I looked at every one of the 224,914 fiction feature films made 2000-24, and at all 3,891 companies credited with selling them, to study the world of sales agents.

With the help of someone who sounds AND looks JUST like Keanu Reeves, I looked at which movies that everyone says are great, ...

Let’s start with the base rate. Of the 146,603 debut directors, 25.3% directed a second feature within five years. I’ll call ...

If you’re an avid reader of culture journalists, then it seems as though there is always some country or other “taking over Hollywood”. In the 2000s it was the Australians. In the 2010s it was the ...

I dug through company registers, tax filings and shareholder reports in twelve countries to find out who controls the top 20 ...

Last week, I posted my new research on the simplicity of movie scripts. Today, I’m sharing the companion video under the guise of The Film Data Scientist. It’s just like the original research but ...

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 ...

Today we’re going sonic. Not, not that one - we’re moving on to the audio of movies. I built a system to identify every sound event from almost 2,000 action movies made over the past 75 years. We’re ...