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Most cinemas have not fully recovered since COVID. Cutting costs and flexible programming proved to be the most effective survival tactics. Around half of those who work in exhibition feel that the ...
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 ...
I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously.   This article ...
We asked 246 cinema owners and exhibition-affiliated professionals about the future of moviegoing and what younger audiences are demanding from the big screen experience ...
1. Keep going when no one shows up Tyler Perry’s career is defined not by his successes but by the resilience that carried him through failures. His early years saw him repeatedly attempt to launch ...
Across all movies in the dataset, the average length of the period of principal photography was 106 days - three and a half months. Bear in mind that this is not the same as the number of days ...
The way a film's income is collected and distributed is known as the Recoupment Waterfall. Income comes in from a variety of sources and the money is then handed back to the filmmakers via a number of ...
Thank you for coming to my TED talk Oscars speech The Academy Awards have evolved from a private event held in a ballroom to a globally televised spectacle. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the ...
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 ...