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03-08-2010
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At this past Sunday’s Academy Awards, independent cinema trumped traditional studio fare, with independent films winning 12 Oscars (excluding the short film categories), compared to the nine Oscars won by the major studios. The big winner of the night was Kathryn Bigelow’s independent production The Hurt Locker (produced by Voltage Pictures and distributed by Summit Entertainment), which won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. With The Hurt Locker’s win, the number of independent films to win the Best Picture Oscar in the last 30 years comes to 18.
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02-01-2010
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When More Than a Game director Kristopher Belman spoke to MovieMaker, the young director was on the tail end of a grueling world tour promoting the flick, but was kind enough to speak about traveling places where people don't know LeBron James (yet), turning his student short into a widely distributed feature and how a vicious LeBron dunk got him through a 48-hour editing session.
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01-29-2010
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In his eighth trip to Park City for the 2010 fest, editor Brian Kates saw his latest project Jack Goes Boating—a film from first-time director and Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman—get its world premiere. Kates took the time to tell MM all about working with Philip Seymour Hoffman the actor-director, his life at the Sundance Film Festival and the editing technique used in Avatar that he decided to try on Jack Goes Boating.
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01-25-2010
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The Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild both handed out their 2010 awards over the weekend. Who won, you ask? We've got the results.
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01-22-2010
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A long-time director of photography, Xavier Pérez Grobet has quietly become of of cinema's most intelligent and reliable cinematographers. With his newest movie, Mother and Child, screening in the "Spotlight" section at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grobet spoke with MM.
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01-21-2010
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To help you on your quest to find those corners of the Web where the most useful blogs reside, we have scoured the cyber world for our annual list of the 50 best blogs for moviemakers.
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01-21-2010
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced its nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced on February 21st.
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01-18-2010
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MM's 10th annual countdown of the best places to live, work and make movies.
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01-11-2010
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Eric Rohmer, the great French moviemaker, was a sly but sympathetic observer of human folly, forever attentive to the ways intelligent and articulate people tend to over-analyze everything, even their own emotions, and very often wind up talking themselves out of opportunities for happiness.
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01-11-2010
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For the fourth consecutive week, 20th Century Fox’s Avatar takes the number one spot and adds an additional $48.5 million to the blockbuster’s domestic gross, bringing the grand total to $429 million. How far behind Titanic is the blockbuster now?
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01-08-2010
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Michael Cera goes bipolar in a coming-of-ager, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe take on vampires and Amy Adams follows formula with a rom-com—it's genre weekend In Theaters Now!
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01-08-2010
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The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced yesterday that two Chinese films set to screen at the 2010 festival, City of Life and Death and Quick, Quick, Slow, have been withdrawn.
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12-15-2009
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So, by luck or sheer bribery, your movie somehow has made it into a festival. How is your film going to stand out in the crowd of all those other films that don’t deserve to be there nearly as much as yours? Answer: Promote the crap out of your movie. Actually, promote the crap out of your movie in a fresh and creative way.
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12-11-2009
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Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, has spent 38 years aiding countries devastated by war with free emergency medical care. On Monday, December 14, the first-ever uncensored, in-depth look at the organization will hit theaters nationwide in one of the more unique documentary screenings to date—featuring a post-screening Q&A session broadcast live to each theater.
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12-01-2009
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The last thing Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) remembers is his execution by lethal injection. Twenty-five years later, in 2018, he finds himself wandering around a desolate wasteland. Skynet, with its army of evil terminators, has destroyed most of the planet, leaving few survivors. He first encounters young Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and even younger Star (Jadagrace), who are soon captured by Skynet. Led by John Connor (Christian Bale), the resistance is struggling to conquer Skynet and save the world.
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11-30-2009
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Before you pick up your camera with dreams of a low-budget, handheld cult classic, remember that no genre is complete without its clunkers. Paranormal Activity is not necessarily the exception to the rule, but it's certainly set a standard that most films in the handheld genre had failed to reach prior. Here are the seven most memorable films shot in the first-person, handheld camera style—some memorable for the right reasons, others... not so much.
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11-30-2009
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To almost no one’s surprise, New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight series, held onto the top spot in its second week of release, earning $42.5 million over the weekend. But where did everyone else land?
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11-18-2009
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In 2004, moviemakers Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou made their film Take Out on a budget of $3,000 out of their own pockets. It went on to be a hit on the festival circuit, garnering two nominations and winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Nashville Film Festival.
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11-17-2009
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It was George Kirk who gave up his own life to save 800 others, including that of his wife and newborn son, James. It was Vulcan Ambassador Sarek (Ben Cross) who married a human (Winona Ryder) and fathered Spock.
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