NYAFF Review: Top Star
When one of NYAFF’s programmers introduced Top Star, he said that it was surprising that this was Park Joong-hoon’s directorial debut. Park has worked ...
Tag: Industry
Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney hug it out and part ways
For the past 20 years Disney has had a first-look option on Jerry Bruckheimer’s films resulting in 27 movies, bajillions of dollars for ...
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Steve McQueen and the mountains made out of molehills
Yesterday over at Twitch, columnist Matt Brown published a piece about how he thinks filmmaker Steve McQueen is a dick. According to Brown, ...
Book: Very Naughty Boys (HandMade Films)
My knowledge of the British film industry is spotty at best. Beyond the requisite Hammer fandom, an admiration for classic Ealing comedies (e.g., ...
David Lynch says state of film industry “depressing”
You can add David Lynch to the list of directors lamenting the current state of film. (Previously we’ve heard Steven Soderbergh deliver a ...
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. split
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have finally parted ways with one another. This isn’t some cheesy romantic break-up between two studios, their contract ...
Regal Cinemas to raise their ticket prices 4%
Deadline reported that Regal ticket prices are expected to go up 3% to 4% this year, in keeping with patterns from previous years. ...
World War Z needs $400 million to break even
Summer movie train wreck World War Z is looking to cause a world of hurt for Paramount when it releases if a recent Vanity ...
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Before VFX: An apology to the Visual Effects community
If you spend any significant amount of time on film- or tech-oriented websites, you’ve probably seen some coverage of the controversy surrounding the ...
Flixclusive: Why Henson shelved Del Toro’s Pinocchio
We just reported that Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio has been put on the back burner by the Jim Henson Company. The film’s co-writer, ...
Gore Verbinski to direct and produce Pyongyang
I’m not the comic book guy around these parts so my knowledge of the graphic novel Pyongyang is limited to cursory information, but it ...
The Evil Dead remake’s first cut received an NC-17 rating
News that I’m sure will please fans of everything blood and gore, director Fede Alvarez recently Tweeted that his first cut of the ...