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I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry, by Stephen Follows, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry, by Stephen Follows, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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1 day ago · Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined by almost 40% over the past quarter-century.. At the time, I was asked whether we could see a comparable decline in levels of romance or if we'd just lost the meaningless sex (which happens to us all, with time).

Feb 12, 2018 · A few years ago, I looked at what genres are disproportionately popular with cinema audiences around the world. We learned that Italians enjoyed more comedies, that Asian nations love action, Europeans love drama and that …

Jan 2, 2018 · The reason for this disparity is that the large increase in real life movies has mostly been in lower-budget filmmaking, with only 2.9% of movies budgeted over $100m being based on actual events (including Deepwater Horizon, Alexander, Pearl Harbor, The Perfect Storm, The Aviator, Ali and American Gangster).. Within fiction, drama movies have the …

Oct 16, 2024 · There will be no change. If you were on my previous mailing list, you have been moved over to the Substack replacement and will continue to get my weekly emails each Monday.

Apr 15, 2024 · Forty years ago, about the same proportion of movies being made were original screenplays as they are today. That's quite surprising - both because I assume that many people expected it to be lower in recent years, but also because little stays the same in the film industry over such a long period of time.

Jan 3, 2017 · Shooting a feature film used to be very hard and very expensive. When Danny Boyle was trying to make his first feature, Shallow Grave, in 1993, he was told he was mad for trying to make a film on a mere £1 million (£1.9m in 2017 money).