Tag: analysis

The critical failure of the Section 31 movie and reports of a 'Paramount Reset' reveal a dangerous trend. When the Federation prioritizes corporate safety over creative risk, we stop boldly going and start circling the drain.

Are movies actually getting better in 2026, or are we just rating them higher? I ran the question against every movie in the spameri.cz database with at least 100 Trakt votes — 5,433 films from 2015 through 2026 — and the answer is yes to both, but the math is more interesting than that.

Two films have combined for $1.14 billion worldwide in mere weeks, Q1 domestic revenue is up 24.8% year-over-year, and April has already surpassed 2024's entire monthly total in just 12 days. The numbers say the post-COVID recovery is finally real.

Evil Dead Burn is the latest in a long line of horror franchise comebacks. We ran the numbers on every major horror series revival — from Scream to Halloween to Alien — and found a pattern the studios definitely already know: horror is the safest bet in Hollywood.

Twelve films. Three decades. Seven Oscar wins. One director who turned IMAX cameras into a storytelling revolution. We ran the numbers on Christopher Nolan's entire career — the data tells the story of cinema's most bankable auteur.

Disney has spent a decade remaking its animated classics. We put every film through the data — box office, budgets, critic scores, audience scores, and ROI. The numbers tell a story the studio probably doesn't want you to see.

Three consecutive weekends. Three potential hundred-million-dollar openings. June 2026 just delivered the most concentrated box office battle in years — here's what the data reveals about who won, who got hurt, and what it means for the rest of the summer.

We dug into the spameri.cz database to find every Czech and Czechoslovak film we have indexed. Three Oscar wins, one of cinema's greatest directorial exports, and an average rating that consistently beats Hollywood averages. Here's what the numbers reveal about a century of Czech filmmaking.

Every January, the prediction industry publishes its forecasts for the year ahead. Five months and billions of dollars later, the data tells a very different story. Here's how the 2026 box office predictions actually held up — and what the gaps reveal about the state of the industry.

The first five months of 2026 produced the best Q1 since the pandemic, a $179 million A24 record, and three animated films in the top seven. Here's what the data reveals about where movies really stand.

Two of cinema's biggest prizes. Same art form, very different taste. We pulled runtime, genre, and origin data on every Palme d'Or and Best Picture winner since 2005 — and the numbers reveal two awards ceremonies that agree on almost nothing.

We queried 367,000 feature-length films from the spameri.cz database spanning six decades. The answer is yes — but not the way you think. The median movie barely budged. The real story is at the top.

Everyone says movies are getting worse. The data disagrees — at least for thrillers. We dug into 53,000 thriller movies in the spameri.cz database and found a surprising trend: after a decade-long dip, thriller ratings have been climbing since 2019.

The 98th Academy Awards gave us records, firsts, and a few curveballs. Jordan Blake digs into the data behind the golden statues — from Sinners' record-shattering 16 nominations to the birth of an entirely new Oscar category.