I spent the first week of Toronto’s new film market on the floor, then went through three years of Canadian public accounts, 145 dated statements and the attendance records of four other markets to wo ...
In early 1986, Frank Oz held preview screenings of Little Shop of Horrors in San Jose. He stayed faithful to the musical it was based on, so the movie climaxed with both Seymour and Audrey dying, the ...
Ted Hope reached out to ask: What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years? A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a ...
Earlier this year, the head of the Berlin Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, was criticised by Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, for standing next to filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and ...
We are eight months away from the 2027 Cannes Film Festival, and already all but one of the five-star hotels have stopped taking bookings. I know you will be gutted to not be able to book a five-star ...
This month, we’ve seen the stellar performance of Obsession (currently $147 million at the worldwide box office - almost 80 times its budget), which has led readers to get in touch to ask if this ...
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films. He claimed that international tax incentives were draining American productions from US soil and accused ...
Some see the Oscars as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, a night of cinematic excellence that honours the best of the best. Others view it a TV reality show in which over-paid and over-dressed ...
Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...
This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I explore the evolving landscape of the film industry. Each instalment will focus on one of the key shifts highlighted below, digging deeper ...
This is part two of my collaboration with Screendollars in which we spoke to 246 cinema owners and film professionals affiliated with exhibitors. We quizzed them on a range of topics, and their ...