Tyler Perry rewrote the rules of independent filmmaking, building his own audience studio and creative system from the ground ...

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Insights from studying almost two thousand real Hollywood assistant jobs, and how to position yourself as their ideal candidate.

How a carefully balanced mix of creative risk-taking, financial discipline and audience-first thinking turned an indie studio into a cultural powerhouse.

So perhaps the most direct answer to the question ‘When was the Visual Effects business not in crisis?’ is 2018 and 2021. Let’s spend a moment to go a little deeper into the types of crisis we’re ...

Studios and investors tend to reserve big budgets for films with broad mainstream appeal, and horror is no exception. That’s ...

Hollywood cash has fuelled a record-breaking recovery for UK film and TV production, but beneath the headline figures, ...

Determining if a film has a number in its title is harder than it first seems. Some are obvious, like 1917, 2046, or Room 237 or the flurry of nine-based films released in 2009 - 9, 9, Nine, Nine Dead ...

This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment will focus on one of the key shifts highlighted below, digging deeper ...