The Ron Howard film goes behind the scenes of the high-stakes televised gamble that pitted a disgraced Richard Nixon against a diminished David Frost in a quest for salvation.

Sony Corp.’s movie unit may join with Viacom Inc.’s Paramount to finance Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s planned “Tintin” movie, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Sony is close to agreeing to pay half of the $130 million budget for the movie, the newspaper said, without making it clear where it got the information.

Kirk Douglas knows all about “runaway production” to foreign locales.
Sitting on a striped couch in the living room of his Beverly Hills home, surrounded by paintings by Balthus, Vuillard and other modernist masters, the screen legend can still feel the sting of betrayal 50 years later.
After an arduous day of shooting boat-rowing scenes for “The [...]

Have video games become so complex and cinematic in their storytelling that they’re a good breeding ground for films?
Or have studios gotten so lazy that they figure, hey, this game’s popular. Let’s toss off a movie and maybe the kids who play it will buy tickets?
“Max Payne” offers a little evidence for both sides, but [...]

It’s 3 a.m. on a crowd-clogged New York City street and ? Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have spent the past few hours trying to fall in love. So far, they’ve come up just short of true romance. The point of diminishing returns is drawing dangerously close on the set of Revolutionary Road, where the Titanic stars are [...]

By far, my favorite moment of the TCA press tour this Summer was getting to wander around the set of Pushing Daisies, which returns tonight for its second season. As lovely and fanciful as the Daisies world looks on television, it’s even more wonderful in person, filling up two full sound stages on the Warner Bros. lot. The entire set [...]

On Saturday September 27th in Los Angeles, producer Ted Hope gave the keynote speech at Film Independent’s Filmmaker Forum “There is no crisis,” Hope proclaimed in his opening comments.” Creativity is not a victim of any distribution meltdown, but the intoxication of acceptance via ‘officialdom’ has turned itself on its head.” Hope notes that the [...]

When I was writing the other day about Gary Fleder’s “The Express,” which tells the soulful story of Syracuse running back Ernie Davis, I mentioned that Fleder had spent a lot of time in recent years directing TV pilots.It’s not exactly glamorous work, but I know several directors who say it’s been an invaluable educational tool in [...]

What’s shot where? The following outlines what projects have been shot — partially or mostly — in each state.
(USA Today)