Movie Business

The Great 3D "Debate" Shouldn't Be a Debate at All

Richard Gelfond | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment


Richard Gelfond

The reason I'm optimistic about 3D this time around is that the greatest storytellers of our time -- Tim Burton, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg -- are embracing the format.

"Women Don't Go to Movies" -- Huh?

Nia Vardalos | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment


Nia Vardalos

A little-known fact: some studios recently decided to no longer make female-lead movies.

Fran Drescher for Senator Shmenator

Howie Greene | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics


Howie Greene

She's a cancer survivor. She's a great fundraiser. She speaks Spanish, Yiddish and some form of English. Fran Drescher is a lot of things -- but the next Senator from New York?

Oh, W, You Tease!

Thelma Adams | Posted 09.06.2008 | Entertainment


Thelma Adams

Oliver Stone's film apparently goes Freudian on W: In the trailer, Babe's James Cromwell as George Herbert Walker Bush reams out his unruly son: "Who do you think you are? A Kennedy?"

The Vision Behind Visioneers

Jared Drake and Brandon Drake | Posted 06.17.2008 | Entertainment


Jared Drake and Brandon Drake

After graduating, the film industry had one thing to offer us: a P.A. job at a production company. Instead, we scrapped together 20k from friends and family. Then, we wrote a script we could shoot for 20k.

The Double Standard

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment


Melissa Silverstein

It makes me angry that it is all on women to make SATC a hit. No other film has that burden. What the media and the marketing has done here is to really divide the sexes.

Strike Fears Grow As Hollywood Labor Talks Break Down

Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Halloween is looking scarier than ever for Hollywood. Studio executives and representatives of the Writers Guild of America abruptly ended talks Frid...