To aid an episode of Matt Belloni’s podcast The Town with the Hollywood producer behind

For most of movie history, a movie had one producer.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the vast majority of movies credited just one producer. Even through the 1970s, producer teams were small and stable.

If you’ve spent more than five minutes learning about screenwriting, you’ll have encountered this rule:

Industry rule = One page of screenplay equals one minute of screen time.

It’s one of those pieces of received wisdom that gets repeated so often it starts to feel like a law of physics. Screenwriting books state it as fact. Coverage readers rely on it. Studio e...

I’m starting on a journey to track the numbers behind great acting. I began with a performance that breaks my heart every time I watch it - Emma Thompson’s in Love Actually.

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I have been on a bit of a mission in recent months to identify how movies are creatively changing. So far, I’ve shared how…

Movies are becoming more simplistic with