Film industry analyst. Consultant Guinness World Records @GWR Chairperson Central Film School @CFS_London Ex-Trustee @ReclaimTheFrame. Founder @CatsnakeStories.
Joined July 2011
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21 Oct 2024
It lives! My Horror Movie Report 2.0 is now available at horrormoviereport.com It's the ultimate data analysis of the horror genre - all 27,000 horror movies ever made.
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New pod: Fascinating new data on the length of movies. Yes, they’re getting longer overall, but only certain genres. Why? With producer @Todd_Garner and data from @StephenFollows. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/episode/1iD…
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Feb 26
Very interesting read about IMDb’s 1 and 10 star ratings. If you’re an indie filmmaker I’m sure your films have been review bombed. Happens all the time.👇🏻
open.substack.com/pub/stephe…
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27 Dec 2025
Our @filmmakerspod Christmas Special | QUIZ of the year | what will 2026 have in store for filmmakers!!!
Listen here: pod.fo/e/36c35e
#TheFilmmakersPodcast #podcast #filmmakers #directing @DirDomLenoir @philmblog @fizzandginger @LucindaRhodes @StephenFollows
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12 Dec 2025
Does media attention correlate with Oscar nominations and wins? A new study from @StephenFollows offers compelling evidence. ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/can-media-coverage…
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Hollywood spends a fortune chasing awards buzz. Does it work?
@MattBelloni breaks down the numbers (and myths) behind awards season: puck.news/can-media-coverage…
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10 Nov 2025
The most basic film statistic of how much a movie cost is disappearing, as budgets are now missing for over 95% of recent releases.
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6 Nov 2025
There are nine producers on the average movie. Nine! But does all that producing power make the film any better?
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27 Oct 2025
A while back, David Nicholas Wilkinson asked me whether offering “With Thanks” credits to crowdfunding backers could make a film look bad. To find out, I analysed 8,096 movies to see what the data said.
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24 Oct 2025
Standing ovations are everywhere at festivals, but do they mean anything? I analysed the data, spoke with critics, and discussed it with @MattBelloni (@pucknews founding partner) on his awesome podcast, The Town.
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23 Oct 2025
New pod: Finally, some REAL DATA behind the insane rise in media coverage of film fest standing ovations. And does the applause eventually translate into dollars?? With researcher @StephenFollows. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1lK…
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15 Oct 2025
Cinema leaders have long argued that pricing doesn’t matter, yet almost all public polls say otherwise. I looked at what the data tells us & talked with Vue's Tim Richards, who's reversed his position after realising that pricing wasn’t a side issue but the heart of the problem.
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13 Oct 2025
Last Friday I joined @jason_blum and the @blumhouse team in New York for an event all about how we see and discuss horror, and why our thinking needs to evolve.
To prepare for the event, I took a look how what’s changing in the horror genre, and what might be yet to come.
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