All posts by Phillip Williams
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The Laws of Nature, the Study of Violence: Taylor Sheridan Takes Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen to Wind River
“There’s an interesting thing about this business,” says Taylor Sheridan. “It tells you what you’re supposed to be doing. A lot of... -
Reclaiming Rewards From Rip-Offs: How to Live with Piracy
As soon as a moviemaker fortunate enough to score a release is finished with the high fives, one of the first things he... -
The Fire Inside: Jason Segel Resurrects The Muppets
Not long ago, MovieMaker Magazine caught up with Jason Segel to ask him about his role in the resurrection of The Muppets franchise. It... -
Tarsem Singh Sees the Future
Director Tarsem Singh is on a roll. With his international box office triumph Immortals still collecting receipts, and his newest picture, Mirror... -
Culture and Transformation Come to the Rainforest with the Amazonas Film Festival
The Amazonas Film Festival, which took place from November 3-9, completed its eighth annual run with a rich cycle of features from... -
Drawing from the Classics: Tarsem Singh’s Immortals
Tarsem Singh is on a roll. With his new film Immortals—in which Theseus (Henry Cavill) is a mortal man chosen by Zeus... -
Ellen Page’s Dream Job
Rising star Ellen Page—the heart and soul of Jason Reitman’s 2007 indie hit Juno—is turning up on Hollywood marquees more and more... -
Of Micmacs and Moviemaking
French moviemaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest film, Micmacs, gets its stateside release this spring. For the famed director of Delicatessen (1991), The City... -
James Cameron Mixes It Up With Avatar
Most moviemakers will tell you that story trumps technology on the best movie sets. It is nonetheless fair to say that advances... -
New Moon Rising
Something striking has occurred in the career of Chris Weitz. Once the self-described “techie” half of a low-key directing duo with brother...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6