The first time someone said “You should do a Substack” to me, I thought they were suggesting lunch. As more people started to ...

The report is over 400 pages of facts, stats, graphs and charts looking at all aspects of horror movies, including: ...

This is part two of a three part investigation into the cost of going to the cinema. Last week, I looked at the cost of cinema tickets, showing that the average UK cinema ticket costs £9.84 off peak ...

One of the common gripes from cinema-goers is the increasing cost. So this week I’m taking a look at the average cinema ticket price in the UK. Next week it’ll be the price of cinema popcorn and the ...

Regular readers will know that I often study topics suggested by members of the public. In the past, they have included subjects such as racial diversity, movie recoupment and public investment in the ...

In order to conduct my data research I rely on a number of different sources. Some of the data is already publicly available, some I gather myself and some comes from asking organisations to make ...

Yesterday a strike among crew members of US TV and film productions was called off, barely a day before it was meant to start. IATSE (or to give it its full name The International Alliance of ...

In last week’s blog I published the figures for how much the UK Film Industry has earned in revenue over the last 15 years. A couple of people expressed surprise that the rental market used to provide ...

I have been asked a number of times over the years to study actors and the acting profession. The interested parties tend to ...

In the past, I have explored various facets of swearing in films, such as which country produces the most expletive-laden movies, the prevalence of swear words in different genres and how swearing can ...

A few months ago I noted a steep drop in UK feature film production (mostly in the lowest budget range). Since then, the topic of feature film production has come up often in conversations I have with ...