Stephen Follows
I traced who represented the key creatives on 2,058 big films at the moment each deal was struck, then counted how often it was all one agency.
I crunched the numbers on 2,756 films to see if there is a connection between how audiences and critics rate them and the cast’s star power.
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.
I analysed over 200,000 errors across 11,842 films released between 1930 and 2025, to understand where and how audiences say movies gets facts, physics, and history wrong.
It’s a common claim that movies today feel more intense than they used to.