If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,000 films and 236,000 people. It gets north of eight million visitors a year , and is treated as THE definitive authority by journalists, academics, filmmakers, prediction markets , and even Guinness World Records .

And it was this GOAT status which caused the catastrophic events of March this year.

On the 5th March 2026, TheNumbers.com website vanished.

The site was down for over a week , without explanation. A week later, it resurfaced at a fraction of its former size.…