Reports
2012 preview
2012 preview: world cinema
Big name directors and some ambitious local productions are in full evidence at theatres and on the film festival circuit this year.
2012 preview: the prestige pictures
There is a wealth of high-prestige pictures set for release this year and a potentially classic end-of-year awards season featuring new movies by Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, the Coen brothers, Terrence Malick, Quentin Tarantino, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Thomas Anderson, David O Russell, Tom Hooper and Kathryn Bigelow. Mike Goodridge and Leon Forde profile the movies being readied for the awards podium in 2013, both with US distribution in place and without.
2012 preview: tentpoles
Screen previews 30 studio tentpole pictures that hope to dominate screen space across the world in 2012.
2012 preview: Best of British
2011 saw a slew of UK movies connect with audiences at home and abroad, including The King’s Speech, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Senna and The Inbetweeners Movie. Which of this crop will do the same in 2012?
Hot Talent
Stars of Tomorrow 2011
Screen presents the Stars of Tomorrow 2011 — talent destined to shine on the international stage. These rising actors, directors and writers were selected and profiled by Fionnuala Halligan.
The French 50
The French 50
France has a dynamic film industry with a global outlook, and its leading players will all be in Cannes. Screen profiles the industry insiders, producers, distributors, sales companies and financiers it pays to know
Public Funding In Europe
Something to defend
As the British Film Institute takes over the distribution of public film funds to UK producers, Screen asks what makes a good national film fund and how can success be measured?
People
Gore Verbinski
The American director reflects on the making of Rango, which recently won top honours at the Annie Awards and is up for an Academy Award.
Spotlight on International Projects
Monsoon Shootout
Amit Kumar, director of award-winning short The Bypass, talks about his debut feature Monsoon Shootout, produced by the UK’s Trevor Ingman.
Global Soft Money
Incentives survive global cutbacks
Austerity measures may be kicking in around the world, but governments are keener than ever to use financial incentives to attract inward investment from international film productions. Geoffrey Macnab reports
