I looked at every one of the 224,914 fiction feature films made 2000-24, and at all 3,891 companies credited with selling them, to study the world of sales agents.

With the help of someone who sounds AND looks JUST like Keanu Reeves, I looked at which movies that everyone says are great, ...

I dug through company registers, tax filings and shareholder reports in twelve countries to find out who controls the top 20 ...

If you’re an avid reader of culture journalists, then it seems as though there is always some country or other “taking over Hollywood”. In the 2000s it was the Australians. In the 2010s it was the ...

Ted Hope reached out to ask: What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years? A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a ...

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 ...

I saw Spider-Man: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among ...

A few weeks ago I published the first half of my conversations with the people who read cold scripts for a living. I spoke to 38 agents, managers, assistants and junior execs on which credentials ...

Last week I gave a keynote at the Locarno Film Festival, following a request by the organisers to give the well-connected audience a ‘slap in the face’. This is exactly the kind of brief I relish, so ...