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THE NORTHMAN jarin blaschke
April 19, 2022
The Northman DP Jarin Blaschke explains how the Slav village raid sequence was achieved in a series of "oners" or…
jackass forever jeff tremaine
February 1, 2022
Jeff Tremaine explains how Jackass Forever pays homage to the original MTV series by bringing back — and scaling up…
Adrien Brody Clean still
January 27, 2022
Adrien Brody shares how life experience inspired his new movie Clean, in which he stars as a garbage man-turned-vigilante hero.
Joel Coen and Frances McDormand on set of The Tragedy of Macbeth Stefan Dechant
January 12, 2022
Joel Coen and production designer Stefan Dechant were influenced by German Expressionism for their Shakespeare adaptation, The Tragedy of Macbeth.
May 1, 2018
Star Asa Butterfield spent three weeks learning to play bass to lend a lived-in sonic authenticity to director Peter Livolsi's…
April 18, 2018
When Cordula Kablitz-Post couldn't shoot her dream locations, she shot her actors against historical postcards, which created a heightened, poetic…
April 12, 2018
People say cliché things about trusting your crew, but shooting Scorched Earth in a war zone made it a matter…
March 15, 2018
Writer-director/actor/producer Michele Remsen just premiered her debut feature Toss It at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Here she breaks…
January 30, 2018
Mark Schimmel, director of the upcoming short "Kill the Light," diagrams his process for successfully shooting a 22-minute film in…
December 12, 2017
When you work on a sacred text, loved around the world like Norman Lewis’s "Naples '44", the risk of failure…
November 14, 2017
First-time writer-director and star Noël Wells explains how she embraced the "thrill of the unknown" to shoot her low-budget indie…
September 13, 2017
We were out in the high desert of the Antelope Valley on our second day of filming the climactic shootout…
August 31, 2017
From conception, my feature Against the Night, about a group of friends who sneak into an abandoned prison, was always…
August 16, 2017
Moko Jumbie is the Gothic Caribbean love story of Asha, a young girl searching for her roots in Trinidad, and…
August 2, 2017
For several years, our doc On a Knife Edge had a great beginning and a wonderful middle but no end…
June 5, 2017
When shooting One Less God, Lliam Worthington found that one of his actors was sounding more like his dialogue coach…
April 28, 2017
Director Justin Barber breaks down how he rigged anti-gravity sets and pulled off other in-camera tricks to shoot Phoenix Forgotten's…
March 9, 2017
Moving to many locations mid-shoot is not something you want to do every other day of your schedule, says the…
February 24, 2017
"Self-producing your first feature will be an extremely painful experience. Do not expect it to be fun, because it’s not,"…
February 24, 2017
Cut to the Chase is a "Southern noir" feature, the fourth from writer-director-star Blayne Weaver—whose ex-con character sometimes hits first,…
February 24, 2017
This moviemaker took directing, producing and acting duties to make his acclaimed short. Then he got stabbed on set. Here's…
October 13, 2016
Guy Kent is the star and producer of Autumn Lights, the first independent American-Icelandic co-production in history to be shot…
October 6, 2016
True to the horrific reality faced by real-life migrants, the drop house in our film plays as the only location…
September 13, 2016
Our movie Operation Avalanche is set in an alternate 1967, with two CIA agent protagonists who have to fake the…