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According to Box Office Mojo, Avatar has made over $2.5 billion worldwide to date. it made over $77 million domestically opening weekend. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has been out since Friday. It made over $116 million opening weekend, over $210 million worldwide.

When cinema first became a commercial enterprise, it [...]

The way films are promoted and marketed has been dramatically changed by the prevalence of film clips & reviews of top indie movies on the internet. The number of web sites and blogs devoted to independent films has grown. There are no longer barriers to entry in starting such an internet presence. With this new [...]

From Amy Butler's 'I write with pictures'  blog

It started snowing yesterday morning and kept on for 36 hours straight. Crazy amounts of snow. I'm starting to think about maybe considering not all that the weathermen say to be completely bogus.

If it's going to snow like this, it should be socially acceptable to play Christmas music.
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The main sticking point with dialogue in a screenplay, and something that tortures most beginning writers is how to make the words sound believable, even realistic, without sounding forced or too perfect. It's a fine line to walk between what real world speech sounds like as opposed to what movie dialogue sounds like, and [...]

“THE GHOST WRITER,” the 18th feature by Roman Polanski, opens this week, and, not for the first time in Mr. Polanski’s career, the movie itself is likely to be overshadowed by the man who made it.

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Roman Polanski

Critics and viewers have long been tempted to link Mr. Polanski’s work to his life — to view [...]

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Martin Scorsese with the director of photography Robert Richardson, left, on the set of “Shutter Island.”
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MARTIN SCORSESE’S dark, twisty detective thriller “Shutter Island” is set in 1954, in the full flowering of what W. H. Auden had, just a few years earlier, called the Age of Anxiety. “I don’t [...]

PARK CITY, Utah — The starkest picture to emerge from the opening days of this year’s Sundance Film Festival may be of an independent film business forced to stretch in untested directions because its old distribution model no longer works.

Standard operating procedure over the years at Sundance, the cinematic bazaar now under way in this [...]

Brent J. Craig/“Anvil! The Story of Anvil”; Alluvial Film Company
“Anvil! The Story of Anvil,” left, and “Ballast” are two movies
not distributed by a major studio.

LAST November inside a conference room at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a film consultant named Peter Broderick was doing his best to foment a revolution. [...]

This has become a common topic of conversation in the world of distribution for Directors and Producers.

There are several reasons for this, among them: a) More filmmakers are doing this and getting press, such as the "Four Eyed Monsters" team, as well as John Sayles with his last movie, "Honeydripper"; and b) More filmmakers are [...]

This article was written by Abhishek Agarwal.

“Finance is a very important and crucial part of film making. While many people pull you here and there explaining about this vast topic, where as they are all beating behind the bushes, here are some real facts about film making finances.

Every film maker at some point in his [...]