I analysed 58,687 movie posters from the past century to see which colours dominate, how their use has shifted over time and ...

“Genre' movies” were the most likely to get the billing correct (70% of horror movies, and 69% of sci-fi), whereas musicals ...

Terrifying horror relies on the limitations low budgets forces upon filmmakers. Intimate drama and romance find their ...

What are the most common moral lessons within movies? I analysed 5,931 films released between 2016 and 2025 to see which moral lessons audiences encounter most often, from courage and teamwork to ...

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

Romance is playing an ever-smaller role in storytelling in movies, raising the question of whether audiences are losing interest or simply finding love elsewhere.

There are other elements and formatting rules but I'm focusing on the ones which affect our investigation of the one-minute-per-page rule. There are plenty of guides online on how to format a ...

How profitable are horror movies? Horror films have the highest likelihood of profitability among genres, but their success is heavily dependent on a few outliers, making the genre both enticing and ...

For the third part in my series on the financial side of the film industry, I am turning to profitability and asking "Do Hollywood movies make a profit?" Hollywood has a negative reputation when it ...