Filmmaker Huang Jianxin was awarded the 13th China Film Association's Ten Best Screenplays of the Year Award in Quanzhou, Fujian province on March 26, 2023. Recently, the first China Film Screenwriting Week concluded in Quanzhou, Fujian province, shining a spotlight on the screenwriters who usually work behind the scenes. The event, which was held together with the 13th China Film …
In 2009, filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos was given the original script for “The Favourite.” The historical tale of a triangle among an ailing Queen Anne and two of her closest associates in 18th century Britain struck him as an ideal narrative for the screen. “I never thought of it as anything else.” REVIEW: Wickedly entertaining ‘The Favourite’ forms a perfect triangle …
After days of silence, AR Murugadoss has responded to the plagiarism charges leveled against him by writer Varun Rajendran, who claims the director copied his script to create the Vijay Thalapathy-starrer Sarkar. On Friday, K Bhagyaraj, president of South Indian Film Writers’ Association, released a letter addressed to Varun stating that the story of Sarkar is the same as Sengol, …
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