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Screen International

Cover of 16 February 2024 (#1951) issue, featuringPerfect Days
Editor	Matt Mueller
Former editors	Wendy Mitchell
Categories	Trade journal
Frequency	10 issues per year
First issue	1889; 136 years ago (1889)
Company	Media Business Insight
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London,England
Language	English
Website	www.screendaily.com
ISSN	0307-4617

Screen International is a Britishfilm magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company which also ownedBroadcast.

The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. The magazine in its current form was founded in 1975,^[1] and its website,Screendaily.com, was added in 2001.

Screen International also produces daily publications atfilm festivals and markets inBerlin, Germany;Cannes, France;Toronto,Ontario, Canada; theAmerican Film Market inSanta Monica, California; andHong Kong.

Screen International traces its history back to 1889 with the publication ofOptical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger.^[2] At the turn of the 20th century, the name changed toCinematographic Journal and in 1907 it was renamedKinematograph and Lantern Weekly.

Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly contained trade news, advertisements, reviews, exhibition advice, and reports of regional and national meetings of trade organisations such as theCinematograph Exhibitors' Association and the Kinema Renters' Society. It was first published by pioneering film enthusiast, industrialist and printing entrepreneurE. T. Heron. In 1919 it was renamedKinematograph Weekly which was further shortened in 1959 toKine Weekly.

The title was sold to British and American Film Holdings Ltd in September 1971, which merged it with rival film-trade paperToday's Cinema.^[3][4] It was later renamedCinemaTV Today.

In 1975, Peter King purchased the strugglingCinemaTV Today fromSir John Woolf for£50,000 (equivalent to £530,000 in 2023) and relaunched the publication asScreen International.^[3][5] The first issue ofScreen International was published on 6 September 1975. King sold the magazine in 1989 to theInternational Thomson Organization.^[3] EMAP acquired it in 1993.^[6]Ascential later sold the magazine as part of amanagement buyout of Media Business Insight division in 2015.^[7]

ManyScreen International journalists have gone on to become major industry figures, includingColin Vaines, who ran production for companies such asMiramax and GK Films, and who has produced many award-winning film and television projects.^[5]

In addition to its print magazine,Screen International maintainsScreen Daily, a website providing a real-time view of the film industry.^[8]

The editors ofScreen International include:

• Peter Noble (1975–79)^[5]
• Quentin Falk, Editor (1979–1982)^[3]
• Colin Vaines, Co-Editor (1982–83)^[5]
• Adrian Hodges, Co-Editor (1982–83)^[5]
• Terry Ilott, Editor (1983–87)
• Nick Roddick, Editor (1987–88)
• Oscar Moore (1991–94)^[9]
• Boyd Farrow, Editor (1995–98)
• Colin Brown, Editor-in-Chief (1998–2008)
• Michael Gubbins, Editor (2004–09)
• Mike Goodridge, Editor (2009–2012)
• Wendy Mitchell, Editor (2012–14)
• Matt Mueller, Editor (2015–present)

Screen International has offices in London.

It has a network of more than forty correspondents around the world. It hosts conferences, including the annual European Film Finance Summit in Berlin and the UK Film Finance Conference in London.

A formereditor in chief,Oscar Moore—who was also a columnist forThe Guardian and anovelist—died of anAIDS-related illness in 1996. The Oscar Moore Foundation was established in 1997 as acharitable foundation administered byScreen International. The foundation's aim is to foster new Europeanscreenwriting talent by awarding an annual prize of£10,000 to the best first draftscreenplay in agenre which changes each year. A foundation patron,Emma Thompson, is an actress and screenwriter who has won anAcademy Award for both disciplines.

Screen International produces an annual list of up and coming international talent, under its Stars of Tomorrow (a.k.a. Screen Stars of Tomorrow) brand. A special edition of the magazine to highlight up-and-coming talent was established in 2004 in the UK. Since 2010, Stars of Tomorrow has been curated by Fionnuala Halligan, who – as of 2023 – is the magazine's executive editor for reviews and new talent.[10]

The magazine's international competitors include its American counterpartsVariety,The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.

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