Earlier this week, the national board of SAG-AFTRA (the actors’ union) voted to keep Duncan Crabtree-Ireland in charge until June 2032 and to add ‘CEO’ to his title. The announcement didn’t mention ...

The question I get asked most is how to raise the money needed to make a film. My stock answer usually starts with asking if they are looking for funding or financing. Funding is money given because ...

I measured every second of sound in 1,423 films, including 478 sound Oscar nominees, to test an old Hollywood joke.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, two new films opened in US cinemas. Verity, the Anne Hathaway thriller, went straight to number one with an estimated $32.6m over the weekend. Digger, starring Tom Cruise, took $8m, which ...