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

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

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 looked at admissions data from over 30 countries to see who’s back at the cinema and who’s still missing. The answers say more about national culture and policy than just COVID.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...