How many Hallmark Christmas movies are there?! - Stephen Follows
Aug 19, 2024 · On the latest episode of the podcast Scriptnotes, the hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, were talking about Hallmark Christmas movies.Craig asked, “ How many do we think there have been? ” to which John replied, “ I think Stephen Follows, the data expert, could generate a database “. As many of you will know, John is the screenwriter of the recent Disney Aladdin movie, and so *poof ...
How is a cinema's box office income distributed? - Stephen Follows
Feb 20, 2017 · The keen-eyed among you will have noticed in the previous graphic that although our film grossed $75 million, we only received $34 million. This is because before we get our hands on box office income, there are two big deductions.
Stephen Follows - Using data to explain the film industry
I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry, by Stephen Follows, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Film vs movie - Which is the best term to use? - Stephen Follows
Aug 8, 2016 · At the start of last year I performed a big research project into the film industry press, and so I was able to analyse my cache of 239,720 industry headlines for uses of the terms film and movie. The results were very similar, with four times as many headlines featuring film than those using movie.The UK-based publication Screen International used the term movie very infrequently (in just 115 ...
Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Dec 5, 2021 · The script. By going back to the film's script we are able to see what the screenwriters saw as part of their vision. The word "Christmas" appears 18 times in the script, which is more than the words "explode" (4), "die" (5),"hard" (11), "shoot" (12), "kill" (13) and "blood" (13), although far fewer times than"gun" (73), "terrorist" (51) and "suddenly" (45).
What are the most commonly used movie clichés?
May 18, 2024 · Last week, a group of friends and I watched Last Action Hero (1993). The script started life as a satire on dumb action moves (its original title was "Extremely Violent") but was so heavily re-written during development and production that (a) its original writers lost their full writing credit, and (b) it became the exact thing it was looking to send up - …
How many shots are in the average movie? - Stephen Follows
Jul 3, 2017 · To end this piece, let's compare two movies which came out in cinemas only a few days apart - Woody Allen's Whatever Works (starring Larry David) and Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (starring a truck which is also a robot).. Whatever Works. Total number of shots = 318
When did colour films eclipse black-and-white films?
Mar 18, 2024 · Despite the allure of colour, financial constraints meant that in the 1940s and 50s, black and white remained the economical choice for filmmakers, with colour films requiring nearly three times the budget, a factor that played a part in studios' cautious approach to …
Defining the average screenplay, via data on 12,000+ scripts
Feb 4, 2019 · Last week, I published my analysis of 12,309 feature film screenplays and the scores they each received from professional script readers.. A byproduct of that research was that I had a large number of data points on a whole bunch of screenplays. This allowed me to look at what the average screenplay contains.
How long does the average Hollywood movie take to make?
May 7, 2018 · The ratio between the number of days spent planning the shoot and actually filming was broadly similar for most genres. Horror had the smallest (average of 92 days prep for an 81-day shoot = 113% of the shoot time spent in prep) while most genres were around 140% of shoot time spent in pre-production.