After Hollywood
Phil Hoad surveys the box office stories beyond LA
Marvel rules, franchises dip, China thrives: 2013 global box office in review
Marvel triumphed again with Iron Man 3, but 2013 was behind 2012 in terms of really massive hits, and new franchises failed to ignite. Meanwhile, the Chinese market just keeps on growing
After Hollywood: where are the foreign film visionaries?
Hollywood still maintains a Usain Bolt-like gap over the world market. In his final After Hollywood column, Phil Hoad says it's time for foreign visionaries and mavericks to step up
Is Hollywood backing a blessing for local-language films – or a curse?
Phil Hoad: Big studios have poured money into foreign-language films – but is this just a backdoor way to dominate overseas markets?
How does Nollywood picture its LGBT community?
Phil Hoad: An explicit sex scene in a new film only highlights the problems Nigeria's film industry has with LGBT representation
Wadjda illustrates how Arab cinema is just beginning to come of age
Phil Hoad: Haifaa al-Mansour's endearing tale is as much about marketing as it is about Saudi women's rights
The World's End is the latest standard-bearer for British bathos
Phil Hoad: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and co excel at undercutting Hollywood pomposity: it's become the UK's abiding cinematic characteristic
Akira: the future-Tokyo story that brought anime west
The cult 1988 anime taught western film-makers new ideas in storytelling, and helped cartoons grow up, writes Phil Hoad
Austrian cinema: a province shaped by past masters of pessimism
Phil Hoad: From sex tourism to care-home degradation, Haneke and co venture undaunted into areas that Hollywood fears to tread
Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers
From After Earth to Oblivion, Hollywood's tales of renewed and rehabilitated planets still conceal uncanny and long-buried truths, writes Phil Hoad
Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir
Phil Hoad: Film-makers in Indonesia are harnessing Hollywood's dark arts to ask questions about their own society
Populaire success: the Weinsteins' ambiguous magic
Unbeatable salesmen of foreign-language films to English-speaking audiences, have they added unhealthy levels saccharine in the process?
Prophet boosting: the Muhammad films taking on interest in Islam
Phil Hoad: Two big-budget biopics of the prophet in production – difficulties around presenting his image notwithstanding – have genuine blockbuster potential, and could promote cultural dialogue
A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order
Phil Hoad: Film has moved on from the non-linear jigsaws once used to depict our globalised state. Mira Nair's thriller dynamic and the subtlety found in Danish counterpart A Hijacking point the direction things are going
Will platoon of Gallipoli films give Turkish audiences battle fatigue?
Phil Hoad: Hollywood often produces two films on one subject, but the six movies based on the Battle of Çanakkale are a sign of a healthy domestic market for Turkish products
Has Mexico's film industry been helped or harmed by Hollywood?
Phil Hoad: The success of rags-to-riches comedy Nosotros los Nobles confirms Mexico as a cinematic supremo, albeit one whose own prosperity hangs on its film-making neighbour to the north
Iron Man 3 illustrates a Chinese puzzle Hollywood is hoping to solve
Phil Hoad: US-Chinese co-productions don't appear to be hitting the spot, as Chinese film-makers are catering for domestic audiences with growing success
Thai horror film-makers sink teeth into south-east Asian market
Phil Hoad: Horror comedies such as Pee Mak Phrakanong could be hot exports for Thailand's rapidly improving film industry
US presidents on film: after the fall
While the Oval Office on film is as familiar as our front room, the American blockbuster is safe. But the post-US empire beckons, writes Phil Hoad
Hollywood's hold over global box office – 63% and falling
Phil Hoad: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has released its box-office report showing growth in the US and worldwide
Colonialism on film: how cinema finds new ways to bust an old Tabu
A pair of Portuguese-language films quietly examine the standoff between old Europe and modern multiculturalism, writes Phil Hoad
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