Wes Anderson has copped flak from his Fantastic Mr Fox crew for directing the film in absentia.
Movie sets are fractious places. Most participants have an ego, a few have gross points and everyone has an opinion. Disagreements are famously common, but whatever goes on behind the scenes, however loud it may get, it’s an acknowledged rule that when the press turn up everyone smiles, professes respect for their co-workers and pitches that release date.
Somehow, on the set of Wes Anders..
Lloyd Kaufman’s distinctive brand of gross, tasteless schlock keeps on coming.
If you accused Lloyd Kaufman of making cheap, cheesy and vulgar films, he’d probably laugh — all the way to the bank. The founder of Troma Entertainment has been churning out low-rent exploitation movies since 1974. While countless US independent producers and distributors have fallen by the wayside, Kaufman has survived and prospered.
Troma claims it’s the longest-running indep..
A tweet of beauty is a joy forever, or so say marketers who don't think Jane Campion is doing enough to capture online attention to her new film.
What came first: The movie or its online marketing? There are increasingly times when the answer to such an obvious question is anything but straightforward. As the movie business grows ever more concerned about audiences, even as an increasing amount of titles struggle to carve out a profitable audience, the sway of marketing grows stronger. Apparently it’s the not the film you have, it&rsq..
Alejandro Amenábar’s latest film is an unlikely hit on home turf.
A sword-and-sandals epic about the Romans and Christians in ancient Egypt, directed by a Spanish filmmaker of Chilean origin, hardly sounds like a recipe for box-office success.
Yet Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora has achieved two remarkable feats in Spain: By ringing up €7 million ($A11.4 million) in its first four days, the English-language drama starring Rachel Weisz and Max Mingh..
Diwali, the festival of lights is upon us. Together with the ritual of firecrackers, oil lamps and clean houses to welcome the goddess of wealth and good fortune Lakshmi, the annual big screen Diwali-Bollywood battle is also set to burn. This year, Bollywood fans choose between Akshay Kumar’s star turn in the action-thriller Blue, Salman Khan’s romance vehicle Main Aur Mrs Khanna and t..
The Star Wars creator has put his foot in his mouth, again.
A few years ago George Lucas caused hoots of derision around the world when he made a series of dumb statements: the age of the blockbuster was over; “the secret to the future” would be a large number of small, web-distributed movies; and the movie-going habit was doomed.
The Star Wars creator has just had another bout of foot-in-mouth disease, stating last week that he doesn’t ..
The future for independent film is either extremely bleak or fairly bright. It all depends on who you talk to.
The independent film business in the US is mired in crisis, starved of funds and distribution slots, while younger audiences are deserting cinemas for other forms of entertainment.
Crisis, what crisis? Times may be tough for old white guys, but the industry is in the midst of a creative renaissance driven largely by emerging young talent.
Those wildly diverging views were aired last week at an I..
The once-mighty Disney-owned specialty label faces an uncertain future as the studio focuses on ‘branded’ movies.
For 25 years the Miramax brand was synonymous with intelligent, classy dramas typified by Good Will Hunting, The English Patient, My Left Foot and Shakespeare in Love, plus Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill and the multiple Oscar-winner Chicago.
Not any more. Ever since brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who founded the company in 1979, departed after an acrimonious parting wit..
A new website is catering to those who get caught short in the cinema.
American cinemagoers must, on average, have very small bladders…or drink copious amounts of soda before or during movies.
How else to explain the success of a US website, RunPee.com, which advises patrons on the exact times to take loo breaks and how long they can attend to their business without missing any good bits.
The site was created by a Florida-based software developer named Dan F..
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