Stephen Follows wonders why filmmakers are afraid to ask their audience

Today's HFF TakeOver is awash in data! research! and YouTube cartoons!

Hi. I’m Stephen Follows and you probably know of my film data research. I publish a couple times a week on my Substack, using the lens of data to understand how the film industry really operates. I work for filmmakers, studios, investors and Guinness World Records. Outside of the spreadsheets I’m also a writer, producer, and I run a story agency in Lond…