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What’s New in Distribution
Women Make Movies’ Paradise Lost. Finding the right distributor for your first feature is just as...
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Death, Taxes and Tom Hanks
What does it take to get a movie made in Hollywood? The optimistic answer would be...
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Soft Money in Hard Times
Much to the chagrin of moviemakers, the financing available for independent films has been drying up...
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20 Best Festival “Investments”
The Phoenix Film Festival’s “Camerahead” mascot gives audiences a pretty good idea of what matters most...
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Indie Sizzle vs. Hollywood Fizzle
The Hulk scared up an audience dropout of 70 percent between its opening and second weekends....
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Legends of Sundance
Kramer: Where I am now and where I was before the festival is light years apart....
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Where Are They Now?
TOP TO BOTTOM: Hugh Grant, Chow Yun-Fat, Julia Stiles, Ben Stiller, Terry Zwigoff Astronomers tell us...
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10 Best Cities to be a Moviemaker
Austin boasts various location types, like Bat Bridge; and is also a great place to shoot...
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Biograph’s Biography
1895 W.K.L. Dickson, an associate of Thomas Edison, forms the American Mutoscope Company. 1899 American Mutoscope Company...
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When Opportunity Knocks
Garland: Perfect as Dorothy—but producers wanted Shirley Temple. Couldn’t get Julia Roberts for your film? Renée...
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Marathon Moviemaking
DigiFest Southwest winners Ben Lowney and J. Fegan in BABOF; and the cast of Clown Camp....
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Nobody’s Cooler
Bello, Alec Baldwin and Macy get lucky in Wayne Kramer’s directorial debut, The Cooler. When Frank...
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Rulers of the Rental House
With a great script, a competent director can often turn a mediocre story into a brilliant,...
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Illeana Douglas’ Woolworth Touch
Illeana Douglas may be blessed with one of the film industry’s most distinctive faces, but “...
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Director.com
Considering the ever-evolving relationship between the Internet and other aspects of pop culture, the value of the Web for film lovers...
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The Editorial Challenge
The question of where a film is “written”—in the script, on the set or in the...
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The Mythology of Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella discusses a shot with cinematographer John Seale on Cold Mountain. Anthony Minghella met with...
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Film Technique for the Digital Age
Marcus van Bavel If you’re like most moviemakers, you don’t often stop to consider how fortunate...
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Scare Tactics
Sarah Ingerson stars as Claire, in J.T. Petty’s Soft for Digging. Independent horror moviemakers are a...
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Horror Stories
For decades the horror genre has helped would-be cinematic masters get their start in the movie...
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The Adventures of Guy Pearce
I first interviewed Guy Pearce, the British-born, Australian-bred actor, seven years ago in connection with his...
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Improvising the Perfect Script
Moviemakers Leigh, Jaglom, Duvall and Loach are latest in a long line of “naturalistic” directors or...
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Robert Rodriguez’s New Toy
They” is a four-letter word for Robert Rodriguez, writer-director of the groundbreaking indie film El Mariachi....
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