Every year the Black List crowns Hollywood's best unmade screenplays. I traced two decades of scripts and 1,682 writers to see if the list a brilliant talent-spotter, a genuine career-maker, or both.

I went through every craft in post-production, from VFX and de-ageing to voice, dubbing and the cutting room, checking the AI ...

The chart below is one such example of how Annenberg makes the case, highlighting the Sundance figure at 63.6% (in 2026) and ...

Erwin M. Schmidt reached out to point me to a new study of the survival rates of on-screen geologists in movies titled “Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel”. Four geologists at the University ...

Five years ago, 7,000 Hollywood writers fired their agents over a practice called packaging and won. That fight, though, was almost entirely about television, not film. The most pernicious version of ...

My latest Film Data Scientist video, this time quantifying the sheer scale of Steven Spielberg. ’ll be uploading new video essays every couple of weeks throughout 2026, so make sure you’re subscribed ...

Kane Parsons has just become the youngest person to direct a film that reached number 1 at the US box office with his smash hit Backrooms. Rather than celebrate this achievement, some have decided ...

Barton Weiss from VideoFest got in touch to ask: Do you know the percentage of a film festival’s budget that comes from entry fees? I have heard that it was 9% - what have you heard? Thirteen years ...