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What the data says about who should be the next James Bond
I scored 460 British and Irish actors against six decades of Bond casting decisions to see who actually fits the brief, and where the audience and the…
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Which film directors have the most consistent visual style?
I crunched the data on the films of 190 directors (who had made at least four movies) and calculated 'When you line up a director’s films, how much do…
Apr 24
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What do Cannes first-timers get wrong?
Drawing on 575 Cannes veterans, the 2026 rules and a decade of caught-out first-timers, this is what you need to know if you're heading to the…
Apr 21
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Is the over-50 action star boom peaking already?
Over a third of action lead roles in the 2020s are going to actors aged 50 and over. It is the highest share on record. But it may also be the moment…
Apr 20
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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