Movie Business

In the weekend before the official start of the summer season, four new releases all debuted to numbers ranging from not awful to genuinely awful. The top film this weekend was once again Think Like a Man -- the ensemble romantic comedy has now earned $60 million

The motion picture industry, like all major American job creators, is part of a growing and interconnected world economy. But it might be surprising how important foreign movie theater audiences are to the millions of Americans who depend on the motion picture industry for their jobs.

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.

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

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?"

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.

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.