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.

I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.

The unvarnished truth from 246 cinema executives working on the front line of moviegoing. This is exactly what the exhibition sector wants from both studios and independent filmmakers.

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 ...

Romance is playing an ever-smaller role in storytelling in movies, raising the question of whether audiences are losing interest or simply finding love elsewhere.

In wanting to understand this better, the first thing we may ask is, 'Are other types of 'objectional material' also declining?'. Using the same method of looking for signals from ratings and feedback ...

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

What Netflix’s patents reveal about the future of watching movies I read through almost 500 Netflix patents to look at what the streaming has been tackling, building and disrupting.

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 ...