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Definitely superhero – Characters like Iron Man, Robocop, Hellboy, and Deadpool all pass with ease. They have powers or advanced tech, a costumed identity, and operate in worlds full of ...
This cohort has a lot of low budget horror movies, including Saw, Paranormal Activity 4, The Purge: Anarchy, Dashcam and ...
The company controls usages of the phrases "Strong black lead”, “What a Joke”, “Queue” and “Cheat”, but not "Netflix and ...
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 ...
Cancellations used to mean disaster on set but in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood economics they now happen in boardrooms.
John from Israel emailed me to ask what format most Hollywood films are shot on - film or digital. The question is rather topical as recently we've seen a number of high profile films choose to shoot ...
I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.
Last week on Twitter I was asked about the average director's career and how many directors get to make a second film.
Three years ago, I looked at Hollywood's switch from shooting on film to using digital acquisition methods.
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.