I traced the backing behind 3,044 features selected by Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance and Toronto to find out how many got ...

Last night I had the absolute pleasure of watching American Graffiti (1973) at the ActOne Cinema in Acton, and then listening to Mark Kermode quiz Walter Murch about how he built its sound. Murch ...

Last week, I got sent a tweet accusing DiscussingFilm of never posting the Rotten Tomatoes score for a new Universal film, or a single negative review, implying Universal had paid them off. It's not ...

De Luca and Abdy, we hear, ran Digger through their analytical comps system. The combo of Cruise and Iñárritu justified a $125M production greenligiht. Three weeks before Digger opened, De Luca told ...

While at film school I did all I could to avoid lessons around film theory and film appreciation. I regret it now, and so as an adult I have resolved to watch more of the very best movies made over ...

Last Friday I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference of the German Producer Alliance as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the event’s curator, Erwin M.

I saw Jurassic Park: Rebirth in my local cinema this weekend and I’m annoyed. Now, I know what you’re thinking - How can they possibly justify that title, given that: Of the nine featured dinosaurs, ...

The Berlin and Cannes film festivals are such big events in my professional calendar, and as they take place in February and May, respectively, I tend to regard the first half of the year as the ...

My recent article on the prevalence and types of plot twists brought on a flurry of interesting reader questions. Unlike that article, there are no spoilers in today’s piece. (I figured that ruining ...

A few days ago, a new UK film distributor, True Brit Entertainment, went into administration. It had been launched under three years ago, intending to co-finance $150m of British films. In the end, it ...

Another Film Data Scientist video investigation into a pressing topic of our time. This time - how tall is Tom Cruise, really? I measured the gap between actors' eyes in 8 million frames from 2,000 ...

Next Thursday, I shall be joining many in the film community in wintry Berlin for the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market. (If you’re going to be in Berlin too, reach out, and we can grab a ...