Every year the Black List crowns Hollywood's best unmade screenplays. I traced two decades of scripts and 1,682 writers to see if the list a brilliant talent-spotter, a genuine career-maker, or both.

I went through every craft in post-production, from VFX and de-ageing to voice, dubbing and the cutting room, checking the AI ...

The chart below is one such example of how Annenberg makes the case, highlighting the Sundance figure at 63.6% (in 2026) and ...

Barton Weiss from VideoFest got in touch to ask: Do you know the percentage of a film festival’s budget that comes from entry fees? I have heard that it was 9% - what have you heard? Thirteen years ...

Over the past few years, more people have reached out asking some version of the same question: Are movies becoming too woke? Some want proof that diversity and progressive themes deliver stronger box ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...

Note: This week I will be at the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market. If you want to grab a coffee, drop me a line. Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined ...

This article is part of my ‘Insider Insights’ series, in which I explore what industry professionals really think and do, combining large-scale surveys with deep data analysis to uncover hidden ...

Three years ago, I looked at Hollywood's switch from shooting on film to using digital acquisition methods. Since then, I have received a number of questions about the topic. Some are requests to ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films. He claimed that international tax incentives were draining American productions from US soil and accused ...