
Last night saw a feminist protest invade the premiere of a pro-feminist film, setting off smoke flares and trespassing on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square. Police declined to make a single arrest and it has now been revealed the
by Liam Deacon8 Oct 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

Showing an Iranian-made movie on the life of Islam’s Muhammad is a sacrilegious endeavor, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh, said this week.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Sep 2015, 10:02 PM PST0

Rusty Griswold is all growed up. Oddly enough, though, he’s no longer the cool, self-assured Anthony Michael Hall we met in 1983. He is now Ed Helms, a sweet-natured bumbler just like his dad Clark, the iconic character portrayed by
by John Nolte31 Jul 2015, 7:31 AM PST0

William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director of The French Connection, has dismissed modern superhero and sci-fi movies for dominating the industry, and says they lack substance.
by Kipp Jones16 Jun 2015, 9:33 AM PST0

In a movie-world before superheroes and comic books and franchises and universes, Concept was King, and in 1990 author Michael Crichton came up with a doozy. Imagine, Crichton fantasized, that a mosquito drew blood from a dinosaur and then got
by John Nolte11 Jun 2015, 8:13 AM PST0

Barry Navidi—who produced the Al Pacino vehicles, “The Merchant of Venice,” “Salome,” and “Wild Salome,” and is touring with Pacino’s current one-man show—spoke with Variety in Tehran during the International Urban Cities Film Festival. He asserted his excitement about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Iran because it will encourage fimmaking in Iran.
by William Bigelow1 Jun 2015, 10:08 PM PST0

Director Brad Peyton’s summer disaster epic “San Andreas” is filled with plenty of eye-catching, cutting-edge CGI spectacle, the cartoonish kind Hollywood has been conditioning us for years to accept and, at least in my case, surrender to. The human story,
by John Nolte29 May 2015, 7:17 AM PST0

Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea a “Poltergeist” remake was coming. So it was just a coincidence that after a number of years, I popped the 1982 original into the DVD player. Obviously, the hope was for
by John Nolte22 May 2015, 6:33 AM PST0

Faced with the daunting task of a follow-up to his critically-lauded 2012 box office sensation “The Avengers,” writer/director Joss Whedon faced a lift as heavy as Thor’s hammer. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans),
by John Nolte1 May 2015, 7:31 AM PST0

On Thursday, The California Film Commission Board of Directors accepted California’s new tax credit program. The state of California, desperate to keep fleeing TV and film productions from leaving the state, tripled its annual budget for film/TV credits last summer, and now that the Film Commission has approved, will send the measure to the governor’s Office of Administrative Law for review and final approval.
by William Bigelow13 Feb 2015, 10:24 AM PST0

A new study reveals females only accounted for 12% of protagonists in the top 100 domestic box office hits of 2014, reports Deadline.
by Kelli Serio10 Feb 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

Authorities in Paris banned filming police and army-themed action scenes inside the city over the weekend, out of consideration that actors and high-speed car chases could be mistaken for the real thing.
by Kipp Jones5 Feb 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

The Sundance Film Festival begins this week and you know what that means: a coming onslaught of oppressive, non-stop coverage from the entertainment media about dozens of films no one will ever see … ever. Deadline published a fine illustration
by John Nolte23 Jan 2015, 10:38 AM PST0

Italian Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, is offering new legislation to ban cigarettes in national TV and film productions, leading 20 of country’s top film virtuosos to express outrage at the proposal.
by Kipp Jones23 Jan 2015, 8:57 AM PST0

In a Weekly Standard piece titled, “The ‘American Sniper’ Freakout: Why the Left Can’t Tolerate This Movie,” Mark Hemingway does a fine job of breaking down exactly why the Left either hates “American Sniper” or is dishonestly claiming it is
by John Nolte23 Jan 2015, 7:05 AM PST0

The science is now settled: Anti-American films are costly box office bombs at a rate of nothing less than 100%. On the flip-side, pro-American films make money. Many are outright blockblusters. Moreover, almost every the anti-American film produced over the
by John Nolte19 Jan 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

Only seven percent of Hollywood’s top films were directed by women in 2014, a new study by San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film reveals.
by Kelli Serio13 Jan 2015, 12:31 PM PST0