November 6, 2012
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From Election and Frost/Nixon to Dr. Strangelove, 13 Film Clips to Ease You Into This Historic Day

...Spielberg's Lincoln, from DreamWorks Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox. Ph: David James, SMPSP –Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Living Underground Stanley Kubrick’s comic...

December 10, 2012
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Exec Producer and Writer Mark Goffman of White Collar Talks Aaron Sorkin, President Obama, and Patrick Swayze's Final Show

...a script under their direction. Warner Bros. showcases these scripts to their executive producers. Ed Decter and John Strauss (producers on There’s Something About Mary), the creators of Odd Man Out (a...

January 2, 2013
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A New Year's Movie Resolution From The Credits: 50 Films to Watch in 2013

...and commits small acts of good around the rural southern town he calls home. (No relation to the president you may be thinking of.) 14. Under The Volcano (Dir. John Huston, US 1984)...

March 16, 2013
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Week in Review: Seven Talking Points From the World of Film From the Past Week

...Hard yells, “Yippe Ki-yay, Pork Cheeks!” While multilingual actors including Antonio Banderas, Jodie Foster, and Sandra Bullock routinely get added compensation for doing their own dubbing, what’s even more interesting is how...

May 13, 2013
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From Hot Topic to Hollywood: Costume Designer Trayce Field of 2 Broke Girls

...who shop for TV shows would come into the store and I would chat them up about getting an assisting job. I started as a wardrobe PA on Sabrina the Teenage Witch,...

September 16, 2013
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Vision Quest: 5 Cinematographers & Their Unique Techniques

...and, earned himself his second Oscar nom, for A Very Long Engagement. He’s also tucked a blockbuster under his belt (and a third Oscar nom for his efforts) for Harry Potter and...

September 25, 2013
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Director Steve McQueen & his Actors Open up About 12 Years a Slave

...(Michael Fassbender). Northup is an educated, compassionate man forced to hide his intelligence and his compassion and live moment to moment by his wits to survive. “I liked the idea of free...

October 21, 2013
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Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Right Stuff With Writer/Director Philip Kaufman

...opportunity to try and break the sound barrier in the X-1, a supersonic prototype built by the Bell Aircraft Company in a joint project between the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the...

December 4, 2013
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Meeting Of The Memes: J.R.R. Tolkien’s 21st Century Film Fandom

...other. Clara found that involvement in online discussion gave her a “more in-depth, complete picture, critiquing Tolkien's views on race, politics, and gender.” Though open-minded for his time, some of the old...

March 26, 2014
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CinemaCon 2014: Universal Unveils Summer Lineup

...in Universal's Ted is back with A Million Ways to Die in the West. MacFarlane once again directs, produces, co-writes and stars in this film about a cowardly sheep farmer named Albert (MacFarlane) who...