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fromNo Film School
1 day 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
#comedy
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fromConsequence
2 days ago

Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone & Lulu Wilson on Pizza Movie, Body Swaps, and Building a Cult Classic: Podcast

Pizza Movie transforms a late-night food run into a bizarre adventure with body swaps and hallucinations, showcasing intentional humor and character dynamics.
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fromAnOther
4 days ago

Films to See This April

Kristoffer Borgli's film The Drama explores social mortification and modern performative life through a wedding couple's shocking revelation.
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fromConsequence
2 days ago

Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone & Lulu Wilson on Pizza Movie, Body Swaps, and Building a Cult Classic: Podcast

Pizza Movie transforms a late-night food run into a bizarre adventure with body swaps and hallucinations, showcasing intentional humor and character dynamics.
Film
fromAnOther
4 days ago

Films to See This April

Kristoffer Borgli's film The Drama explores social mortification and modern performative life through a wedding couple's shocking revelation.
Music production
fromIndieWire
3 days ago

This Is What Honest AI Conversations Sound Like in Hollywood

Mastery in the age of AI is evolving, requiring individuals to excel beyond a baseline of quickly learned skills.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
3 days ago

'Thank You For Generating With Us!' Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train

Generative AI is revolutionary, but it cannot replace human creativity, which is rooted in effort and experience.
Media industry
fromIndieWire
3 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.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago

California Dreaming: The latest issue of A Rabbit's Foot is about the inventors and innovators of our movie-making culture

A Rabbit's Foot magazine celebrates the future of film and artistic craftsmanship while exploring California's innovative cultural landscape.
SOMA, SF
fromIndieWire
6 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.
Film
fromVulture
2 days 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.
Independent films
fromKqed
4 days ago

Visiting the First Film Festival at a Women's Prison in California History | KQED

Short films depict the complexities of prison life, blending personal stories with themes of rehabilitation and family connections.
Arts
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

Horror show shatters box office records in San Francisco

A new play, 'Paranormal Activity,' has set box office records at A.C.T. by attracting new audiences and generating significant ticket sales.
Paris food
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

Cannes Film Festival Head Thierry Fremaux on the Past and Future of Movies

Thierry Frémaux plays a crucial role in film programming and history, connecting past cinema with contemporary selections.
Film
from48 hills
2 days ago

Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company - 48 hills

Love can take unconventional forms, as seen in films featuring relationships with aliens, witches, and other offbeat characters.
fromIndieWire
4 days ago

You Can't Make a 'Cult Classic' with Marketing - Opinion

'Forbidden Fruits' has been widely hailed as a 'cult classic' by critics and fans, but labeling it as such too soon risks undermining the process that establishes a film's cultural significance over time.
Independent films
Typography
fromfontsinuse.com
2 weeks ago

Pussy Wagon

The Pussy Wagon, a pink Chevrolet Silverado from Kill Bill: Volume 1, reframes a sexist term through Tarantino's affirmation, becoming an iconic symbol of female revenge and empowerment.
Film
from48 hills
5 days ago

Screen Grabs: Tributes to three trailblazing women filmmakers - 48 hills

The representation of women directors in major-studio films is declining, while they remain prominent in experimental and arthouse cinema.
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.
Film
fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

How Quentin Tarantino's One-Night "Detest Fest" Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction

Retro Rewind allows players to manage a video store in the 90s, evoking nostalgia for the era of video rentals.
Media industry
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

Harvey Weinstein Thinks He's Why 'Yellowstone' Was So Successful

Harvey Weinstein claims credit for Yellowstone's success by stating he brought Taylor Sheridan to the project and recommended Kevin Costner for the lead role while imprisoned at Rikers Island.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

If You Loved Leo's Oscars Mustache, You'll Love the New Scorsese

Leonardo DiCaprio sports a mustache for his upcoming Martin Scorsese film 'What Happens at Night,' starring alongside Jennifer Lawrence in a dreamlike story about an American couple adopting a baby in Europe.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

The New Yorker Wins an Oscar in a Tie!

A tie occurred in the Best Live Action Short Film category at the Oscars, with 'Two People Exchanging Saliva' sharing the award, marking only the seventh tie in Academy Awards history.
Independent films
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Pixar filmmakers really gave a dam about making Hoppers' authentic

Pixar's Hoppers prioritizes comedy and entertainment through a collaborative creative process where a teenage activist's consciousness transfers into a robotic beaver fighting to save a pond habitat.
Film
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

He Was the Losingest Filmmaker in Oscars History. To Finally Triumph, He Changed Something.

