Each week I look at a different topic around the film industry, focusing on the data and statistics which reveal what’s going on.
I am taking requests for areas to research and I will publish the data here. If you have a question about the film industry, in the UK or internationally, then please contact me. This article is based on a question from Ed Dark, who asked “How many films are shot in the UK each year?“. In […]
Below are the financial projections made by 20th Century Fox in the run up to the production of Valkyrie, showing how they work out how much is Tom Cruise paid. These numbers come from an internal file created to project the film’s costs and possible returns. The film was made by MGM but Fox were handling the […]
In the last few weeks I’ve spent lots of time looking at film festivals and talking to film festival directors. A very common theme was their dislike of Withoutabox and their frustration that a better alternative doesn’t exist. I was intrigued as to why such a bad situation has gone unresolved for so long. So […]
In the last instalment of my Film Festival Survey, I offer the thoughts of film festival directors from around the world. My previous posts looked at how many festivals there are and the economics of running a festival. They were largely presented as charts and graphs of statistics. In total, 523 film festival directors shared […]
Last week I published the results of my study of almost 10,000 film festivals. I found that around 3,000 festivals were active (i.e had run an event in the last 2 years), most were in North America and 75% of them were created in the last ten years. That was a quantitative study based on […]
This is the first of three articles about Film Festivals. In part 2 I will publish a survey I have conducted with film festival directors around the world, showing the data on their point of view. Part 3 will give a voice to the human stories of the festival directors by sharing stories and advice […]
The physical distribution and exhibition of movies in UK cinemas has changed hugely in the last five years. The 125-year-old era of 35mm celluloid film is over, giving way to a digital future. Here are some of the key facts to stay up to speed with the recent changes in UK cinema exhibition… 35mm distribution may […]
Pop quiz, hot shot… What year had the most cinema tickets sold in the UK? Was it the time of the Hollywood epic such as ‘Cleopatra‘ (1963)? Maybe the first wave of blockbusters like ‘Jaws‘ (1975) and ‘Star Wars‘ (1977). ‘Avatar‘ (2009) perhaps? Or has ‘Pacific Rim‘ done so well as to make 2013 […]
I read the YouTube small print (i.e. Terms of Service) and this is what I discovered: The contract exists even after deleting your account There are at least two typos YouTube asks you to print hard copies If you accidentally stay logged in you must write to them They can use your words, ideas and opinions You must […]
The BFI have published the latest version of their annual publication, the BFI Statistical Yearbook 2013, which focuses on data collected in 2012. You can download the full 254 page report here at www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/film-industry-statistics-research/statistical-yearbook I’ve gone through and picked out what I regard as the 49 most interesting nuggets about the UK Film Industry. 1. Women […]
