I analysed 58,687 movie posters from the past century to see which colours dominate, how their use has shifted over time and ...

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?

“Genre' movies” were the most likely to get the billing correct (70% of horror movies, and 69% of sci-fi), whereas musicals ...

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

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 ...

There are other elements and formatting rules but I'm focusing on the ones which affect our investigation of the one-minute-per-page rule. There are plenty of guides online on how to format a ...

John from Israel emailed me to ask what format most Hollywood films are shot on - film or digital. The question is rather topical as recently we've seen a number of high profile films choose to shoot ...

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

Last week on Twitter I was asked about the average director's career and how many directors get to make a second film.

Three years ago, I looked at Hollywood's switch from shooting on film to using digital acquisition methods.

What Netflix’s patents reveal about the future of watching movies I read through almost 500 Netflix patents to look at what the streaming has been tackling, building and disrupting.