Last Friday I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference of the German Producer Alliance as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the event’s curator, Erwin M.

I saw Jurassic Park: Rebirth in my local cinema this weekend and I’m annoyed. Now, I know what you’re thinking - How can they possibly justify that title, given that: Of the nine featured dinosaurs, ...

The Berlin and Cannes film festivals are such big events in my professional calendar, and as they take place in February and May, respectively, I tend to regard the first half of the year as the ...

My recent article on the prevalence and types of plot twists brought on a flurry of interesting reader questions. Unlike that article, there are no spoilers in today’s piece. (I figured that ruining ...

At every grade, the films watched mostly by women get the lower IMDb rating. Among films graded A or A+ on opening night, the ...

Digger, starring Tom Cruise, opens today. Apparently it cost $125 million to make, but Deadline’s current tracking estimates its ‘domestic debut prospects’ at ‘around $20M’. Deadline is not alone - ...

A few days ago, a new UK film distributor, True Brit Entertainment, went into administration. It had been launched under three years ago, intending to co-finance $150m of British films. In the end, it ...

As with all the best questions I answer, this one came from Ted Hope. Ted sat on the Debut film jury at the recent Venice Film Festival and emailed to ask: I was surprised to learn that the Venice ...

I am writing this as I fly out of Toronto, after spending five days at the film industry’s brand-new major market, TIFF: The Market, attached to the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. A number ...

And he doesn’t just cover movies - he goes deep into TV, music and culture. Some of his stone-cold classics are: I’m a huge fan, and if you like the kinds of things I write about, then you’ll love his ...