StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry

A couple of years ago, Sony re-released a movie that had flopped only a few months earlier.

Morbius had died at the box office in April 2022, opening to $...

Every year, tens of thousands of screenwriters pay to enter contests. A major selling point for them is that winning (or placing highly) will mean that the right people will finally read your script.

Some competitions directly provide top scripts to influential industry people during or just after the competition runs. Beyond that, the implication is that having placed ...

Hollywood Gadfly reached out to ask me to look into the data around the recent UCLA Hollywood Diversity report

In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m sciening the shit out of Matt Damon to see how we like these apples.

Put another way, I looked at over a million frames of Matt Damon’s on-screen performances to understand the power of his acting and his enduring ch...

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,00...