In early 1986, Frank Oz held preview screenings of Little Shop of Horrors in San Jose. He stayed faithful to the musical it was based on, so the movie climaxed with both Seymour and Audrey dying, the ...

Ted Hope reached out to ask: What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years? A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a ...

Despite the massive changes in production, exhibition, and home entertainment over the past twenty years, it’s always surprising to me how similar the sales side of the film business has remained. The ...

We are eight months away from the 2027 Cannes Film Festival, and already all but one of the five-star hotels have stopped taking bookings. I know you will be gutted to not be able to book a five-star ...

Earlier this year, the head of the Berlin Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, was criticised by Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, for standing next to filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and ...

If you’re an avid reader of culture journalists, then it seems as though there is always some country or other “taking over Hollywood”. In the 2000s it was the Australians. In the 2010s it was the ...

I saw Spider-Man: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among ...

In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m going deep on “The Greatest Movies Ever Made”©®™ to understand what makes a movie great and why that classification may slip over time. I am uploading new ...

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film ...