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After the excitement of John Carter‘s epic box office flop, things got more or less back to normal over the
Everybody always wants everything to be perfect. You ever notice that? The perfect budget, the perfect cast, the perfect shooting
Regular readers of MovieMaker will know that New Orleans was named the number one city to make movies in our
Disney’s John Carter failed to live up to expectations over its opening weekend. It earned only $30.6 million (its budget, at
“Opportunity knocks…” was the intriguing subject line sitting in our Gmail nestled between the latest Groupon offer and reminder from
With today’s announcement of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Spotlight, Cinemania and Special Screenings lineups, cinephiles now have 44 more films
We already know this year’s Tribeca Film Festival will be opening with Nicholas Stoller’s rom-com The Five-Year Engagement, and today
Wow. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax sure let everyone know who’s boss. The animated family film surpassed all expectations to earn
Here, writer/director Taika Waititi (“The Flight of the Conchords,” Eagle vs Shark) writes about the making of Boy. The highest-grossing
When I moved to Los Angeles in 2007, I didn’t know I wanted to be a director. I thought I
As the screenwriters behind both The Lorax and 2008’s Horton Hears a Who!, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio have become
Awards season is over for another year. Last night’s Oscars saw the big award go to—surprise, surprise—The Artist, which picked
Cinequest isn’t your average film festival. While it screens films like all the rest, its devotion to spreading the world
With Valentine’s Day now officially behind us, rom-com The Vow (weekend gross $23.6 million, total gross $85.5 million), the winner
The Oscar-nominated short film Raju is something of an enigma. A German student film shot, not in a crew member’s
As expected, The Artist was the big winner at last night’s Orange British Academy Film Awards—or, as they’re better known,
Four of the top five spots at last weekend’s box office went to new releases, all of which broke the
With the Oscar-nominated documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, co-directors Marshall Curry and Sam
A few short years ago, the idea of a comedian running for political office would strike most people as A)
Something about procedural cop dramas makes them inherently powerful, and director Oren Moverman’s Rampart is no exception.
It’s not time for the Oscars yet, but the Annies have already rolled into town. Last Saturday saw the Annie
Josh Gibson went to the Slamdance Film Festival with his short film Kudzu Vine… and came back a Panasonic AG-AF100,…
New releases Chronicle and The Woman in Black each took in a higher-than-expected haul over Super Bowl weekend, though it
Let’s not beat around the bush: Directing a movie with ten major characters sounds pretty tough. Directing a movie with