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On Monday, I published a piece on whether a famous lead actually pays off at the box office.
A few readers reached out to ask whether I had taken the films’ quality into account. I had, but what stuck with me was how many people clearly assumed tha...
This month, we’ve seen the stellar performance of Obsession (currently $147 million at the worldwide box office - almost 80 times its budget), which has led r...
Never did I think studying film data would get me in trouble for being too sexy.
Last month, YouTube took offence to one of my Film Data Scientist videos on the decline in sex on movies. I got it up, but YouTube couldn’t last 10 minutes, and the video went dow...
Technically, the Festival de Cannes has another six days to run, but the business side of the Marche du Film is already over.
I have spent the past week talking with people, walking the Marché...
No one says "Follow that car!" anymore... and there's a reason why.
I ran the numbers on over 72,000 films to find the most reused lines in cinema, revealing how movie clichés are born, spread, and die.
Chapters00:00 - Movie clichés are good, actually