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Movie News
Online Film Festivals Unite Moviemakers and Movie Lovers Separated by Covid-19
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival was one of the countless public gatherings that changed...
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Movie News
Movie News: Tiger King Updates; John Krasinski Brings Good News; Most-Streamed Movies
In Movie News today: Tiger King updates; John Krasinski delivers Some Good News; who’s winning at the home...
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Movie News
How Dolemite Is My Name Writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Went From Roommates to Masters of the Biopic (Podcast)
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were USC film students, waiting in line, when they struck up...
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Movie News
Movie News: Woody Allen’s Reviews; Mad Max Plans; Checks Coming
We’re keeping Today’s Movie News succinct: Emmys season is delayed; an update on movies in limbo,...
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Movie News
Movie News: Can Theaters Survive?; Internet Slows; Below-the-Line Help
In today’s Movie News: Can theaters survive? Theater owners are optimistic. Also: Short-term help for below-the-line...
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Movie News
The Joe Pesci Role That Links The Irishman and JFK
One of the most surreal moments in The Irishman comes when Joe Pesci’s character uses a...
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Movie News
4 Times Al Pacino and Robert De Niro Were Up for the Same Role
The Irishman unites Robert De Niro and Al Pacino for only the fourth time onscreen. But...
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Movie News
Movie News: Where to Get Help; Celebrities Unfiltered; Stephen King on Pandemics
Movie News today: There’s a $2 trillion stimulus deal; where you can get help; self-quarantine has...
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Movie News
5 Birds of Prey Unlikely Inspirations, From True Romance to Bridesmaids
Birds of Prey writer Christina Hodson says the girl-gang comic-book movie is a “cocktail shaker” of...
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Movie News
The Harley Quinn Cartoon Is #^$!% Delightful
Birds of Prey is available on demand today, and if it sends you down a Harley...
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Movie News
Just Mercy Is Very Accurate, Because It Had to Be
Just Mercy is available via Video on Demand today, so we’re re-sharing this interview with director...
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Movie News
Self-Quarantine Means Unfiltered Celebrities. It Isn’t Always a Hit
Madonna recorded a weird bathtub video. Vanessa Hudgens said coronavirus deaths were “like, inevitable.” Gal Gadot’s...
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Movie News
Movie News Roundup: A Birds of Prey Test; Doctor Seeks Hollywood Help; Take Our Poll
Today in Movie News: A doctor wants more celebrity videos, Edgar Wright has movie recommendations, Birds...
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Movie News
Woody Allen, Soon Yi-Previn and Dylan Farrow: A Complete History
Is Woody Allen guilty? In the eyes of the criminal justice system, no. Dylan Farrow and...
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Movie News
5 TV Dramas That Feel a Lot Less Dramatic Now
Sorry, “TV dramas,” but the events of the last few weeks have kind of recalibrated our...
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Interviews
How Sword of Trust Writer-Director Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron Gained Each Other’s Trust
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron were ready to make...
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Directing
Lost Transmissions Director Katharine O’Brien on the Film’s Real Inspiration
Simon Pegg and Juno Temple star in Lost Transmissions, written by Katharine O’Brien, who is also...
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Acting
Mads Mikkelsen: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
From Death Stranding to Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate),...
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Movie News
Is The Irishman’s Opening Scene a Goodfellas Callback?
The Irishman opens with a scene that feels like a darkly comic twist on the most...
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Cinema Law
Do You Need Life Rights or Adaptation Rights to Write a Fact-Based Screenplay?
Since we’re all inside working on screenplays (right?), we’re re-sharing this 2015 MovieMaker posts on one...
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Directing
The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Joe Talbot Injects His Changing Home City’s History Into His Feature Debut
Thora Birch shows up for a second at the end of The Last Black Man in...
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Interviews
Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always: From a Backyard Wedding to International Acclaim
Sidney Flanigan’s road to starring in Never Rarely Sometimes Always, one of the most celebrated films of...
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Movie News
Movie News Roundup: Woody Allen Book Released; Happy Birthday, Movies; Magic Castle Secrets
It’s Movie News Roundup time: The Woody Allen book is out; Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested...
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Movie News
The Magic Castle Opens Its Doors to Share Never-Before-Told Stories in New Doc
There’s no such thing as magic. As Alexis Manya Spraic’s documentary M for Magic demonstrates, what appears to...
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Movie News
12 Inspiring Movies That Aren’t Annoying and Fake
We love inspiring movies. We love uplifting movies. We hate fake inspiring/uplifting movies. We’ll all be...
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First Draft
10 Screenplay Structures To Flesh Out Your Formless Story
Since we’re all spending more time indoors lately, its prime time to write that screenplay you’ve...
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Movie News
Goodfellas: How That Very Long Tracking Shot Went Comically Wrong
The three-minute Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and proves Henry Hill’s...
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Movie News
The Hunt Review: Cancellation Proves Its Biggest Point
It’s sad for everyone that The Hunt, a movie that desperately wants liberals and conservatives to...
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Interviews
Inside The Invisible Man’s Sneaky Disappearing Score
Benjamin Wallfisch says he started with total silence when he set out to compose the score...
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Movie News
Movie News Roundup: California Stays Home; Ben Affleck Arrives Early; Paul Scheer Brings Cheer
Welcome to our Movie News Roundup, where we’ll get to the point: Californians are told to...
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Interviews
Paul Scheer Knows Watching Movies and Talking Will Help Us Get Through This (Podcast)
Paul Scheer knows that watching movies and talking will help us get through this, and he’s...
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Directing
How Tuscaloosa Director Philip Harder Turned Minnesota Into 1970s Alabama
Tuscaloosa director Philip Harder explains in this essay how he shot Tuscaloosa, a drama set in...
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Movie News
Movie News: Cannes Delayed; Edgar Wright on Saving Cinema, Undramatic TV
Welcome to our Movie News Roundup. We’re truly grateful to you for reading us. Lots of...
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Movie News
Your Life Is on Pause. Time to Write That Screenplay
Aneesh Chaganty, director and co-writer of the acclaimed film Searching and the upcoming Run, is making...
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Movie News
Movie News Roundup: We Cannes Do It; Righteous Help Below-the-Line; A Note About Sourcing
Welcome to MovieMaker’s Movie News Roundup, where we see signs of hope: Cannes innovation is underway, The...
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Movie News
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Released From Hospital, Chet Hanks Says
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been released from an Australian hospital where they were isolated...
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Directing
Members Only: A Guide to Onscreen Peen with the Directors of The Final Member
The Final Member, a feature documentary by Canadian directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, is the...
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TESTING-3
Annual Lists
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2019
Film festivals require a strategy. It’s accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is...
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TESTING-3
Movie News
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker, 2020
For MovieMaker’s Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2020 list, we made a...
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Articles - Directing
The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time, From Scorsese to Kubrick
Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and...
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Annual Lists
The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe...
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Movie News
American Psycho: An Oral History, 20 Years After Its Divisive Debut
When director Mary Harron first sent Christian Bale the script for American Psycho, he didn’t know...
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Annual Lists
The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2019
Let’s talk about the coolest film festivals in the world. And if you think it’s easy...
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Annual Lists
MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2019, Presented by HorrorHound
It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker. As proof continues...
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Annual Lists
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018
Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50...
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Movie News
Here’s How Old Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci Are Supposed to Be in Key Scenes in The Irishman
The Irishman, the Oscar nominated film in which Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci...
