All posts tagged "Stephen King"
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The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of communities, withstood... -
Crowdfunder Pick: Stephen King Dollar Baby "The Doctor’s Case" Launches Campaign
In MovieMaker’s Complete Guide to Making Movies 2017 issue, Adam Coplan posits that when it comes to finding sources for script ideas,... -
Festival Wrap: Rich Metaphor Abounds at the Sixth Paris International Fantastic Film Festival
“Horror is like a serpent,” Dario Argento once said, “always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back.” At... -
First Draft: Crafting Supervillains by Pushing Your Antagonists Over the Edge
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. The importance of the... -
From Proof of Concept to Praise From King: How “Within the Woods” Gave The Evil Dead Creative and Financial Life
On October 15, 1981, director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and actor Bruce Campbell unveiled their passion project feature debut to an... -
First Draft: How to Cut the Fat from Your Screenplays
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “When your story is... -
First Draft: Five Reasons Short Stories are Easier to Adapt Than Novels
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a fortnightly series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, written... -
Restless Heart, Roving Camera: Cary Fukunaga Marries Electric Passion and Technique in Beasts of No Nation
Two years ago, only cinephiles knew who Cary Joji Fukunaga was. He was the Oakland-born writer-director of gritty, modestly budgeted films, one... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Kimberly Peirce
Kimberly Peirce dispenses the life lessons she’s picked up on her journey from her smash hit debut, Boys Don’t Cry, to this... -
Halloween Retro-SPOOK-tive: Navigating the Labyrinth of Room 237
Nobody ever forgets the Overlook Hotel and its wintry garden labyrinth, that elevator slowly gushing rivers of blood, the crayon-scrawled “REDRUM,” or...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6