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Who owns the world’s biggest film festivals?
Earlier this year, the head of the Berlin Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, was criticised by Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, for standing next to filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and brandishing Palestinian flags.
“So what?” you m...
Are foreign actors taking over Hollywood?
If you’re an avid reader of culture journalists, then it seems as though there is always some country or other “taking over Hollywood”. In the 2000s it was the Australians. In the 2010s it was the Brits (when Spider-Man, Superman and Batman...
What gets a director a second film?
Ted Hope reached out to ask:
What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years?
A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a good haircut?
So I turned to the d...
Are movie end credits getting longer?
I saw Spider-Man: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among superhero movies.
On the one hand, it’s g...
What makes an agent actually read a cold email from a screenwriter?
A few weeks ago I published the first half of my conversations with the people who read cold scripts for a living. I spoke to 38 agents, managers, assistants and junior execs on which credentials actually get a script read.
We learned tha...
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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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