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Features
Screen at 40: Festival heads reflect on 2015 and beyond
There can be no doubt that 2015 has been a banner year for international cinema and, to celebrate, leading festival heads pick the films they believe we will still be talking about 40 years from now
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World of Locations: Montana
Though many of the film and TV productions that shoot in Montana do so because they tell local stories — the highest-profile recent visitor, Alexander Payne’s Oscar-nominated Nebraska, was, in spite of its title, set partly and shot in Montana — others come for the sweeping Great Plains vistas that ...
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Paddy Breathnach and Robert Walpole on Irish Oscar entry ‘Viva’
Director Paddy Breathnach and producer Robert Walpole recall the 17-year process behind their Oscar foreign-language contender Viva.
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Comment
David O’Russell talks 'Joy' at Bafta’s David Lean Lecture
The Joy director reflected on his filmography and his recurring collaborations.
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News
Warner Bros' Josh Berger named BFI chair
US executive to take over as chair of the BFI when Greg Dyke steps down early next year.
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Film tax relief reaches $372m in 2015
The relief generated a total of $1.5bn of investment in the UK this year, according to HM Treasury.
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'The Force Awakens' targets $1bn by Sunday
DECEMBER 25 UPDATE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens used an estimated $47.6m global take on Thursday as the space opera reached $813.5m worldwide.
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BFCA head defends 'Star Wars' Critics Choice nod
The president of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has defended Tuesday’s announcement adding Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a late eleventh best picture nominee in the group’s upcoming Critics’ Choice Awards.
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Features
Powster founder talks growth of online booking
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Ste Thomspon discusses what the future holds for the ticket booking market.
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Norway’s film and TV rebate to launch in January
Incentive scheme will offer $5.17m in its first year; Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman could be first beneficiary.
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Reviews
Team Screen’s best films of 2015
Find out what made our top 10 films of 2015 - and which films racked up the most mentions from Team Screen.
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Features
Pietro Valsecchi eyes box office gold in Checco Zalone comedy 'Quo Vado?'
Screen Subscribers: Screen sat down with the producer behind Italian hit factory Taodue.
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US Briefs: Breaking Glass acquires 'My Big Night'
Plus: Sony offers free Concussion screening to NFL players; and more…
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'Mockingjay – Part 2' crosses $600m worldwide
Lionsgate executives announced the milestone on Wednesday as the four-film franchise reached $2.9bn.
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‘Force Awakens’ scales $1.3bn global
JANUARY 1 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars behemoth added $38m worldwide on December 31 to reach $1.33bn and rank as the eighth biggest release of all time.
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'Force Awakens' adds $149.2m in record North America session
DECEMBER 28 UPDATE: A further confirmed $149.2m boosted Disney-Lucasfilms’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens past the half-billion mark in a huge Christmas weekend session and destroyed the second-weekend record of $106.6m set by Jurassic World back in the summer.
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US box office hits $11bn in 2015
DECEMBER 29 UPDATE: Combined grosses reached $11bn in North America on Tuesday according to Rentrak, powered by Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World. This was the first time Hollywood achieved the feat – at least when unadjusted for inflation.
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Haskell Wexler, Oscar-winning cinematographer, dies aged 93
The double Oscar-winning cinematographer who worked on One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest died in hospital in Santa Monica on Sunday. He was 93.
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Awards publicist Murray Weissman dies aged 90
The renowned publicist who represented the likes of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg, has died of pancreatic cancer surrounded by family at his Studio City home. He was 90.