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George Romero scared and enlightened audiences for five decades with his unique brand of socially-conscious fright films.
Death Stranding star Mads Mikkelsen shares 10 ways to command your audience and your career by thinking and acting radically.
Screenplay structure is actually pretty easy... if you know what structures you can play with. Here are 10 screenplay structures that can…
How Hereditary and Midsommar writer-director Ari Aster tells Moviemaker how he and his crew built miniature sets to deliver maximum…
You asked, we answer: Here are our budget-conscious breakdowns of the priceless legal questions we culled from the MM mailbag.
To make his missing person dramedy Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Richard Linklater directed Cate Blanchett in an icy role shot…
In Light of My Life, Casey Affleck stars as a man leading his daughter through a world where a pandemic…
Long Gone Wild director William Neal shares how Ric O'Barry and an undercover filming team narrowly escaped Chinese detainment at…
Once upon a time in Hollywood, stars would fade. But with his ninth film, an epic tale of changing times,…
A filmography of sameness is one of lameness, says Richard Dreyfuss. Here are his six steps to sidestepping a cookie-cutter career.
Natalia Leite's primer for making your mark—and a living—as an indie moviemaker continues with a map to finding feature funding.
Olivia Wilde is “Hollywood” in the best way possible: sparking its structural changes and banking on its freshest and funniest…
When it comes to tackling sensitive subject matter, "Context is everything," says No Alternative director William Dickerson.
For our fourth straight year, MovieMaker has partnered with Austin Film Festival to highlight the 25 Screenwriters to Watch in…
High Life, the Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche-starring coldly erotic space epic, illustrates a perfect marriage of Claire Denis' interests.
The bold doc moviemakers behind The Brink, Hail Satan? and Leaving Neverland share their secrets to courting, and recording, controversy.
The key to directing Marcello Fonte's Cannes award-winning lead performance in Dogman was shooting in sequence, says writer-director Matteo Garrone.
Anna Stypko, cinematographer of Madeleine Olnek's comedic period drama Wild Nights with Emily unpacks her lensing arsenal.
Iconoclast Bret Easton Ellis has nothing to hide as he shares screenwriting stories, cautionary career tales, and an unflinching belief…
Learn timeless lensing lessons from Benoît Debie, the prolific cinematographer of Climax, The Sisters Brothers, and The Beach Bum.
Here's everything you need to know about shooting on 16mm, from renting and buying film cameras, to stock tests, to…
Found a story worth telling? Before you do anything else, understand the true nature, scope, and value of the rights, then…
Birds of Passage DP David Gallego breaks down the camerawork and color palette of Colombia’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar…
From Lady Gaga to Lords of Chaos, Jonas Åkerlund shares how directing music videos can make you a better feature…