All Features articles – Page 424
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FeaturesTeam spirit
Do European screenwriters enjoy closer involvement with projects or do tensions with directors remain? Geoffrey Macnab discovers whether writers are receiving enough recognition for their work
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FeaturesTough times in Hollywood
Is the art of the screenwriter drowning in a sea of action blockbusters and diminishing budgets or will more writers follow in the wake of this year’s award winners, crafting screenplays with distinctive voices and sophisticated narratives? John Hazelton reports
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FeaturesCredit crunch
Is there a better method for assigning screenplay writing credits than the WGA’s controversial and complex arbitration procedures? John Hazelton talks to writers
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FeaturesThe art of travel
Animated films perform well at the global box office and are holding up on DVD, but how well do international productions perform outside their home territories? Leonard Klady reports
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FeaturesSpotlight on training
Read all about the courses inspiring Europe’s next generation of filmmakers and executives in Screen’s new European Training supplement.
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FeaturesHong Kong International Film Festival preview
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) celebrates an anniversary this year — its 35th — and is welcoming new executive director Roger Garcia, who joined in September
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FeaturesThe prize fighters
David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who together run Mandeville Films and Television, tell Jeremy Kay about the challenges of bringing two wildly different projects — The Fighter and The Muppets — to the screen
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FeaturesZeina Durra
British director Zeina Durra’s debut feature The Imperialists Are Alive! is screening at the Birds Eye View Film Festival in London this week. She talks to Screen about her upcoming projects and why she doesn’t want to be known as a ‘female film-maker.’
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FeaturesBattle: Los Angeles conquers UK box office
Sony’s action-sci-fi records a week-high location average of $6,872 (£4,269) to topple Rango from the number one slot.
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FeaturesMike Hodges
The director talks about the 40th anniversary of Get Carter, the state of the British film industry, and two new films he’d like to make.
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FeaturesSofia International Film Festival
The 15th Sofia International Film Festival ran March 4-13 in Bulgaria.
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FeaturesWeekly International Box Office March 04-06
The King’s Speech finally made it to the top of the international chart in its 11th week, grossing $20.1m from a week-high 51 territories.
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FeaturesRachel Millward
The director of the Birds Eye View Film Festival, which kicked off in London this week, shares some of the highlights of this year’s edition and her views on female presence in the film industry.
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FeaturesEuropean industry mobilises ahead of MEDIA hearing
European film professionals are anxious to hear what’s discussed on March 18 about the hotly debated future of the MEDIA Programme.
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FeaturesKatherine Butler, Film4
Film4’s senior commissioning executive talks to Screen about the Film4 philosophy, discovering new talent and why SXSW is the festival to be at.
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FeaturesDavid Mackenzie
The prolific Scottish director talks about the challenges of a quick shoot for You Instead (which has its US premiere at SXSW on Saturday) as well as his new plans for a sci-fi adaptation and a film set on the world’s most remote inhabited island.
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FeaturesRango the new sheriff at the UK box office
In a busy week, Univeral’s The Adjustment Bureau opens in second place and Optimum has its best opening with Unknown.
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FeaturesNorwegian Wood UK premiere
Soda Pictures celebrated the UK launch of Norwegian Wood with a packed screening at BAFTA (also the opening night selection for Asia House’s Pan Asia Film Festival) and a glamorous after-party at London’s Haunch of Venison Gallery.
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FeaturesZagrebDox, Croatia
Winners and attendees at ZagrebDox (Feb 27 - March 06), the biggest documentary festival in the Balkans