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fromThe New Yorker
23 hours ago

An Artists' Duel Proves Restorative in "The Christophers"

Soderbergh has become such a prolific, tirelessly resourceful, and altogether uncategorizable filmmaker that you have to wonder why the mechanics of the break-in still inspire him.
Independent films
fromEsquire
11 hours ago

The Best Action Movies of 2026 (So Far)

In the new film, he plays a hit man named Mike who is attempting to leave the business when he's framed for murder. He's sleeping with loan shark Nick's wife Alice, so Nick tricks him into pulling off one last job.
Television
Film
fromVulture
1 day ago

Should A24 Be Worried About The Drama's Plot-Twist Drama?

The Drama features a controversial plot twist involving a character's admission of a near mass shooting, sparking significant backlash.
Humor
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Why do this spring's blockbusters feel so smug?

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice combines multiple genres but relies on repetitive comedic elements that feel familiar and uninspired.
#independent-film
fromVulture
2 months ago
Film

Will Poulter Gets His Movie

Nonprofessional participants give Union County raw authenticity while Will Poulter's quiet, watchful performance underscores his character's outsider status in recovery.
fromIndieWire
2 months ago
Film

Festival Programmers Pick Their Favorite 2025 Films Without Wide Release

The Popcorn List highlights 25 festival-acclaimed independent feature films without wide release to increase visibility and track their distribution progress.
Media industry
fromIndieWire
2 days ago

To Access Stranded Capital, Filmmakers Need to Learn Demand-Side Thinking

Shifting from supply-side to demand-side thinking is crucial for independent filmmakers to attract investment and audience interest.
SOMA, SF
fromIndieWire
5 days ago

Steven Soderbergh's 'The Christophers' Wins Narrative Audience Award at Sonoma International Film Festival 2026

The Sonoma International Film Festival 2026 showcased 104 films, highlighting emerging filmmakers and culinary experiences, with increased ticket sales.
Podcast
fromSan Jose Spotlight
4 days ago

San Jose filmmakers create space to support women - San Jose Spotlight

PowerHouse is a women-owned production and event space in San Jose aimed at empowering women in the broadcast industry.
fromNo Film School
12 hours ago

How a $30K Animated Indie Scored a Theatrical Run - Then Landed on HBO

Glander and producer Payson made Boys Go to Jupiter with a tiny team and a $30,000 budget, showcasing the potential of indie filmmaking in animation.
Independent films
#romantic-comedy
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

"The Drama" Struggles to Justify Its Combustible Premise

Charlie and Emma navigate their relationship's challenges through humor and the concept of starting over.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

"The Drama" Struggles to Justify Its Combustible Premise

Charlie and Emma navigate their relationship's challenges through humor and the concept of starting over.
Television
fromThe Independent
2 days ago

Every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month

April brings new releases including the film Apex and the second season of a popular series on Netflix.
#new-directorsnew-films
fromThe New Yorker
23 hours ago
Independent films

New Directors, New Films

The New Directors/New Films series showcases diverse films with innovative narratives, including 'Variations on a Theme' and 'Next Life'.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
3 days ago
Independent films

Exclusive Clip: Roseanne Pel on Her New Directors/New Films Closing Night Title Donkey Days

The 55th New Directors/New Films festival showcases rising talent from April 8-19, featuring diverse films including Leviticus and Donkey Days.
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
3 days ago

Exclusive Clip: Roseanne Pel on Her New Directors/New Films Closing Night Title Donkey Days

The 55th New Directors/New Films festival showcases rising talent from April 8-19, featuring diverse films including Leviticus and Donkey Days.
fromAnOther
2 days ago

Films to See This April

Emma drops an absolute bombshell in the midst of a game where they're asked to reveal the worst thing they've ever done. Soon everyone around her starts to question how well they really know her.
Film
Independent films
fromVulture
18 hours ago

Ryan Gosling Can't Star in the Daniels' Upcoming Project

Ryan Gosling will not star in the upcoming film by Everything Everywhere All at Once directors due to scheduling conflicts.
#a24
Film
fromVulture
3 days ago

How Much Is Kristoffer Borgli Trolling Us?

The Drama explores the consequences of confessing past mistakes in relationships and questions societal judgments on personal actions.
Film
fromVulture
3 days ago

How Much Is Kristoffer Borgli Trolling Us?

