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France was one of the first countries to require streamers to invest in the local film and TV production sector. Three years on, its impact is being felt. A comprehensive study from the CNC and French audiovisual regulatory authority Arcom published in late November revealed the impact of the introduction of the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) in France on the country’s film and TV sector. The AVMSD requires the US streamers to invest at least 20% of their annual turnover in local film and TV. According to the report, it has given the French industry a nearly…

Korean drama Firefighters rose to the top of the local box office this weekend, despite a swell of political controversy linked to the director’s brother. The film opened on December 4 and ranked second after its first weekend but has climbed to the top on its second outing, taking $4.38m from just over 657,000 admissions and a 41.9% market share from Friday to Sunday (December 13-15). The 17% uptick in sales from its opening weekend has brought its cume to $11.7m, according to Kobis, the Korean Film Council’s box office tracking service. Awareness of the film has risen as the…

Thirty-six Australian features with theatrical distribution in place went into production in Australia in the 12 months to June 30 2024, according to Screen Australia’s annual drama report. They included Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk To Me horror sequel Bring Her Back for Causeway Films, Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals for Brouhaha Entertainment and Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa for Closer Filns.  Total budgets reached A$214 million, a 50% fall on the five-year average as few had significant budgets and 44% were budgeted between A$1 million and A$5 million. International investment accounted for just 27% of the slate, the lowest contribution for a decade, while tax breaks or discretionary direct…

Worldwide box office November 29-December 1 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l)Territories  1. Moana 2 (Disney)  $300.8m  $386.3m  $165.3m  $165.3m  51  2. Wicked (Universal)  $109m  $359.3m  $29m  $96.9m  62  3.  Gladiator II (Paramount)  $57.9m  $320m  $27.2m  $208.8m  65  4.  Red One (Warner Bros)  $17.9m  $148.7m  $5m  $72.6m  76  5.  Her Story (various)  $17.5m  $38.8m  $17.5m  $38.8m  6  6.  Venom: The Last Dance (Sony)  $6m  $468.2m  $3.8m  $330.3m  67  7.  Heretic (various)  $3.3m  $38.7m  $2.4m  $11.9m  28  8.  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (various)  $3.3m  $32.1m  $10,000  $145,000  3 …

Tunisian drama Red Path, directed by Lotfi Achour, scooped the Golden Yusr for best film and the prize for best director at the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival on Thursday (December 12). The main award was presented by jury head and Oscar-winning US filmmaker Spike Lee at a ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Scroll down for full list of winners On stage, Lee declared that it was also Achour’s birthday, meaning the best film and director awards are quite the present, coming with cash prizes of $100,000 and $30,000 respectively. The film, which premiered at Locarno, is inspired by…

Sundance Film Festival’s 2025 line-up comprises 87 features, nearly half of which are directed by women, and is crammed with new work by returning stars and indie stalwarts including Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Lopez, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Ruffalo, and Dev Patel. Among anticipated highlights are the feature directorial debut of UK playwright and incoming Young Vic artistic director Nadia Fall with her Bankside Films sales title Brides in World Cinema Dramatic Competition, about teenage friends who plan to travel to Syria.  Scroll down for the full line-up Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama in Premieres about the New York portrait photographer starring…

Musical Wicked is hoping to bewitch audiences this weekend, coming out in 698 sites for Universal. The first of a two-part adaptation of the stage musical stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, with Jon M Chu directing. Elphaba (Erivo), a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda (Grande), a more conventional and popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. Their friendship is taken in a new direction after they cross paths with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wicked is the third in a trio of blockbuster…

Emilia Perez earned the most film nominations for the 2025 Golden Globes, with 10 nods, followed by The Brutalist on seven and Conclave on six. Emilia Perez is up for best drama, director and screenplay for Jacques Audiard, with Karla Sofía Gascón nominated for actress – musical or comedy, and Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana both up for supporting actress. The Brutalist is competing for best drama, director and screenplay for Brady Corbet, plus acting nods for Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones. Next up on the film side are Sean Baker’s Anora and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance with…

The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) winners are being unveiled from a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse.  Scroll down for winners Screen is updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced – refresh this page for the latest winners. Scroll down for the full nominations and craft winners. Sophie Okonedo is receiving the Richard Harris award. The actor is best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2004’s Hotel Rwanda  while her other film credits include The Secret Lie Of Bees, Christopher Robin, Wild Rose, Death On The Nile  and Catherine Called Birdy. Bifa winners 2024  Winners in bold, latest award top Breakthrough performance Nykiya Adams…

The European Film Awards is taking place in the Swiss city of Lucerne tonight (December 7) and Screen is revealing the winners live from the ceremony, which kicked off at 20.00 CET. Scroll down for winners To read the winners as they are announced, you can refresh the page and scroll down to the full list below.  The ceremony is also being live-streamed below. Emilia Pérez and The Room Next Door are the front-runners for this year’s awards with four nominations apiece. Fifteen features compete for the best European film prize, up from five last year. This follows a recent…