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"Every piece of footage is important to watch and to catalog for when it comes time to make your selects,…
Bitch centers on suburban housewife Jill, whose day to day is entirely overwhelmed with looking after her emotionally absent husband…
With enough time and perspective, bad notes can make for great stories. Here are the best worst notes received by…
Ben Younger’s Bleed For This was executive-produced by none other than Martin Scorsese. “Martin Scorsese is my rabbi,” Younger laughs.
If I had to name the single most significant factor as to why a screenplay does or doesn’t get picked…
A proof-of-concept is a scene from your feature film script, shot and fashioned into a short, to provide an example…
The finish line is in sight, but the race is far from over. Experienced filmmakers share tips on how to…
Stuck on making your feature? Whiplash director Damien Chazelle explains why you should make it a short first.
Acclaimed classical pianist, Seymour Bernstein, is the subject of Ethan Hawke’s documentary directing debut, Seymour: An Introduction.
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,…
Welcome to "Cinema Law," MovieMaker's blog where you ask questions of our legal experts and they provide answers. Using a…
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…
In the second dispatch of his Sundance 2014 diary, MovieMaker correspondent Jeff Meyers talks Locke, international distribution strategy and a…
MovieMaker correspondent Jeff Meyers brings us a behind-the-scenes look at independent film's finest, the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.