Feb 4, 2019 · Last week, I published my analysis of 12,309 feature film screenplays and the scores they each received from professional script readers.. A byproduct of that research was that I had a large number of data points on a whole bunch of screenplays. This allowed me to look at what the average screenplay contains.

Feb 27, 2017 · We're talking about what's known as the "P&A", which stands for Prints and Advertising. The prints are the copies of the film which cinemas run in their projectors (either physical film or digital files) and the advertising is all the promotional activity designed to inform the public about the movie and encourage them to see it.

Jan 18, 2016 · At first glance, it may look as though UK films are significantly shorter than Hollywood films but this is a consequence of the differing criterias for the two datasets, rather than there being a cultural difference between the movies that Britain and America produce.

Aug 8, 2016 · At the start of last year I performed a big research project into the film industry press, and so I was able to analyse my cache of 239,720 industry headlines for uses of the terms film and movie. The results were very similar, with four times as many headlines featuring film than those using movie.The UK-based publication Screen International used the term movie very infrequently (in just 115 ...

Feb 20, 2017 · The keen-eyed among you will have noticed in the previous graphic that although our film grossed $75 million, we only received $34 million. This is because before we get our hands on box office income, there are two big deductions.

4 days 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).

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.

Aug 19, 2024 · On the latest episode of the podcast Scriptnotes, the hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, were talking about Hallmark Christmas movies.Craig asked, “ How many do we think there have been? ” to which John replied, “ I think Stephen Follows, the data expert, could generate a database “. As many of you will know, John is the screenwriter of the recent Disney Aladdin movie, and so *poof ...

Jul 24, 2017 · er for what would become the 1998 version of Godzilla. The teaser trailer had a production budget of $600k and featured no footage from the final movie, due to the fact that it was completed before the main movie had even been shot! This is a rarity but teaser trailers still abound. Using data from my previous trailer database and publically available release data, I narrowed in on 1,000 ...

Sep 14, 2024 · 78% of festivals start accepting submissions for at least six months before their festival runs. This will be for a variety of reasons, ranging from wanting to give filmmakers the best chance of making their deadlines and wanting to have multiple “late” deadlines as each usually sees an increase in the fees charged.