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

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

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 ...

Ted Hope reached out to ask: What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years? A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a ...

Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ...

Every year, tens of thousands of screenwriters pay to enter contests. A major selling point for them is that winning (or placing highly) will mean that the right people will finally read your script.

Let’s start with the seemingly incongruous situation. Hollywood as an industry has been honing its craft for well over a century. Given the power, prestige, and money on offer, it attracts some of the ...

I have received a few questions from readers about the path to becoming a top movie director, prompted by a recent Substack post entitled “The Annenberg Ouroboros” by Hollywood Gadfly. The chart below ...

This month, we’ve seen the stellar performance of Obsession (currently $147 million at the worldwide box office - almost 80 times its budget), which has led readers to get in touch to ask if this ...