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FeaturesFar East festivals compete for market attention
In an Asian version of the Venice-Toronto marathon, the credits have now rolled on the Pusan and Tokyo film festivals. International buyers and sellers tell Liz Shackleton which event they found to be the most useful.
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Your Highness
Fantasy drama about a prince and his brother who must compete to save their father’s kingdom.
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FeaturesWeekly international box office – October 23
Screen brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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FeaturesChile heat
Oscar-winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba unveiled his first new dramatic feature in seven years, the Chile-set The Dancer And The Thief, at San Sebastian last month. Chris Evans reports
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FeaturesImax Transformed
As exhibitors and studios alike strive to make the theatrical experience one worth leaving the house for, the long-struggling Imax Corp is finally finding its groove and is set to go into the black for the first time. Jeremy Kay spoke to CEO
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FeaturesJapan, caution
The collapse in Japan’s independent distribution sector has made the territory one of the most difficult for foreign films to crack ‹ and nor are Hollywood studio films working. Jason Gray reports
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FeaturesCan the writers change the script?
On paper, these cash-conscious times look particularly tough for screenwriters. But, as Geoffrey Macnab reports, the sector is also developing a powerful sense of collective identity which may help to redefine the writers’ role in the film-making process
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FeaturesInternational Screenwriters' Festival
“Each time I’ve been, I’ve been really astonished at how rewarding it is. It makes you realise how isolated writers are on the whole,” says screenwriter Olivia Hetreed of the International Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham, UK.The fourth edition of the festival runs from October 26-29 this ...
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FeaturesWorld Standard
Screen highlights the films shortlisted for this year’s Hollywood World Award.
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FeaturesEmpowering Audiences is Cross-Media Mission
Michael Gubbins looks at some of the main conference themes discussed at the Power to the Pixel London Forum.
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FeaturesWhere to find the serious money
Heavyweight international financiers will be in London this week to discover the best UK and European projects in search of investment at this year’s Production Finance Market (Oct 21-22). Geoffrey Macnab looks at what’s on offer.
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Fliegende Fische
Comedy/drama about 16-year-old Nana trying to calm down her mother’s embarrassing lifestyle by pairing her off with a decent man… until Nana herself ends up falling in love with “Mr. Right”.
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FeaturesWeekly international box office – October 16
Screen brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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Operation Casablanca
A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwideterrorist plot.
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Die Superbullen
Comedy about Germany’s stupidest cops Tommie and Mario whose latest case is to find the billy goat Hennes, the mascot of their beloved football team 1st FC Cologne.
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Mahler Auf Der Couch
Alma Mahler, her older husband the composer Gustav Mahler, her lover Walter Gropius…. and Sigmund Freud.
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Hochzeitspolka
The German Frieder has been living in the deepest backwoods of Poland for the past two years. Of all days, his childhood friends - with whom he played in a hard rock band back home - turn up on the day of his wedding to the Polish girl Gosia.
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Hier Kommt Lola!
Family film, based on Isabel Abedi’s first book about the adventures of schoolgirl Lola with her colourful imagination.
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Furcht & Zittern
A man suffering from agoraphobia and panic attacks leaves his appartment for the first timein years only to be taken hostage by a woman 20 years his elder.