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An Australian drama featuring two indigenous kids living in the middle of the vast continent has taken the top prize at Asia-Pacific's film awards.

"Samson & Delilah" scooped the Best Feature Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards held each year in Queensland, Australia.

Director Warwick Thornton's debut showed at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and was awarded the Camera d'Or for best first feature.

Read more about the APSA winners here.

Working together must be easy for Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, the award-winning movie producers.

More often than not, the co-chairmen of Working Title Films finish off each other's sentences, revealing a mutual respect that has its roots in a strong friendship that has spanned two decades.

The London-based producers began working together in 1992. Two years later, they had their first massive hit, "Four Weddings and a Funeral." It took $245 million worldwide by then ticket prices, according to boxofficemojo.com, with more than three-quarters of that coming from outside the United States.

Since then the pair have been on a rollercoaster ride. Their long list of worldwide blockbusters includes "Bridget Jones Diary," "Notting Hill" and "Billy Elliott," proving, more than once, that you don't have to be American to be a success in Hollywood.

Here, the champions of the British film industry talk exclusively to CNN about the future of movies, bad reviews and why they don't sleep at nights.

Read more about Bevan and Fellner here.

What does it take to frighten fantasy and horror meister Peter Jackson? A ghost.

He's still talking about a ghost sighting he had in a New Zealand apartment 20 years ago, it was so terrifying.

But that isn't how the filmmaker, best known for the epic "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, wants people to experience his new film, "The Lovely Bones."

He's hoping "The Lovely Bones," the film adaptation of Alice Sebold's 2002 bestseller about a murdered 14-year-old girl, will leave people feeling uplifted rather than haunted.

The movie is told from the perspective of Susie Salmon, played by "Atonement's" Saoirse Ronan, who watches her family cope with her brutal death after she is killed.

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Melissa Buttigieg, 23, saw "Twilight" 15 times in the theater. Hassina Ford, 19, watched it on the big screen 10 times, and Aimee Murphy, 22, watches the DVD every day.

They were among the throng of overwhelmingly female fans who gathered on a recent evening in London with the aim of catching a glimpse of the cast of "New Moon," the second film based on the the best-selling "Twilight" book series by Stephenie Meyer.

The crowd - representing factions of both Team Edward and Team Jacob, referring to the two male characters at the center of the vampire romance saga - shrieked and screamed as the teenage heart throbs walked down the red carpet at the event for UK fans.

"Twilighters," as fans of the franchise are known, can undoubtedly match fanboys for fervor. But can they redefine what makes a blockbuster in Hollywood?

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One movie, more than any other, has planted its flag in the sand as the movie industry gears up for the awards season.

"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire," has emerged as this year's breakout indie hit to beat.

Critically-acclaimed on the international festival circuit, it is the only film to win the audience award at both Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival - the latter a steadily reliable predictor of Oscar.

Last weekend it broke indie film records at the domestic box office.

"Precious" tells the tale of an obese, illiterate teenager - played by 24-year-old newcomer Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe - struggling to survive in 1980s Harlem.

It boasts Oprah Winfrey among its producers and features the curious distinction of usually-glam pop diva Mariah Carey as a pale-faced and plain social worker.

And that's where "Precious" plays another classic awards card - Carey dressing down.

Read more of this article on CNN's The Screening Room here.

It may seem stranger than fiction, but George Clooney's latest film, paranormal comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats," was inspired by real events.

"It's funny, there are things that are made up in this screenplay, but the wackiest things are actually the real ones," said Clooney

Like starring alongside a goat.

Clooney's role as Lyn Cassady, an operative of the New Earth Army, required him to play opposite the farmyard animal to demonstrate the army's psychic warfare strategies, among them the ability to kill goats by staring at them.

Known for his dry sense of humor, the actor said of his four-legged co-star: "This goat was a particularly nice goat. The goat was a great actor."

Read more of this article on CNN's The Screening Room here.

There has been a resurgence of interest in horror recently, with zombies and vampires in particular colonizing our cinema screens in ever greater numbers.

As if to feed our renewed appetite, some of the genre's living legends are once again back in the director's chair delivering terror at 24 frames per second.

Check out our interactive featuring Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, George Romero and John Landis, including exclusive video clips of these titans of terror talking about the genre.

