4,914 films, I found 186 that earned over 200% profit despite critical failure. Here’s what unites them.

Netflix owns some pretty strange trademarks, and they reveal a lot about the company The company controls usages of the phrases "Strong black lead”, “What a Joke”, “Queue” and “Cheat”, but not ...

Today I am releasing the results of a long-term project. For a while, I've been looking at the numbers behind female film crew members over the past 20 years. The results are pretty shocking, and ...

Who's the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis Daniel Parris' great data dive into who's the greatest movie actor of all time and why.

An end to MEDIA / Creative Europe funding (certain). Between 2007-13, the MEDIA scheme provided over €100 million towards various aspects of the UK film industry. The loss of this money is the biggest ...

To understand why German cinema looks so different at home and abroad, it helps to start with the stories themselves. Over the past three decades, certain themes have consistently dominated German ...

So it is fair to say both that there are many fewer female directors than male directors, and also that horror has a lower female representation among directors than many other genres. However, it's ...