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 ...

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 ...

Can cinemas survive the next 20 years? Exhibition execs on the post-COVID recovery and beyond Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting ...

I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously. This article reveals the endings of 59 excellently crafted movies. I can’t even give you a ...

What the exhibition sector thinks the next generation of cinema-goers wants We asked 246 cinema owners and exhibition-affiliated professionals about the future of moviegoing and what younger audiences ...

The biggest forces reshaping the film business right now From streaming upheavals to AI-driven production, these interconnected shifts define where the business of film is headed, and the ...

Today's topic is one I've had on my 'to do' list for a while and it took the help of four students to gather all the data. We looked at the key dates behind Hollywood studio movies in order to work ...

Today, I'm going to tackle a couple of related topics which seem to come up frequently in reader questions and comments - how is a cinema's box office income distributed, and how much of it ends up ...