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Cate Blanchett complains while accepting a Critic's Choice Award; Damien Chazelle is glad some people don't like Babylon; our favorite Netflix…
A new Knock at the Cabin trailer; Paul Schrader throws shade at Babylon and Damien Chazelle; A story about the…
Paul Schrader fired shots at Damien Chazelle's Babylon earlier this week, criticizing the film's historical accuracy: "I was scratching my…
To mark the 25th anniversary of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, now underway, SCAD president and founder Paula Wallace reflects on…
Babylon trailer from director Damien Chazelle, set in the 1920s, features Margot Robbie snorting cocaine, Brad Pitt tap dancing, and…
"Every piece of footage is important to watch and to catalog for when it comes time to make your selects,…
Writing the next big musical will seem like a less daunting task after you steal these tips for conceiving, writing, and…
Bitch centers on suburban housewife Jill, whose day to day is entirely overwhelmed with looking after her emotionally absent husband…
A producer with a 20+ year career breaks down why becoming a member of the Producers Guild of America was…
Producer-turned-director Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers.
With enough time and perspective, bad notes can make for great stories. Here are the best worst notes received by…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Plot and character-related exposition in
Revisit the top 10 articles on moviemaker.com for the month of February 2017, from Ice Cube to cat documentaries to…
The actors recently received their second nominations together for their work in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed box-office hit La La Land.
Winter weather, the holidays, the end of 2016... All pretty damn cool. So was December 2016 on Moviemaker.com, the best…
La La Land opens with a show-stopping number in which the stars don’t even participate. This takes place—where else—amidst a…
Telluride Film Fest announced their lineup the morning before kicking off the event. Now those who decided to go months…
A proof-of-concept is a scene from your feature film script, shot and fashioned into a short, to provide an example…
Stuck on making your feature? Whiplash director Damien Chazelle explains why you should make it a short first.
It's mid-January, 2015 - a time for reflecting on the Best of 2014. And here, at MovieMaker, the focus is…
Does second album syndrome apply to moviemaking, too? Absolutely. It's one thing to cobble together favors and enthusiasm for your…
Our irregular blog Feast for the Eyes charts the gastronomic iconography of the screen, pondering the depths of narrative, character,…
Born and raised in Littleton, CO, 26-year-old Melissa Benoist is best known for her role as Marley-Rose on the song-and-dance…
You know J.K. Simmons. Even if you don’t know the name, you probably know the face, and you definitely know…