The Drama explores the consequences of confessing past mistakes in relationships and questions societal judgments on personal actions.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.

Atsushi Nishijima, an on-set stills photographer, has documented major films over the past decade and a half, capturing candid moments between takes on sets directed by prominent filmmakers.
fromInverse
2 days ago

James Gunn's First Movie Proves He Hasn't Changed in 20 Years

Gunn's first screenplay, Tromeo & Juliet, was co-written with Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman, promising 'all the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had.'
Independent films
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

From the phone to the plex: why TV shows are turning into movies

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man achieved over 25 million views on Netflix in three days, showcasing the shift from cinema to streaming.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

'American Classic' is a hidden gem that gets even better as it goes

American Classic is a charming streaming series on MGM+ about a Shakespearean actor who returns to his small Pennsylvania hometown to escape scandal and reconnect with local theater.
Film
fromEsquire
4 days ago

The 9 Best Movies of 2026 (So Far)

Major studio films have underperformed, while smaller films have offered fresh ideas and engaging stories.
Media industry
fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago

If You've Been Waiting for Normal in Hollywood, Here It Is

YouTube surpassed Disney as the world's largest media company while accomplished independent producers like Ted Hope struggle to find industry support, signaling a fundamental shift in entertainment's structure and sustainability.
Independent films
fromEsquire
3 days ago

Andrew Scott Knows the Next Stephen Spielberg Is Out There. But How Do We Find Them?

We Were Here is a humorous mockumentary about Indian retirees resisting AI by taking over machine jobs.
fromRaymondcamden
1 week ago

Checking if a Movie has a Post or Mid Credit Scene

The app is incredibly simple. I made use of the wonderful SimpleCSS for my design and then made use of the TMDB API. The TMDB APIs are pretty easy to use, but finding out how to get this information did take a bit of digging.
Film
Film
fromThe Independent
1 week ago

Splitsville review - Dakota Johnson's star turn makes this open marriage comedy work

Dakota Johnson excels in both comedic and dramatic roles, showcasing her versatility in films like Splitsville and Madame Webb.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Being Ola review a sweet and gentle film about disability, friendship and abandonment

Ola Henningsen navigates his feelings of friendship and abandonment in a gentle film set in a Norwegian community for individuals with disabilities.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Kate Hudson Has Some Notes for Contemporary Rom-Coms

Every time I go a couple years without a home base here, I feel a little off-center. Though she's based in Los Angeles, she's almost always had a place somewhere in Manhattan - Gramercy, King Street, a grimy Chelsea loft with ex-husband Chris Robinson (a real-estate memory that delights her when I bring it up midway through our lunch).
NYC food
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

'Project Hail Mary' becomes Amazon MGM's biggest box office hit | TechCrunch

Project Hail Mary has brought in an estimated $164.3 million in North America, as well as $136.2 million overseas, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Independent films
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

More Heart Than a Midnight Movie: Oscar Boyson and Ricky Camilleri on Our Hero, Balthazar

The film Our Hero, Balthazar explores identity and ego through a dark comedy about a teen trying to prevent a school shooting.
Independent films
fromNo Film School
1 week ago

How Some Clever Marketing Got My $75K Microbudget Film on HBO

Indie filmmakers can thrive despite traditional distribution collapse by leveraging digital marketing and audience engagement strategies.
Film
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Are you in a competitive creative career? Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins has advice on what it takes to find success

Even Academy Award-winning filmmakers like Barry Jenkins worked survival jobs while building their careers, emphasizing that persistence and flexibility are essential for sustaining a creative career in film.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

Why This Director Is Raising $3 Million for a Rom-Com Ecosystem

Jonah Feingold is building Romantical, a media company infrastructure around romantic comedy, applying startup methodology to independent film production and distribution.
Film
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Hollywood Is Dead: We Must Fight to Save the True Magic

Technological advancement in filmmaking has eliminated scarcity and bottlenecks that once created awe, diminishing the magic of cinema through abundance rather than enhancing it.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

Indie Film Has an Architecture Problem

The indie film model is structurally designed to fail, with misaligned incentives between investors, filmmakers, distributors, and audiences, resulting in only 0.025% of screenplays achieving profitable theatrical outcomes.
Film
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

Do Original Movies Have Any Hope Left? I Went on a Journey to Find Out.

