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Lena Dunham, Molly Ringwald Praise Judy Blume in Trailer for Judy Blume Forever Doc (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neWsO1Rk_q0 Girls creator Lena Dunham and The Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald are among several public figures who come out…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Chris Rock Says No; Rian Johnson Stands By The Last Jedi; Rings of Power Cheat Sheet

Chris Rock said in a recent standup routine that he turned down an offer from the Academy to host the…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Don’t Make Me Go Director Hannah Marks Tells Us How to Make New Zealand Look Like Texas and California

Hannah Marks' new Amazon family drama Don't Make Me Go tells the story of a father-daughter road trip across the United…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

The Women Behind Amazon’s Birds of Paradise Revisit The Most Intense Dance Class of Their Lives

Sarah Adina Smith and Jonako Donley, the director-producer team behind Amazon Studios' newest young adult drama film Birds of Paradise, have…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Amazon’s LulaRich Directors on Untangling the Secrets of Leggings Empire LuLaRoe

Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst are untangling the true story behind leggings and multilevel marketing empire LuLaRoe in their…

3 years ago
  • The Rundown

Amazon Buys Bond, Rocky, and More; Dave Chappelle’s Doc; Seth Rogen’s Old Jokes

Amazon will soon own James Bond, Rocky, and the rest of MGM; Dave Chappelle will close the Tribeca Film Festival…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How Much of Amazon's Them Is Based on a True Story?

Them, the new Amazon Prime horror series about suburban racism, begins with some truthful background: "Between 1916 and 1970, roughly 6…

3 years ago
  • Inside MM - Distribution

A Sale Unto Oneself: About To Have Your First Market Experience? Here’s Why Self-Distribution Is the Way To Go

Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for millions after an all-night…

5 years ago
  • Other

Swimming With the Stream: Entertainment Lawyer Lisa Callif on Creating Content in the Digital Era

Content creators in the digital era have it pretty good. You can create content on a shoestring budget–you can literally…

6 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Making a Living by Mixing Media: How to Make the Leap From Directing Features to Directing Television

Imagine a world where you earn a steady, livable paycheck doing what you love—directing—and little else. That picture, sadly, doesn’t…

7 years ago
  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: Watch How I Love Dick DP Jim Frohna’s Framing Heightens Characters’ Emotional Conflicts (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Making the Case for Houston: Spotlight on This Texan Metropolis, With State Film Incentives on the Line

Commonly known as a business-heavy port city, Houston—surprisingly to some—is an ethnically diverse hub where a community of moviemakers, far…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Watch: Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins Talk Writing I Love Dick, Post-Production Tricks and More (Video)

The first season of I Love Dick has launched on Amazon Video, and the show's slyly funny take on gender and sexuality…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Cheap Tricks: An Easy-To-Follow Guide To Making a Feature Film For $1,000 From Someone Who Did It

You're aching to make a movie. Not a trailer, not a sizzle reel, not even a short film—a full blown, honest-to-Betsy…

7 years ago
  • MM Guide 2017

The Case for Theatrical Distribution: Putting Your Movie Into Theaters Still Makes Business Sense. Here’s Why

A truth universally acknowledged: Everything is going digital, from the promotion of films to the way they are screened in…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Three Trembling Cities, From Scene to Screen: The Process of Bringing a Scene To Life

In director heaven, every scene in the screenplay is clear and concise, the storyboards are perfectly composed, the shot list…

8 years ago
  • MM Guide 2016

Maximum Release: Quick Advice on How to Improve Your Theatrical Impact

There is nothing to compare to the shared experience you find in a theater, screaming and laughing as a collective,…

8 years ago
  • Screenwriting

Genre Hacks: Roy Price on How to Write Screenplays for Amazon

Genre Hacks, a blog by Sean Hood, covers 21st-century screenwriting (that is, writing for anything with a screen), and the…

9 years ago
  • Festivals

What’s a Festival Worth? Improve Your Film Festival ROI

Plying the film festival circuit has become as much a part of the independent moviemaking process as crowdfunding, cinematography and…

11 years ago