If Stan Lee is the father of the modern comic book superhero, then Avi Arad is the godfather of the modern superhero movie - at least those that were adapted from Mr. Lee’s creations for Marvel Comics.
Before Mr. Arad became involved in bringing Marvel characters to the big screen, comic nerds of my generation […]

 
To hear him talk, you’d think George Lucas would have preferred to call his movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up.
Lucas, who co-wrote and produced the May 22 film, can sound downright sullen when it comes to his expectations of fan reaction to the year’s most highly […]

 
Who says no one takes risks in Hollywood anymore?
Until late last week, Mary Parent had one of the great jobs in the movie business. After helping preside over a string of hits as a top executive at Universal Pictures, Parent left the studio two years ago to produce films with Scott Stuber, a longtime friend […]

 
Film producer Paul Schiff is a victim of the actors strike.
The fact that the actors strike hasn’t happened yet, and many in Hollywood doubt it will, is beside the point. Schiff and producers like him are at the mercy of insurance companies, which are refusing to cover independent movies that can’t be filmed before mid-June.
Schiff, […]

 
”It’s funny,” beams Uma Thurman, “but in Hollywood, you don’t hear the word ‘bitch’ as much as you used to. Up until recently, if ever a woman was doing well or achieving something, that term was liberally applied. Women were called all sorts of names.” Sitting in the comfortable confines of London’s Dorchester hotel, looking […]

 
Scott Rudin met one of the key role models for his life when he was a teenager. In the early 1970s, when other kids were playing guitar, shooting hoops or just seeing how long their hair could grow, the 15-year-old Rudin spent his days working for theater producer Kermit Bloomgarden, a legendary Broadway impresario who produced […]

 
Nehst (pronounced ”next”) Studios chief Larry Meistrich — former honcho of The Shooting Gallery — is back, searching for undiscovered scripts. Take a behind-the-scenes look at his bid to give regular folks a chance to make movies with the pros.
(Source: EW.com)

 
There is a good reason why Guillermo del Toro is one of the most beloved directors among genre and horror fans, and it isn’t just because his body of work is so solid, many of them setting the standards for horror in whichever sub-genre he chooses to work at any given time.
For instance, del Toro’s […]

 
A dozen striking screenwriters gathered in the bar at the Hotel Bel Air not long ago to decompress after another day on the picket line. Less than 10 feet away sat another strike-weary pair: Peter Chernin, president of the News Corporation, and Barry Meyer, chief executive of Warner Brothers.
Neither group acknowledged the other, although a […]

 
Seemingly not content with producing some of the world’s most videogame-friendly movie franchises, Hollywood bigwig Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Top Gun, Black Hawk Down) has joined forces with MTV to launch a brand new videogame development studio.
Bruckheimer, who is also producing the Hollywood adaptation of Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, […]