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Joshua Zeman Investigates the Truth Behind Cropsey
Imagine the basic premise of The Blair Witch Project—young moviemakers on a quest to unravel a bogeyman of their past—but then imagine that it all really happened.
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Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are Despicable
Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are no strangers to kids' movies. The screenwriters have collaborated on numerous whimsical films, such as 2002's The Santa Clause 2 and the 2008 adaptation of Doctor Seuss' Horton Hears a Who.
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Duplass vs. Goliath
Indie brothers go Hollywood for Cyrus, but will they stay there?
"Holy shitballs.” That’s the general feeling we had when we were greenlit for our first studio movie, Cyrus.
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25 Must-Have Apps for Moviemakers
MM's pick of 25 essential apps for moviemakers who want to further their films “on the go.”
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My Golden Rules: The Twilight Saga's Melissa Rosenberg
The dos and don'ts of screewriting
The Twilight Saga's resident writer, Melissa Rosenberg, dishes on her personal dos and don'ts of screenwriting.
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Richard Loncraine vs. Bill and Hillary
He has been making movies for almost 40 years, but even Emmy-winning director Richard Loncraine knows that four weeks of prep for a movie about four of the world's most prominent political figures is not without its challenges. The Special Relationship, now playing on HBO, tells of the relationship between Tony and and Cherie Blair and Bill and Hillary Clinton in the mid- to late 1990s, a time when shared ideologies eventually gave way to political scandals.
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Of Micmacs and Moviemaking
Jean-Pierre Jeunet enjoys the simple pleasures of cinema
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the French auteur behind Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Amélie and now Micmacs, enjoys the simple pleasures of cinema.
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10 Podcasts Worth a Listen
Take your moviemaking to the next level in 90 minutes or less
There are any number of things you can do to make your work commute more interesting. You could stare blankly at the person sitting across from you on the train. You could listen to your iPod (probably the same playlist over and over again). You could pay attention to the road (if you drive, definitely choose this option). Or you could actually further your film career by listening to a movie-centric podcast.
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Daddy Longlegs Comes to NYC
In Ben and Joshua Safdie's new movie, Daddy Longlegs, Ronald Bronstein plays Lenny, a father whose custody agreement allows him to see his two children for only two weeks out of the year. During this short period he tries to take care of them, but it's perfectly clear from the bad decisions he makes that he has yet to grow up himself.
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The Screenwriter’s Toolbox is About to be Opened
Want to write the next great script? More than that, do you want it to actually get made? No matter how wonderful your script is, if you can't articulate the reasons for its absolute perfection to other moviemakers, it'll just sit in your desk drawer and never see the light of day.
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Nightmare at the Box Office
Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street took the top spot at the box office this weekend, earning $32.2 million in its first weekend of release.
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Allen Wolf Directs Debut In His Sleep
It was day one for the production of In My Sleep and I couldn’t find the set. This was the first day of my first feature film as a first-time director-writer-producer. A lot of firsts. And now my first time getting lost to the set. Great.
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Mixed Reviews: Clint: A Retrospective
“I’m just a guy who makes movies.” The first sentence in Clint: A Retrospective (Sterling, 288 pages, $35) perfectly sums up the moviemaking powerhouse that is Clint Eastwood, and is actually a quote from Eastwood himself.
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Zoe Lister-Jones Breaks Out with Breaking Upwards
" I feel like I’ve led the intense life of a celebrity without making the money or getting any free shit. I’m like Lindsay Lohan minus the swag.” Not quite the humbled perspective you’d expect from an actress who has worked with the likes of Angelina Jolie, Ryan Gosling, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in 2009 alone. But with Zoe Lister-Jones, this is precisely what you get.
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Paul Schrader Donates Movie Memories to UT Austin
Writer-drector Paul Schrader has immortalized materials from some of his most influential films by donating more than 300 boxes of scripts, correspondence, videos, audio tapes and photographs to the Harry Ransom Center, a research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Can Scriptapalooza Launch Your Career?
Scriptapalooza is not all about prize money (though there is that; the first place winner gets $10,000). Three recent Scriptapalooza top-placers have taken the time to answer a few of MovieMaker’s questions about their scripts, Scriptapalooza and how the competition has helped them get their screenwriting careers off the ground.
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WGA East Goes Digital
On February 24, 2010, more than 200 members from the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE)—along with various non-member writers—filed into the Paley Center for Media in midtown Manhattan for the inaugural “Economics of Digital Media” seminar.
