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10 Films to Seek Out at AFI Fest Presented By Audi 2019 (Sponsored Content)
Described by Justin Chang of Variety as a “vital destination for moviegoers,” AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi returns to Los Angeles from November 14–21,...
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How Ford v Ferrari Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael Filmed Christian Bale at Racing Speed
For our 2020 Complete Guide to Making Movies, Ford v Ferrari cinematographer Phedon Papamichael shared his techniques and reflected on the need for a human...
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Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the...
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Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director...
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MovieMaker’s 25 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World: Meet our 2020 Panelists
For our third straight year, we’ve recruited seasoned horror moviemakers and industry professionals working in genre films to compile MovieMaker‘s 25 Bloody Best Genre Fests...
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Robert De Niro Shoots Down an Internet Rumor About Scarface: ‘Not True’
Across the internet – from Wikipedia to an Associated Press story to Maxim to Complex– you can find unsourced assertions that Robert De Niro turned down the lead...
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Dolemite Is My Name Has 7 Essential Rules for Moviemakers
(Warning: The following contains spoilers about Eddie Murphy’s Rudy Ray Moore biopic Dolemite Is My Name.) Dolemite Is My Name isn’t just an Eddie Murphy...
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The Aeronauts Director Explains Who Inspired Felicity Jones’ Character
Was Felicity Jones’ The Aeronauts character, Amelia Wren, a real person? No, but The Aeronauts director Tom Harper explained Saturday that Wren was inspired by...
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Listen to Rudy Ray Moore’s Rejected Dolemite Is My Name Songs
If Rudy Ray Moore had been a more successful singer, the world might never have learned the name “Dolemite”—and Dolemite Is My Name, the Eddie...
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Martin Scorsese Tells Spike Lee How Donald Trump Influenced The Irishman’s Mobsters
Martin Scorsese told Spike Lee at a Directors Guild of America panel that President Donald Trump was a looming influence on Scorsese’s new film The...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...