Tanedra Howard in a spot of bother in the latest installment of the ultra-violent Saw franchise. IMAGE FROM LIONSGATE.

Are audiences finally getting tired of ultra-violent splatter flicks, typified by the "Saw" franchise?

First screened as a low-budget indie horror at Sundance Film Festival in 2004, "Saw" went on to become a global phenomenon. Are you sick of splatter? Is old-fashioned suspense making a comeback? Tell us below

"Saw VI" is the latest installment in the multi-million dollar franchise featuring modern horror icon the "Jigsaw Killer." It hit cinemas over the weekend hoping to pull in dollars from horror-hungry Halloween audiences.

And it probably would have done pretty well if it wasn't for another, rather newer, horror phenomenon: "Paranormal Activity."

The microbudget flick which is becoming a box office wonder pipped "Saw VI" to the top spot at the U.S. box office this weekend.

Does this mean audiences are tiring of the splatter horror genre revitalized by Eli Roth in 2005's "Hostel," and sometimes known by its detractors as "torture porn?"

Or, is it just that "Paranormal Activity's" huge success surprised everyone? Made for somewhere in the region of $15,000, "Paranormal Activity's" rise to the top is already legend in Hollywood.

It's worth noting that the "Saw" series remains one of the most profitable franchises in horror history.

Since the first installment bled onto screens in 2004, the first five movies have delivered a combined box office take approaching $700m worldwide, according to boxofficemojo.com, with international takings accounting for around half this haul.

DVD sales and TV are likely to easily surpass this total again - and all for a quintet whose combined production budget clocked in at less than $100m, the price of a middling summer blockbuster.

So, despite the competition, it's unlikely that this is the dying breath of torture porn.

What is almost guaranteed in the wake of  "Paranormal Activity" is a wave lo-fi horrors trading on bumps in the night, hoping for similar success.

If Spike Jonze's upcoming live-action adaptation of much-loved kids book  "Where the Wild Things Are" comes even close to its promise, it should be something pretty special.

Spike Jonze has adapted beloved kids' book 'Where the Wild Things Are.'

Early stills from the film look sublime and it would seem that Jonze, who is no slouch in the cool stakes himself, recruited a who's who of the indie world to work on the project.

Former gangster-in-therapy James Gandolfini of  "The Sopranos" fame adds his trademark growl to the voice of Carol,  one of the lumbering monsters,  alongside Forest Whitaker and a smattering of indie royalty  - Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo and Lauren Ambrose.

San Francisco-based Pulitzer-nominated writer Dave Eggers, best-known for his innovative memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,"  worked with Jonze to adapt the script from Maurice Sendak's beloved childhood tale. It tells the story of  a boy sent to bed without his supper who creates an imaginary world inhabited by ferocious monsters who crown him their leader.

The film's soundtrack comes courtesy of long-time Coen Brothers collaborator Carter Burwell alongside NY art rocker Karen O of band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and features songs by Canadian band Arcade Fire.

The film's child star, Max Records, looks like he could really steal the show, though. He plays disobedient little Max and with his sulky face framed by the hood of his dirty-white monster suit, he looks looks not unlike a pre-pubescent Edward Furlong.

From the trailer, it looks like Jonze has made a magical film that captures the other-worldly aspect of childhood. Watch Max running around with the sun glinting through trees to the pound of "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire and just try not feeling nostalgic for a lost time in the past.

He's not the only one mining our collective nostalgia for kid's books: "The Royal Tennenbaums" director Wes Anderson has turned his eagle eye from the nuances of dysfunctional family life to an adaptation of Roald Dahl's "The Fantastic Mr Fox." He is filming it using stop-motion animation, a technique he first experimented with in underwater "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."

George Clooney is voicing the heroic Mr Fox, who is persecuted by three dimwitted poultry farmers, but prevails in the end.  Anderson favorites Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman are voicing too. A trailer hasn't been released yet, but here are some images.

Then, of course, there is Tim Burton's disturbingly psychedelic take on "Alice in Wonderland," with (who else) Johnny Depp made up to the nines as The Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham-Carter as the homicidal Red Queen. Here are some images.

But there must be other children's books that need a makeover for the big-screen. How about "Heidi" adapted by Sofia Coppola - or maybe "The Jungle Book" by Guillermo del Toro? Let us know your thoughts below...