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We asked 246 cinema owners and exhibition-affiliated professionals about the future of moviegoing and what younger audiences ...
Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting, programming ...
I really must impress upon you just how much this article will ruin a bunch of movies for you. Seriously.   This article ...
Now that we have our baseline for each major genre, we can see what happens when a film is a hybrid subgenre, such as ‘action comedy’, ‘sci-fi romance, or ‘sports western’ (ok that last one was a ...
Tyler Perry built his entire career by noticing the audiences that Hollywood consistently overlooked. From his first stage plays touring the “ Chitlin' Circuit ” to blockbuster film franchises ...
Everyone seems to have a hot take on whether AI is going to radically transform the film industry, or is just flashy vapourware. What is certainly true is that there are already a bunch of tools on ...
From the outside, one might assume that cinema operators would be in good spirits. A Cinema United (formerly National Association of Theatre Owners) survey in December 2024 revealed that 85% of ...
Today’s data comes from MovieLens, a long-running film recommendation site created by GroupLens at the University of Minnesota. The dataset I used includes 32 million ratings by 200,000 anonymised ...
Whichever criteria you use, once you start to pick between the types of horror subgenres, fascinating patterns emerge. As we saw with top-level genres, the ebb and flow of different types of horror ...