Theaters must create unique event experiences to compete with home entertainment, driving elaborate marketing stunts and premium screen innovations.
Film
fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago

Have You Been Hurt by Media Consolidation? I Have.

The infrastructure supporting independent film production and distribution has collapsed, eliminating financing options, distribution channels, and profit opportunities that sustained filmmakers for decades.
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

From playwright to stage manager

Self-generating AI interfaces require structured constraints like A2UI to prevent chaotic, unusable experiences and shift designers from deterministic blueprints to probabilistic protocols.
Film
fromNo Film School
4 weeks ago

Reclaiming Distribution: A Modern Indie Release Strategy

Filmmaker Gille Klabin abandoned traditional distribution for his second feature, choosing self-distribution with transparent data-driven marketing to maintain creative control and maximize returns on his low-budget film.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

True crime, teen moms and global tragedy in cinemas this week

On February 8, 1977, Indianapolis businessman Tony Kiritzis (Bill Skarsgard) kidnapped Richard Hall, a mortgage company president (Stranger Things' Dacre Montgomery), claiming that Hall's company had sabotaged his real estate investment. Kiritzis rigged a 12-gauge shotgun with a hair-trigger "dead man's wire" around Hall's neck, ensuring that Hall would die if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. He held Hall for three days as police, family members, a charismatic local radio DJ (Colman Domingo) and TV reporters were drawn into the standoff.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

'I want to make tiny little movies that don't seem tiny,' says Kristen Stewart

I want to make tiny little movies that then don't seem tiny.
Arts
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Erotic gay smash Heated Rivalry is a well-timed defense of intimacy coordinators | Adrian Horton

A pivotal mid-episode four intimate scene transforms Hollander and Rozanov's hazy hookup into an emotionally fraught relationship, with sex functioning as their primary dialogue.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies

This year's Oscar contenders feature nonprofessional actors alongside established performers, creating authentic performances that distinguish these films in the new casting achievement category.
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

17 great movies ruined by terrible endings

10 Cloverfield Lane Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr are locked in an underground bunker for the majority of this left-field sequel to Cloverfield, with thrilling results. In the film's final throes, Winstead's character exits the bunker, and finds that her captor was telling the truth about an alien invasion above - a twist that completely and ruinously dissipates the hard-earned tension that came before.
Film
Film
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

AI's promise to indie filmmakers: faster, cheaper, lonelier | TechCrunch

An AI-created short film recreates tactile, dreamlike cinematic style to tell a Filipino-American, Ilocano-language, surreal family encounter in rural Hawai'i.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

The Indie Spirits Flip the Oscar Script

In a big studio-backed awards season, it's rare to see much overlap between the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Oscars. A west coast cousin of sorts to the Gotham Awards, the Indie Spirits often celebrate the movies that the Academy skipped over with its nominations. The ceremony itself is also more fun (there's some day-drinking involved) than the more staid guild awards that dot the homestretch ahead of the similarly serious Academy Awards.
Film
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Guide #229: How an indie movie distributed by a lone gamer broke the US box office

Two unusual releases contrasted a costly, widely distributed first-lady documentary with a self-financed YouTuber-made indie horror that achieved notable box-office success.
Film
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Movies 2026: Here are 18 films we are excited to see

2026 features two major Pixar releases, high-profile adaptations, franchise sequels, and tentpole projects from filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Critics, Filmmakers, and Why the Future of Movies Belongs to the People Who Give a Sh*t About Them

At the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner, a lengthy speech about critics' relationship with filmmakers prompted playful roasts from presenters.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

True Story: I Used My Jeopardy! Winnings to Finance My First Feature

Lifelong passions for magic, film, and trivia converged into a filmmaking career and a rekindled fascination with Colon, Michigan's rich magic heritage and storytelling potential.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

Filmmaker who helped crack gay porn actor's gruesome Hollywood killing wins SXSW premiere

I was so disgusted. Like, no, you can't have a murder in this sea of people already dying - that's not right, not fair. We can't let this go.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Top of the props: meet the unsung heroes behind the memorable objects in your favourite films

