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Bigger Picture Research
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A no-nonsense look at film biz research from around the world.
Recent Posts
Montage: film in Russia and alternative cinema content globally
In between toiling to service the debt I call home and navigating the twinkly distractions of the festive season, there’s just time for a quick round up of recent(ish) film research developments, beginning with last week’s publication by the Eur...
UK cinema admissions, October 2009
It’s that time again (how quick the new month comes around…). The Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) has just published the latest batch of UK admissions figures, which show ticket sales remain at their highest level since 2002 (Figure 1). ...
Awe inspiring visuals: infographics and film
The information superhighway (what a quaint term that now seems) poses any number of challenges to the unwary traveller. Unlimited diversions, search induced dead ends, drive-through porn, the unwanted attentions of identity thieves, and so on.Tha...
Australian feature film production 2008/09
Australia witnessed a surge in production activity last year (2008/09), with a sharp rise in budget expenditure according to results of the latest annual National Survey of Feature Film and TV Drama Production published earlier this month by Screen ...
The Winslet algorithm: a news MacGuffin
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture to third year Media Arts students at the University of Ulster. As a lapsed academic of no great repute this is not my usual sort of gig, but I was grateful for the invitation from Professor M...
UK feature film certification data, January to September 2009
The level of UK feature production activity looks to be on the rise according to data published last week by the UK Film Council.The number of interim certifications awarded by the Secretary of State, a rough-and-ready upstream indicator of future p...

