Stephen Follows
@StephenFollows
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Film industry analyst. Consultant Guinness World Records @GWR Chairperson Central Film School @CFS_London Ex-Trustee @ReclaimTheFrame. Founder @CatsnakeStories.
Somerset House, London, UK
Joined July 2011
It lives! My Horror Movie Report 2.0 is now available at https://t.co/C9opNyY4Ef It's the ultimate data analysis of the horror genre - all 27,000 horror movies ever made.
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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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There are nine producers on the average movie. Nine! But does all that producing power make the film any better?
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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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Listen to The Town ⤵️ https://t.co/0FiRrUPTzT
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Podcast Episode · The Town with Matthew Belloni · 23/10/2025 · 35m
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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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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!
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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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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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I looked at the financial performance of over 10,000 movies and millions of audience responses to find out which creative decisions tend to correlate with profitability. Across genres, some creative signals show up again and again in films that succeed financially.
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I looked at 529 reported standing ovations across Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance to see if they predict anything meaningful.
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