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This cohort has a lot of low budget horror movies, including Saw, Paranormal Activity 4, The Purge: Anarchy, Dashcam and ...
The company controls usages of the phrases "Strong black lead”, “What a Joke”, “Queue” and “Cheat”, but not "Netflix and ...
Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.
I analysed almost 2,000 Oscar speeches to discover if the claim that Harvey Weinstein was thanked more often than God is true. Plus, we'll find out which Hollywood icon is bigger than both of them.
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.
My goal was to track ‘Substacks about the film industry’, but I quickly discovered that this is a rather nebulous definition. It can be hard to draw the line between what is industry analysis and what ...
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 ...
This is the third instalment of a four-part series chronicling trends and changes in the film industry.
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 ...
As long-time readers will know, I'm keen to cover the speed and scope of changes within the film business. The industry has experienced a greater degree of flux in the past decade than in the previous ...