I crunched 25 years of trade press coverage, ticket sales across 36 countries and Netflix's global charts to work out what a German breakout hit would need, and why it would lift the whole industry.

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Once you notice that the names at the top of a movie poster rarely match the faces beneath, you start to wonder why it ...