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We are eight months away from the 2027 Cannes Film Festival, and already all but one of the five-star hotels have stopped taking bookings.

I know you will be gutted to not be able to book a five-star room today. Especially when you consider that during the


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Next week sees the start of the 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, along with the inaugural year of its new sister event, TIFF: The Market.


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Despite the massive changes in production, exhibition, and home entertainment over the past twenty years, it’s always surprising to me how similar the sales side of the film business has remained.

The standard route to market has barely changed. A film's producer signs with a single sales agent, who gains the exclusive right to represent the film at film markets (such a...


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In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m going deep on “The Greatest Movies Ever Made”©®™ to understand what makes a movie great and why that classification may slip over time.

I am uploading new video essays every couple of weeks, so make sure you’re


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Earlier this year, the head of the Berlin Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, was criticised by Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, for standing next to filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and brandishing Pales...


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