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)

A few weeks back LucasArts had me over to their gaff; to have a play around with their new video game ‘Star Wars The Force Unleashed’ and to have a small glass of wine…or two. Well I had planned on just staying in on that particular weekend, but on the ‘ possibly-the-best-ever-opportunity-ever-ever’ meter, this was [...]

Mathieu Kassovitz is pissed off. The French auteur, who first made waves in 1995 with La Haine, is supposed to be celebrating the passion project he’s been nursing for the past five years. Instead — the week before Babylon A.D. hits theaters — he is nursing a grudge. “I’m very unhappy with the film,” he says. “I never [...]

Indie film’s easy-money era is over, but new opportunities are emerging.
 
These days, any seller hoping to land a distribution deal at a fest or market like Toronto in September realizes that only a few lucky winners will land a seven-figure minimum guarantee from a studio specialty division.
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Director John Hillcoat and colleagues, in adapting the Pulitzer-winning work, have toiled to weigh hopelessness against faith.
(LA Times)

These days, “300″ director Zack Snyder is hard at work perfecting the impossible. As you read this, he is undoubtedly in some dark edit bay, unshaven and chugging a Starbucks, doing his very best to transform “Watchmen” from an unfilmable comic book into the next smash superhero movie.
(MTV)