Paul Thomas Anderson ended his record 0-11 Oscar losing streak by winning three awards for One Battle After Another, including Best Director, after years of nominations without victories.
Film
fromPsychology Today
3 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.
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.
Media industry
fromVulture
1 month ago

Everybody Loses

David Ellison's Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. over Netflix's bid will likely result in massive debt, layoffs, reduced content production, and a rightward-leaning combined news operation.
#tarantino-controversy
Film
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Yeah, It's Probably a Good Time to Hear From Quentin Tarantino

Rosanna Arquette criticized Tarantino's use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction as racist and creepy, prompting Tarantino to respond with a letter accusing her of disrespecting the film for publicity.
Film
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Yeah, It's Probably a Good Time to Hear From Quentin Tarantino

Rosanna Arquette criticized Tarantino's use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction as racist and creepy, prompting Tarantino to respond with a letter accusing her of disrespecting the film for publicity.
Film
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

The Oscars' Best Picture category exposes a harsh new reality for Hollywood | Fortune

Hollywood's film production is collapsing, with no Best Picture nominees filmed on Los Angeles soundstages, shoot days plummeting 46% since 2022, and 41,000 industry workers departing.
Film
fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks ago

This Cult Filmmaker Learned Something About Audiences Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know'Make Them Feel Something'

Kevin Smith built a personal brand by connecting directly with fans, which created lasting career opportunities beyond individual film projects in an unpredictable industry.
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.
Cooking
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Nick Frost: Tarantino has pictures of me in his cinema'

Uses shop-bought shortcrust or flaky pastry for double-crust pies; favorites include slow-braised steak with minced beef and roasted shallots, chicken and mushroom, apple and cinnamon.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Why Sentimental Value should win the best picture Oscar

Sentimental Value is an ambitious family saga spanning decades that blends personal drama with filmmaking themes, featuring exceptional performances from its four Oscar-nominated leads.
#quentin-tarantino
Film
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Quentin Tarantino to Swashbuckle the West End

Quentin Tarantino will write and direct a swashbuckling stage comedy called The Popinjay Cavalier, premiering on London's West End in early 2027.
Film
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

Quentin Tarantino's West End play is really happening and it now has an official name and a date

Quentin Tarantino is writing his stage debut, a 1830s European period comedy called The Popinjay Cavalier, scheduled for West End production in early 2027.
Film
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Quentin Tarantino to Swashbuckle the West End

Quentin Tarantino will write and direct a swashbuckling stage comedy called The Popinjay Cavalier, premiering on London's West End in early 2027.
Film
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

Quentin Tarantino's West End play is really happening and it now has an official name and a date

Quentin Tarantino is writing his stage debut, a 1830s European period comedy called The Popinjay Cavalier, scheduled for West End production in early 2027.
Film
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

The Best Documentaries of 2026 (So Far)

A 1985 fan-made Star Trek film starring George Takei, lost for 40 years, has resurfaced, documenting early fandom culture before it became a mainstream commercial force.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
Film
fromAxios
4 weeks ago

How Ryan Coogler is rewriting Hollywood's ownership playbook

Director Coogler secured unprecedented deal for 'Sinners' receiving direct royalties from streaming, broadcasts, licensing and merchandising, signaling a power shift from studios to creators in Hollywood.
fromVulture
4 weeks ago

17 Movies With Exclamation-Point Titles, Ranked!

During a junket interview with OutNow, Gyllenhaal explained that the punctuation mark was included to represent the "whole lot of energy" that comes out when the historically muted Bride of Frankenstein is finally allowed to speak. That's all well and good, but to viewers the titular exclamation point is less of a metaphor and more of a golden arrow saying, "This movie is going to be crazy."
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fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Of Course Oscar Voters Still Aren't Watching All the Movies

The Academy's new requirement for voters to certify they've watched all nominated films relies on an honor system that voters are openly admitting to circumventing through false attestations and technical loopholes.
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The toxic friendship that built modern Hollywood

George Lucas should have died. It was 1962; the 17-year-old had just crashed his yellow Autobianchi convertible into a walnut tree, in Modesto, California. The car rolled, bounced and came to rest - it was "beyond mangled, flipped upside down and twisted like a crushed Coke can against the tree". When the teenager woke in hospital two weeks later, his heart having nearly stopped, he had a new philosophy: "Maybe there's a reason I survived this accident that nobody should have survived."
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul Fischer review the rise and reign of Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola

Using the diary recollections of Coppola's wife, the late Eleanor Coppola, who was also disconsolately aboard and feeling thoroughly shut out of the alpha male chatting and joshing, Fischer shows our three dishevelled deities dizzied and stunned and even weirdly depressed by their staggering global acclaim.
Film
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Warner Bros bipolarity: Improved results in streaming and film, but floundering in television

