Into the Storm Brews a Mighty Economic Wind in Michigan
...status—the highest metric on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with winds of more than 200 miles per hour) behave erratically and do things they haven’t done before, sending terrified residents under ground (if...
The Very Real Effect Fictional Characters Have on Tourism
...popular movies and TV shows really influence tourism? According to research company Tourism Competitive Intelligence, they do. They found in 2012 that 40 million international tourists chose their destination primarily because they saw...
Creating the Incredible Time Travel Sequence in Lucy
...what we understand as she starts understanding more, until we end at a point where the audience can really no longer comprehend anything. What are those colored dots that appear before the...
Extreme Personalities: Four Fall Films About People on the Edge
...what J.K. Simmons, as band leader and instructor Terence Fletcher, instills in his students in Chazelle’s feature. We saw it when it was a short in last year’s New York Film Festival...
As TIFF Draws to a Close, Films & Performances Drawing Heat
...production company sagely snapped up Gillian Flynn's 2012 thriller, the hottest book of that summer by far, for one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year. And here comes Jennifer...
Longtime Collaborators Helped David Fincher Find Gone Girl
...novel is perhaps perfectly suited for his particular skill set. Gone Girl combines his instinctual way around pitch-black thrillers (Se7en, Zodiac, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), and offbeat, grimy comedies (Fight...
Win Your Halloween Costume Contest With Duds From Actual Films
...community farms in Brooklyn. And we’re talking about tons of material, to the tune of 122 tons in 2013 alone, representing 711 productions. This included more than 200 films, 165 commercials, 100...
Beyond Interstellar: 12 Films to Put On Your Calendar
...major wars, each of which considered a major contender come awards season; Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. Meanwhile, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Steven Sondheim's Into the Woods hits theaters...
Ridley Scott's 10 Commandments Making Exodus: Gods and Kings Part I
...to him in a burning bush, if you can consider the hands of producer Peter Chernin hot and fiery. As Scott puts it in an interview with 20th Century Fox, “For the...
The Imitation Game's Production Designer Maria Djurkovic - Part I
...its residents lived, worked and socialized. It was Hut 11 where Turing and his compatriots designed their own codebreaking machine and try to decipher the German's daily communications. There was a beer hut where...