Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Horror Report
Horror Deep Dive
Film Data
Film Festivals
Film Funding
Filmmakers' Roadmap
Big Ideas
Crowdfunding Masterclass
Insider Insights
Archive
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
Did Parasite change how audiences think about South Korean cinema?
I crunched eight years of Wikipedia data and 10 million reviews across nine Oscar-winning countries and 12,267 films to find out whether the Parasite…
Apr 13
•
Stephen Follows
20
1
Nine lessons from almost 100 film distribution case studies
Across four decades and budgets ranging from $2,000 to $2.5m, the same nine lessons keep surfacing. None of them are what the industry tells you to…
Apr 7
•
Stephen Follows
53
2
9
Are two-hour movies the new normal?
I crunched the running times of 36,431 movies to work out why it feels like movies are getting longer, and to test the theory that the two-hour movie is…
Apr 2
•
Stephen Follows
33
4
2
Why do films have so many producers?
The number of Executive Producers on movies has more than doubled since 2000. And this kind of credit inflation is also present in other producer…
Apr 1
•
Stephen Follows
37
4
1
March 2026
Does one page of a screenplay really equal one minute of screen time?
I crunched the numbers on almost 3,000 movie scripts too see what the data actually says about the film industry's most famous rule of thumb.
Mar 30
•
Stephen Follows
29
2
3
Can we measure great acting?
I used 3,144,427 data points to decode Emma Thompson's performance in Love Actually to understand the 'maths' of great acting.
Mar 26
•
Stephen Follows
16
1
1
What happened to the sound of action films?
I have been on a bit of a mission in recent months to identify how movies are creatively changing.
Mar 24
•
Stephen Follows
29
4
3
How often does one person write, direct, produce, and star in a movie?
After analysing 38 million film credits, I found 11,827 movies where one person held all four creative roles. I'm calling this 'Egocore' and it's more…
Mar 18
•
Stephen Follows
27
8
2
Movies have become more intense (but not in the way you think)
It’s a common claim that movies today feel more intense than they used to.
Mar 16
•
Stephen Follows
30
1
6
3 smart sounding reasons movies feel dumber…er
The Film Data Scientist returns to dig into what it means for a movie to be "dumb", and how movies are changing in this regard.
Mar 11
•
Stephen Follows
19
1
What does the patent behind Netflix’s acquisition of Ben Affleck’s AI company actually do?
I read all 68 pages of the patent behind Ben Affleck’s stealth AI start-up that Netflix just bought in order to understand exactly how the system works…
Mar 9
•
Stephen Follows
33
2
2
Are movies becoming more simplistic?
A reader, Peter, got in touch to ask:
Mar 6
•
Stephen Follows
39
12
3
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