The historic film studios recorded global revenue of $37.3 billion, representing a 5% decrease compared to the previous year due to the decline in the cable business with a loss of advertising on the TNT, Discovery Channel, Cartoon Network and CNN channels.
Film
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.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Mark Ruffalo Questions James Cameron's Criticism of the Netflix-Warner Bros Deal

Mark Ruffalo challenges James Cameron's opposition to Netflix's Warner Bros. acquisition, asking whether similar concerns would apply to a Paramount acquisition.
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
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They're Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider

Hollywood studios are using AI more widely across writing and production than they publicly acknowledge.
Film
fromLe News
1 month ago

FILM: MARTY SUPREME ***1/2 - Watch out for the Oscars

Timothée Chalamet delivers a kinetic, captivating lead as Marty Reisman, a ruthless, ambitious 1950s ping-pong hustler driven to win at any cost.
Film
fromFast Company
1 month ago

James Cameron just made 3 arguments against Netflix buying Warner Bros. The last one has stakes for the entire world

James Cameron called Netflix's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. disastrous for the theatrical motion-picture business and notified Senator Mike Lee.
#brazilian-cinema
Film
fromParade
1 month ago

'Pulp Fiction' Actor's Brutal Cause of Death Is Revealed - Here's What We Know

Peter Greene died accidentally from a gunshot wound that severed his brachial artery, according to the New York City medical examiner.
Film
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Warner Bros. reopening takeover talks with Paramount, but Netflix deal still favoured | CBC News

Warner Bros. Discovery received a seven-day waiver from Netflix to reopen takeover talks with Paramount Skydance while remaining committed to the Netflix merger.
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
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.
#paul-dano
fromConsequence
1 month ago

The Adventures of Cliff Booth Gets Super Bowl Trailer

Starring Brad Pitt as the titular Cliff Booth along with Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, and more, the trailer depicts Booth after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. "So you helped rick subdue those hippie intruders, huh?," he's asked before replying "Something like that." The teaser then shows various scenes and scenarios from the film, but with minimal dialogue; though each time a character cusses or flips someone off, it's bleeped and censored.
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#george-clooney
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Why Gore Verbinski Disappeared From Hollywood

Gore Verbinski returns with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, a gonzo sci-fi action-adventure comedy where Sam Rockwell leads diner patrons against surreal AI apocalypse.
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.
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago

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

Bob Berney identifies promising films at Sundance, secures financing and distribution, and mounts release and awards campaigns that bring them to wide audiences.
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

The 17 Best Movies About Radio, Ranked | Features | Roger Ebert

Even in an era of CGI and AI, nothing is more vivid than the intimacy and imagination of radio or more direct than the connection radio has with listeners. I remember when the legendary Stan Freberg drained Lake Michigan and filled it with hot chocolate, a 700-foot mountain of whipped cream, and a 10-ton maraschino cherry. We didn't have to see it. We heard it on the radio. It was Freberg's demonstration of what radio can do better than television.
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fromEsquire
1 month ago

The 23 Sexiest Movies of All Time

Titanic is notable for a single sensual scene that defined a generation and solidified the film's status among the most erotic movies.
Film
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

James Cameron has more billion-dollar movies than Spielberg or Nolan. Why isn't he in the same breath?

James Cameron has four films that have surpassed $1 billion worldwide, yet he is often not ranked among today's greatest living directors.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

The Weinsteins Buried Jon Watts' First Feature in 2014 - It Now Has a New Life on Physical Media

Jon Watts turned a joking short about a possessed clown costume into Clown, his debut feature that launched his career and later achieved cult status.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

JLaw Claims She Wasn't 'Pretty Enough' for a Quentin Tarantino Film

Jennifer Lawrence believes perceived lack of physical resemblance and public comments prevented her from being cast as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

How the "Netflix Movie" Turns Cinema into "Visual Muzak"

A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

From Spielberg to Tarantino: the year's big Super Bowl movie trailers

Rising Super Bowl ad costs and a weakened box office have reduced major film advertising, with studios favoring TV/streaming while big blockbusters still advertise.
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Guillermo del Toro and Martin Scorsese Celebrate the 'Extraordinary Artistry' of 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'

"The film was shot in Ultra Panavision 70 with lenses that yielded an aspect ratio of 2.76 to 1, and it was breathtaking," Scorsese said. "But it wasn't just the size of the image, it was the imprint of the man behind the camera who knew how to fill that frame, how to compose it. And composer seems like the right word to describe George Stevens and the extraordinary level of artistry he reached at that point in his life and career."
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Primordial Soup and Time released an AI-generated short-form series recreating 1776 scenes, drawing major criticism for flawed visuals while producers expect improvement.
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