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MovieMaker at the 2010 Spirit Awards
The 2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards might have been held at L.A. Live, Los Angeles’ newest plaza of self-serving commercialism. It might have featured Ben Stiller, the actor who traded in his early career as an indie director for box office hits like Meet the Parents and Night of the Museum, as its honorary chair. And it might have continued the recent trend of presenting a majority of the night’s awards to the higher-end independent films.
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Oscar Loves The Hurt Locker
Weeks of debate over "Will James Cameron be the King of the World once again?" or "Will the ex-Mrs. Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, reign supreme?" were quieted last night as Bigelow's The Hurt Locker won six of its nine Academy Award nominations, including those for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, Sound and Sound Editing. The award makes Bigelow the first woman to receive an Oscar for Best Director.
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Vpype Hosts First Facebook Screenplay Pitch Competition
Vpype, a social networking company that allows Facebook users to communicate in real time via video, has announced the Hollywood Vpype Pitch Contest. The contest, which runs from February 23 to April 15, gives Facebook users the chance to create a five-minute screenplay pitch to be posted on Facebook and judged by industry professionals.
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Circalit Creates a Social Network for Scribes
Labeled as the first-ever social networking Website just for screenwriters, Circalit allows scribes of any experience level to upload their screenplays and showcase their work to producers, agents and directors. MM recently caught up with CEO and founder Raoul Tawadey to discuss this great opportunity for screenwriters.
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Austin Film Festival Celebrates Four Alumni Oscar Nominations
You know that the Austin Film Festival is one of the world's premier screenwriting-focused events. But did you know just how great a track record they have? Four of this year's screenwriting Oscar nominations belong to AFF alumni—The Messenger for Best Original Screenplay and An Education, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire and Up in the Air for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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James Schamus to be Honored at San Francisco International Film Festival
Oscar-nominated screenwriter-producer-film executive James Schamus has a new award to place on his mantle: The Kanbar Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.
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The Hurt Locker Tops 2010 Writers Guild Awards
Score another point for The Hurt Locker as the race toward Oscar Sunday continues.
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Edward Albee to be Honored by WGA, East
Edward Albee, the legendary playwright who has written more than 30 plays, among them Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is to receive the Writers Guild of America, East’s (WGAE) Evelyn F. Burkey Award.
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Adam Green Reaches New Heights With Frozen
Much of Frozen's horror is of the "this could happen to you" variety. Fresh off its Sundance premiere and in theaters now, the film's busy writer-director, Adam Green, took a few minutes to speak with MM about Frozen's origins and the challenges of shooting a survival film in real locations.
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Script to Screen
Four writer-directors share the lessons they've learned
Four successful and diverse writer-directors share the lesson-filled experiences of their most recent films.
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Alessandro Camon Goes Looking for The Messenger
Finding the invisible story in the war on terror
I'm standing around on the set of The Messenger, drinking cold coffee, waiting for the next set-up with no particular thing to do. As the co-writer of the film (our brilliant director, Oren Moverman, wrote the film with me), I'm welcome here, but I no longer really have a job.
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Ti West Builds The House of the Devil
It sometimes seems like a once-a-year event that a new horror movie starts building buzz as a total throwback to the truly great (and actually scary) thrillers of the 1970s and '80s. "No, but this one's different," everyone says and, in the end, you wind up disappointed. Ti West's The House of the Devil is the latest such film. But—like Eli Roth's Cabin Fever before it—this one is different.
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Christopher Kyle Brings The Seven Sins to the Silver Screen
Christopher Kyle—screenwriter of Alexander and K-19 The Widowmaker—talks to MovieMaker about his latest project, The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending, and why comparing a novel to its cinematic adaptation is like saying steak is better than bicycles.
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Peter Jackson Gives Five Moviemakers Their Big Break
After six weeks of much deliberation and voting, the finalists have been chosen for Peter Jackson’s “Your Big Break” contest.
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Shoot in Philadelphia, Win $10,000?
The Greater Philadelphia Film Office has come up with an innovative way to boost their city's relevance when it comes to moviemaking (although they're already doing pretty well in that department, placing ninth place in our latest list of Best Moviemaking Cities).
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PGA and SAG Announce Winners
The Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild both handed out their 2010 awards over the weekend. Who won, you ask? We've got the results.
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Chris Sparling Gets Buried At Sundance
Chris Sparling Gets Buried At Sundance
Imagine waking up buried in the desert, with no idea how you got there and armed with only a candle, knife and cell phone. This is exactly the deadly predicament dreamed up by screenwriter Chris Sparling's twisted mind a little more than one year ago—and it got him into Sundance.
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BAFTA Nominees Announced
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced its nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced on February 21st.
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