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How old is the average Oscar voter?
I’m working on a big project around the Oscars, and it's revealing just how sparse the research landscape is on Oscar voters.
For example, there is only one reliable source for the average age of Oscar voters. In 2012, the Los Angeles Tim...
Does going viral sell cinema tickets?
Using box off and audience data to determine when a meme is likely to actually put people in a cinema seat, versus when it just entertains people who were never going to buy a ticket.
A couple of years ago, Sony re-released a movie that ha...
Does winning a screenwriting contest mean agents will want to read your script?
Every year, tens of thousands of screenwriters pay to enter contests. A major selling point for them is that winning (or placing highly) will mean that the right people will finally read your script.
Some competitions directly provide top...
Do diverse movies really make more money?
Hollywood Gadfly reached out to ask me to look into the data around the recent UCLA Hollywood Diversity report (you can read his take here).
UCLA have been publishing annual reports on diversity in Hollywood since 2014 (covering films from...
Quantising Matt Damon's performances to decode his trick
In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m sciening the shit out of Matt Damon to see how we like these apples.
Put another way, I looked at over a million frames of Matt Damon’s on-screen performances to understand the power of his actin...
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I'm a film industry analyst, passionate about understanding how the industry works and sharing insights to help filmmakers get their projects funded, made, and seen. I consult for Guinness World Records on film-related records.
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