All posts tagged "Jake Gyllenhaal"
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Small Cities and Towns
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during a recent... -
No Guts, No Story: Find Your Screenplay’s Soul By Trusting Your Instincts and Your Allies
I’ve wanted to make films for a long time, but my problem was always the ability to write something. I’d written down... -
Kindling Kinship: To Write an Adaptation, Build Bonds Between Your Creative Partners and Your Source Material
The process of adaptation is always different depending on what source material you’re working with, but my co-writer Thomas Bidegain and I... -
Finding the Human: Dan Gilroy Talks Script Formatting and Writing Roman J. Israel, Esq. on Spec for Denzel Washington
Dan Gilroy’s newest movie, Roman J. Israel, Esq. stars Denzel Washington as a legal savant—a civil rights attorney who’s been toiling in... -
ICYMI: The Best of November 2016 on Moviemaker.com
Break out of that Thanksgiving food coma and join us as we wrap up November 2016 on Moviemaker.com with our monthly best-of... -
“Americana With a Hint of Jaundice”: DP Seamus McGarvey Talks Style, Mood of Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford, the director, writer and producer of Nocturnal Animals, turned up at a Bafta screening last night with stars Michael Shannon,... -
Appetite for Deconstruction: Jean-Marc Vallée and Jake Gyllenhaal Talk Demolition
Jean-Marc Vallée can’t slow down. The Montreal-born director’s feverish pace has resulted in three features in just three years: Dallas Buyers Club... -
Kings of the Underworld: Denis Villeneuve, Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt on Sicario
“Directing is more the art of listening than of being a dictator,” says Denis Villeneuve, articulating a philosophy that has generated an... -
MovieMaker’s Fall 2014 Issue: Now On Stands!
MovieMaker Magazine’s 111th issue, Fall 2014, hits newsstands around the U.S. and Canada today. The issue is also available for digital download... -
Richard Kelly’s Second Chance: The Director Reflects on How Donnie Darko Became a Cult Hit
Movies that barely net a half million at the box office are generally written off as duds in Hollywood. But Donnie Darko,...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...1Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...