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Noah Baumbach on ‘Frances Ha’: Why It Took 40 Takes to Make a Little Story Feel Epic

May 17, 2013 By Steve Pond 5 days ago

“I wanted to shoot a movie in black and white, so of course we went right to ‘Manhattan’”

  

Good Morning, Cannes: Will the Boo Birds Be Out for 'The Great Gatsby?'

May 15, 2013 By Steve Pond 1 week ago

Catcalls will put Baz Luhrmann's film in good company -- but the opening-night film is really just the aperitif before the sumptuous meal of cinema (and scandal) that is Cannes

  

Lottery Winner Turns 'Mini-Mogul' With String of Little Movies

May 3, 2013 By Steve Pond 2 weeks ago

Cynthia Stafford's movies are low-profile, but the lotto winner insists she's enjoying her new life as a producer and financier

  

How Deepa Mehta Overcame Protests to Film Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'

May 3, 2013 By Steve Pond 2 weeks ago

"My father said, 'There are two things in life that you never know. One is when you are going to die, and the other is how a film is going to do at the box office'"

  

Colin Firth & Emily Blunt: 'Arthur Newman' Is Not Just Indie, It's Subversive

April 26, 2013 By Steve Pond 3 weeks ago

Emily Blunt: "We didn't really know it was love story -- it's so unsentimental and cruel, it never really felt that way"

  

With 'To the Wonder,' Has Terrence Malick Gotten Too Terrence Malicky?

April 11, 2013 By Steve Pond 5 weeks ago

It has all the director's trademarks -- windswept plains, soulful gazes, thoughtful voiceovers -- but never before has a Malick movie gotten such negative reviews

  

Evan Rachel Wood, Bryce Dallas-Howard and Whoopi Goldberg Get Jury Dury at Tribeca

April 10, 2013 By Steve Pond 6 weeks ago

Jurors at the Tribeca Film Festival will also include Eva Longoria, Bobby Flay, Paul Haggis, Sheila Nevins, Mira Sorvino and Joe Berlinger

  

Ondi Timoner Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Train Artists in 'Disruptive' Technology

April 9, 2013 By Steve Pond 6 weeks ago

Documentary filmmaker wants to create online archive to show the ways in which content creators can embrace new paradigms in business, art and entertainment

  

Wake Up and Embrace the Technology, Urges Napster Documentary 'Downloaded'

April 2, 2013 By Steve Pond 7 weeks ago

Henry Rollins calls record companies "gun-clutching climate-change deniers"; director Alex Winter urges film industry to monetize new distribution technology rather than fighting it

  

Angola Movie Financier Rui Costa Reis Explains 'Phantom' Flop (Video)

March 13, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 10 weeks ago

In an exclusive video interview with TheWrap, Angola-born Rui Costa Reis offers his strategy for building a movie production and distribution studio, RCR Media Group

  

Indie Filmmakers Debate Post-Sundance: 'Where Is Harvey?' (Video)

March 8, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 10 weeks ago

Over Mexican food and under WhiteWater Films white umbrellas, a distinguished panel of filmmakers debated the state of independent film

  

Sundance Channel Picks Wolf Films Vet Nena Rodrigue to Head Programming

March 5, 2013 By Tim Kenneally 11 weeks ago

Rodrigue comes aboard as Sundance seeks to expand its original slate

  

Relativity Snatches Up Pablo Escobar Script, 'Silver or Lead'

March 5, 2013 By Greg Gilman 11 weeks ago

Piers Ashworth's screenplay follows the massive manhunt for the Colombian drug lord 

  

Sundance Selects Picks Up Alexandre Moors’ 'Blue Caprice'

March 5, 2013 By Greg Gilman 11 weeks ago

The Sundance Film Festival favorite stars Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond as the Beltway Sniper duo who shot random civilians in 2002

  

AFI Sets Nov. 7 for 2013 Film Festival

March 5, 2013 By Greg Gilman 11 weeks ago

The annual festival, which mixes films from established and emerging talent, will screen films at five locations in Hollywood this November

  

Sundance, Black List Partner to Aid Aspiring Filmmakers

March 5, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 11 weeks ago

If screenwriters upload their scripts to the Black List, they may be able to apply to the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab for free

  

Rock Documentary, Brad Pitt-Produced Look at Oil Industry Openers at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

March 5, 2013 By John Clarke 11 weeks ago

The Tribeca slate includes films from 30 countries, including 53 world premieres, 7 International premieres, 15 North American premieres, 6 U.S. premieres and 8 New York premieres,

  

James Franco Protests Australia's 'Really Silly' Decision to Ban Gay-Themed Film (Video)

March 4, 2013 By Greg Gilman 11 weeks ago

James Franco's "Interior. Leather Bar." co-director, Travis Matthews, directed the independent film set in San Francisco

  

Sundance Expands Film Festival to Hollywood This Summer

March 4, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 11 weeks ago

Sundance has built out its NEXT section into a four-day festival 

  

Former Village Voice Film Editor Dennis Lim to Program Lincoln Center Film Society

March 4, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 11 weeks ago

Robert Koehler steps down after a few months on the job for personal reaons

  

Independent Box Office: 'Stoker' Debuts to $22K Average

March 3, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 11 weeks ago

Thriller takes in $158K from 7 theaters for Fox Searchlight. "Leviathan" and "War Witch" solid in limited debuts

  

'Stoker' Review: When Style Becomes Self-Parody

February 28, 2013 By Alonso Duralde 11 weeks ago

Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska are buried in stares and significant pauses in director Park Chan-Wook’s overdone American debut

  

'How to Survive a Plague' Miniseries Being Developed by ABC Studios

February 28, 2013 By Tim Kenneally 11 weeks ago

Writer/director David France will executive produce the adaptation of his AIDS documentary "How to Survive a Plague"

  

Sarah Barnett Named Sundance Channel President

February 28, 2013 By Tim Molloy 11 weeks ago

Promoted from vice president as company prepares to roll out first wholly owned scripted drama

  

Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring' Arrives in June; Sundance Darling 'The Spectacular Now' Set for August

February 28, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 11 weeks ago

A24 set release dates for both movies, which it acquired in January

  

Relativity Taps 'The Rite' Director to Oversee Film Version of 'Tunnels' Fantasy Novels

February 28, 2013 By Brent Lang 11 weeks ago

"Tunnels" is the big-screen adaptation of the best-selling fantasy series