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This cohort has a lot of low budget horror movies, including Saw, Paranormal Activity 4, The Purge: Anarchy, Dashcam 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?
The company controls usages of the phrases "Strong black lead”, “What a Joke”, “Queue” and “Cheat”, but not "Netflix and ...
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 ...
Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.
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.
The Hallmark bible defines the content of their TV movies as “…very family friendly and PG/G in nature. A rule of thumb when watching our movies is you want to be able to watch with your 80-year-old ...
A few years ago, I looked at what genres are disproportionately popular with cinema audiences around the world. We learned that Italians enjoyed more comedies, that Asian nations love action, ...