I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the organisers gave me complete freedom to study any aspect of the German film ...

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

I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously.   This article ...

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film ...

A good example of the latter is A Prairie Home Companion. Although classed as ‘Romance’ by IMDB, the film is primarily about the end of an era, nostalgia, mortality, and the camaraderie among the ...

Film production has become one of the most globalised industries on earth. Crews, financing, visual effects, post-production, and even actors routinely cross borders. Many American films are shot in ...

The 'Insider' dataset. A collection of 279 films for which I have inside financial data, revealing the true costs and income for the life of the films. I have spoken about the sources of this data in ...

In recent years, the Chinese market for Hollywood films has flourished so much that Chinese consumer demand is already affecting the content of Hollywood's creative output. The studios can see just ...

3. The middle tier of films is being squeezed out One of the most apparent structural shifts at Cannes 2025 was the near disappearance of the market’s middle ground. Films that would have comfortably ...

What you see on the homepage (and what plays next) is tailored Netflix decides in real time which previews and rows of titles show up first, changing layouts based on your browsing and watching ...

At this point, I'm sure you're wondering if it's a reduction in the intensity of the sexual content (i.e. the same number of scenes with sex, but at a more sedate level) or if it's a case of fewer ...