The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is upon us! And to celebrate, we’ve got a fantastic interview with none other than Andy Serkis, Gollum himself, who has portrayed some of the most emotional, dramatic and powerful roles in the last decade – while hardly ever showing his face onscreen. Serkis has been delving more and [...]
Academy Award nominee Lucy Walker’s latest documentary, The Crash Reel, tells the story of Kevin Pearce, the Vermont snowboarder poised on the cusp of Olympic glory until a horrifying accident left him with a traumatic brain injury. Walker talks to us about how she captured both gloriously big and affectingly small moments, and making “strange, [...]
In honor of this weekend’s release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, part of the franchise that has arguably done more to make motion capture a household term than any other, we’re looking into how motion and performance capture technology could be less out of reach than you’d think for a non-blockbuster. This article [...]
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading up to the Top 25 General Festival winners on Friday, 11/15! Today we are announcing our final category – the Top 25 Coolest General Festivals of 2013. For the full article and list [...]
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading up to the Top 25 General Festival winners on Friday, 11/15! Today it’s our fifth pair – Experimental/Underground and Outside the Box (formerly known as Other). For the full article and list of [...]
This week we’re announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World results, voted by YOU, two categories per day – leading up to the Top 25 General Festival winners on Friday, 11/15! Today it’s our fourth pair – LGBT Film Festivals and Ethnic/National Film Festivals. For the full article and list of results, pick [...]
Fact or fiction? For this week’s DIY Monday MovieMaker is exploring how to limit your liability when adapting a true story for film, which as history tells us can be a long and arduous process. This article appears in the Fall 2013 issue of MovieMaker, on stands now. Adapting a true story for film can be [...]
This article by Vince Lynch, founder of online music community Synkio, appeared in our 2013 Complete Guide to Making Movies special issue earlier this year. In monastic life, silence is golden. In the film world, silence is golden, too—though its value has a converse relationship to money. Licensing music for a scene can cost a [...]
Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum potential? Two weeks ago, Sheri Candler taught us how to ramp up the impact of your film and your brand on Facebook and YouTube. Today she follows up with the other biggies, Twitter, Pinterest and [...]