It's nice that you are asking about props, because they're not really acknowledged, says Jode Mann, a TV prop master in Los Angeles. When Mann worked on the children's comedy show Pee-wee's Playhouse in the 1980s, she got a call from its star, Paul Reubens, who said he was nominating her for an Emmy. It was only after Mann told her mother and promised to thank her if she won that Reubens called back to say he couldn't nominate her because there's no category for you.
Film
#sundance-film-festival
fromIndieWire
2 months ago
Film

Bob Berney on Five Wild Decades at Sundance, and Chasing Movies No One Else Wanted Like 'Memento' and 'Donnie Darko'

fromIndieWire
2 months ago
Film

Bob Berney on Five Wild Decades at Sundance, and Chasing Movies No One Else Wanted Like 'Memento' and 'Donnie Darko'

Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

The Best Films of 2025 As Chosen By Some of Its Key Directors

Cinema persists as a collective, embodied form of resistance and memory against normalized violence and the outsourcing of recollection to algorithms.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I wasn't acting: that was me': how non-actors took over Oscar season

Directors often cast non-professionals to capture authenticity through lived experience and physical presence alongside trained actors.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Is it Too Late to Save Hollywood?

"The thing I don't understand is how you lose money running a laundromat," Hamrah writes, "especially if you own the building."
Film
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Narnia! Dune! Charli xcx! The 2026 films Guardian writers are most excited about

Greta Gerwig will restart the Narnia series with The Magician's Nephew, while Denis Villeneuve has fast-tracked Dune: Messiah for imminent release.
Film
from48 hills
1 month ago

Screen Grabs: All eyes on IndieFest and Mostly British's big cinematic ideas - 48 hills

Two long-running Bay Area festivals, SF IndieFest and Mostly British Film Festival, reopen with locally focused, daring films including documentaries on Santacon and Dennis Peron.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

Independent studios scramble to stay afloat as film and TV production lags

Last week, he opened a $230-million movie and television studio on the edge of the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles nestled alongside the dramatic new Sixth Street Bridge. The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp. "We just had all the major networks, all the major streaming platforms walk through this facility and they can't believe how nice it is," said Wainright, managing partner of East End Studios.
Film
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Every Documentary Filmmaker Should Be Worried About the Success of 'Melania'

It's not because "Melania" is an exquisitely made, informative documentary. It's not even a documentary. Instead, it falls in the category of glossy advertisement or unconvincing propaganda film with a multimillion-dollar music licensing budget. Amazon MGM Studios paid $40 million for the rights to film. That offer came with a jaw-dropping $35 million marketing budget, which Amazon spent while also cutting 16,000 corporate jobs.
Film
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

A Tech Writer's Appreciation of Scott Macaulay

Digital technologies and the internet democratized filmmaking, enabling indie filmmakers with low-cost equipment and new distribution platforms, reshaping production, post-production, and exhibition.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

My Best Work as (Mostly) an Editor

Laid-off after 11+ years, a career summarized through curated print archives, notable interviews, commissioning achievements, and comprehensive 35mm production indexing.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Livestream: 4 award-winning filmmakers on risk-taking cinema

European filmmakers are embracing risk, political engagement, intimacy and formal freedom in opposition to franchise- and algorithm-driven global film trends.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

How to Build a $10 Million Film Fund from Your Basement

Sally simplifies SPVs to make pooled investor financing accessible, helping independent producers escape scramble-for-money production cycles.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Callum Turner and George MacKay Board a Bad Boat in Rose of Nevada Trailer

It's supposed to be a good thing, isn't it: finding something that got lost? But what if that lost thing isn't just a pair of sunglasses but a whole entire boat, the likes of which hasn't been seen for 30 years? In Mark Jenkin's forthcoming Rose of Nevada, out June 19, the title refers to said missing ship, once lost only to now drift back into the harbor of the remote fishing village whence it disappeared.
Film
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Is This Thing On? review funny is as funny does in Bradley Cooper's John Bishop-inspired tale

Will Arnett plays a believable, non-outrageous would-be comedian in a likable but not fully convincing remarriage comedy directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

How Do You Talk About a Movie Like Josephine?

Eight-year-old Josephine witnesses a rape, experiences trauma-induced visions of the perpetrator, and faces scrutiny over her competence to identify and testify against him.
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Who Makes a Horror Movie About Cancer in Their Real Home? Meet the Radical 'Mother of Flies' Family

We're a very open family.
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