2024年5月2日 · A couple of years ago, I looked into whether erotic thrillers were indeed dying out or if it was just availability bias due to the fact that the main examples which come to mind are mostly from the 1980s.. More recently, Rachel Lloyd from The Economist asked me to look more deeply at one of the charts, which indicated a decline in the levels of sexual content in movies.

2019年2月18日 · Last week on Twitter I was asked about the average director's career and how many directors get to make a second film. This was sparked by some research I conducted a while ago on the average careers of British writers, producers and directors, and also by my 2016 study of female directors in UK film. So I promised to return to the topic of directors' careers …

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry, by Stephen Follows, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

2020年1月20日 · Historically, a short film was defined as being on just one or two 35mm film reels, i.e. 22 minutes long. Today, airlines seem to define ‘short’ as under 60 minutes, the Oscars say under 40 minutes (although the average length of nominees is around 20 minutes) and at the Cannes Film Festival it’s just 15 minutes (although in typical Cannes style, some nominees are …

2019年2月4日 · Last week, I published my analysis of 12,309 feature film screenplays and the scores they each received from professional script readers.. A byproduct of that research was that I had a large number of data points on a whole bunch of screenplays. This allowed me to look at what the average screenplay contains.

2018年2月12日 · A few years ago, I looked at what genres are disproportionately popular with cinema audiences around the world. We learned that Italians enjoyed more comedies, that Asian nations love action, Europeans love drama and that …

2015年6月22日 · The idea of remaking a successful movie is about as old as film itself. The fourth horror film ever made, The Haunted Castle, was an English language remake of the first horror film, Le Manoir du Diable, which was a French film made a year earlier in 1896.. There are a number of films you may not realise are Hollywood remakes or reboots, including...

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry, by Stephen Follows, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

2025年1月25日 · The cause and effect here are unclear. As I showed in The Horror Movie Report, the majority of horror movies are made by people under 45 years old and feature characters who are also under 45 years old.. This correlation isn’t surprising - people tend to create stories that reflect their own experiences and interests, and audiences are naturally drawn to narratives …

6 天之前 · The chart above shows that the 1950s stand out as the one exception in filmmakers’ tendency to set films in their own time. In every previous decade, around three-quarters of films took place in the period they were made, and in the 1940s, that figure was over 80%.