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Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.

Have movie trailers always been this long? I analysed 6,926 trailers from 4,004 top-grossing films to find out if modern trailers really are too long or if I’m just getting old.

Are movies with plot twists better than those without? I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.

What cinemas are demanding of the film industry The unvarnished truth from 246 cinema executives working on the front line of moviegoing. This is exactly what the exhibition sector wants from both ...

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 ...

Why your film can't secure distribution (from 300+ brutally honest film market professionals) I interviewed 327 film professionals about what filmmakers get wrong when trying to secure a film ...