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Exclusive: Shane Carruth Will Invent a New Banking System For His Next Movie
It took far too much time for Shane Carruth to make his followup to Primer. The near-decade wait for his second feature didn’t come from laziness, since Carruth spent time working on an expensive...
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘You’re Next’ Delivers Big Laughs, Bloody Kills and...
It’s become pretty fashionable these days for people to retroactively bash movies that enjoyed honest and deserved praise upon release. Wes Craven’s Scream has received such a backlash in recent...
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‘Las brujas de Zugarramurdi’ Trailer is New Screaming Insanity From Alex De...
Jesus Christ with a shotgun. A cave filled with riotous witches. Whatever that thing is that’s reaching out from the toilet. If there’s anyone carrying the torch for Alejandro Jodorowsky, it’s Alex De...
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘Spring Breakers’ is…
Spring Breakers…is not the film people are expecting. Even cinephiles familiar with Harmony Korine‘s polarizing nature will be taken aback by the man’s newest creation. For one thing, it’s Korine’s...
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While SXSW Focuses on the Future, the SCMS Conference Keeps Our Cinematic...
On Sunday morning, I woke up feeling a combination of physical and mental exhaustion along with the exhilaration of having moved through an impossibly packed schedule. I had attended countless panels,...
View ArticleRob Thomas Needs You To Kickstart a ‘Veronica Mars’ Movie
Three years ago, I wrote a piece about why Warners needed to make a Veronica Mars movie. They didn’t. But now you can. Rob Thomas, the cult show’s creator, has launched a $2m Kickstarter project to...
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New ‘My Brother the Devil’ Poster Is Exclusively Covered in Praise
Do you think Sally El Hosaini‘s My Brother the Devil is any good? Not sure? Really? Why not just look a few lines up at the film’s new poster, which we’re pleased to exclusively debut here on Film...
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Casting Couch: Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Charlie Day, Jared Harris...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news roundup with the stiff upper lip, committed to carry on even as we lose Google Reader. Click through for news about what gentlemen like Robert Duvall,...
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‘Tomorrow You’re Gone’ Trailer: Sultry Michelle Monaghan, Dirty Stephen...
Apparently, today is Random Movies You Didn’t Know Existed That Star Michelle Monaghan Day in Trailerville so, on the heels of the diamond-encrusted trailer for Penthouse North, here comes a...
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Universal Buys an Original Sci-Fi Idea From the Writers of ‘Star Trek’
It’s true that a lot of Star Trek’s praise came from its stellar cast and the visual flare of its director, JJ Abrams, and that most of its criticisms came from the holes and coincidences in its plot,...
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Movie News After Dark: Let’s Not Stop at ‘Veronica Mars’
The doors are wide open for nerds to fund their own wish projects, Guardians of the Galaxy comes to the mainstream, Netflix goes 4k, David Copperfield’s secret warehouse is exposed and finally, the...
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Broken Projector Podcast: Kickstarter for Millionaires
Vimeo has launched a new distribution channel for creators, and a major studio is using Kickstarter. It’s been quite a week for the future of film financing. In this episode, we’ll talk with Vimeo VP...
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SXSW Interview: Vincenzo Natali Suffers for Originality
Genre filmmaker Vincenzo Natali takes a whipping for his taste. Up to now the director of Splice has only made original properties, no adaptations, sequels, or reboots. Natali may be adapting...
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Film Jockeys #14: Life On Mars
What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the...
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So Now ‘Pushing Daisies’ Might Hit Kickstarter
Lovingly tucked inside this thoroughly insightful interview with Rob Thomas upon the successful funding of his Warners-distributed Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign was a note about Pushing Daisies...
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SXSW Interview: Pat Healy Discusses the Pains of ‘Cheap Thrills’
Director E.L. Katz‘s Cheap Thrills was the first movie to get picked up for distribution at this year’s South by Southwest, and it’s also the third movie in a row actor Pat Healy has had at the...
View ArticleSFotD: Chan-kyong and Chan-wook Park’s iPhone-shot ‘Night Fishing’
Why Watch? Two years ago, Chan-wook Park announced that he was making a short film with his brother Chan-kyong shot entirely on an iPhone. At the time, he lauded the device for being portable, easy to...
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘Scenic Route’ Finds Power in Chemistry
On paper, Scenic Route sounds like a student film: two buddies on a road trip get stranded in the middle of nowhere, and have to come to terms with their differences, while facing the possibility of...
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A Smart Thriller Like ‘The East’ Deserves a Better Poster Than This
We are all just going to forget this poster for Zal Batmanglij‘s The East doesn’t exist (well, after we finish this post), because it’s a pretty poor example of the latest from the director and...
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Casting Couch: Dave Bautista Official For ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ Rose...
What is Casting Couch? A bunch of casting news, all in one place. Today we’ve got more news about that YA adaptation, Divergent, as well as a possibility for what the king of YA adaptations, Robert...
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