Since coming on to the horror film scene fifteen years ago with “Cabin Fever,” filmmaker Eli Roth made a name for himself in the genre with the “Hostel” franchise. An occasional actor, he got a chance to shine last year as the infamous “The Bear Jew” in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”
Roth sat down with Reuters [...]

YouTube’s “Life in a Day” project has received 80,000 submissions from 197 countries in 45 different languages.
Ridley Scott, who’s exec producing, said Thursday that he was “thrilled” over the results.
“The sheer number of uploads to the channel is astonishing and exceeds our expectations,” he said. “I’m as fascinated as anyone by what kind [...]

When it comes to delivering top-notch spy thrillers, Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce is a veteran of the genre.
His previous credits include Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger and The Quiet American. And now, with Salt due to arrive July 23, he’s come to some firm conclusions about such movies and what [...]

In their eagerness to praise director Christopher Nolan and his new film, dream-thief actioner ‘Inception’, the critics have taken one particular phrase to their collective hearts: he’s the New Kubrick. Their reasoning is simple: both men have been allowed to exercise total creative control over their projects, both explore science fiction concepts, both utilise an often icy, [...]

NEARLY everything in Christopher Nolan’s world is more than it appears to be. In his hands his 2000 feature“Memento” became not only a taut thriller with a catchy psychological gimmick but also a calling card to a career of cinematic independence.
His most recent film, “The Dark Knight,” was not just a big-budget summer movie about a vigilante in a [...]

It only took 25 years after their first, small collaboration, but director Taylor Hackford finally found the right film to make with his wife Helen Mirren. And to think: Love Ranch, which opens next week, almost didn’t open at all. The fictionalized story of the first legal brothel in the U.S. — and the crimes of passion [...]

Almost one month after Guillermo del Toro dropped out of directing “The Hobbit,” “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson is in talks to helm the two films in the franchise. While we wait for the studios involved or Jackson’s manager to confirm, there are lots of questions that remain before [...]

George Romero, the filmmaker who re-created the modern horror film with his 1968 renegade black-and-white classic “Night of the Living Dead,” has his fifth sequel, “Survival of the Dead,” opening tonight at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Illness prevented Romero, 70, from flying into Chicago. So, we played a round of Seven Questions on the [...]

Director Guillermo Del Toro has left Middle Earth.
Citing delays in the project and financial questions surrounding MGM, Del Toro announced Sunday that he is dropping out of filming the “The Hobbit,” the prequel to J.R.R. Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings.”
“In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming ‘The Hobbit,’ I [...]

During the filming of American Gangster with Sir Ridley Scott, producer Brian Grazer approached Russell Crowe about starring in a new Robin Hood. Grazer looked forward to reteaming with the performer, with whom he had already enjoyed two successful collaborations—on A Beautiful Mind, for which Crowe earned an Oscar® nod, and Cinderella Man. For this [...]