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Screen DailyCinemaUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Wild Horse Nine’, ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ stomp into cinemas ‘La Bola Negra’, ‘I Play Rocky’ and ‘George Michael: The Faith Tour’ are also out this weekend.

11.06

Screen DailyCinemaKiernan Shipka among new cast to join AFM psychothriller ‘Hyena’ with late David Lynch as EP ahead of Q1 shoot Kiernan Shipka, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Edgar Ramírez, Rosemarie DeWitt to star. Upgrade, WME Independent selling.

11.05

Screen DailyCinemaItaly passes sweeping film and TV reform, with measures to attract international shoots Reform paves way for new cinema agency, a restructuring of public incentives and measures designed to attract more international productions.

11.05

Screen DailyCinemaRussell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault Brand should expect a “custodial sentence of some length” according to judge Mr Justice Bennathan.

11.05

Screen DailyCinemaWhat do the Bifa nominations say about the UK indie film industry? - The Screen Podcast Talking points include the lack of female filmmakers and the disappearance of micro-budget features.

11.05

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo