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Romantic Rendez-Vous: Lincoln Center's love affair with French cinema continues
If it’s March in New York, it’s the next best thing to April in Paris for the area’s Francophiles and serious film fans (often the same people), as The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance again throw their annual “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” party of new films. More »
3Dragons: Producer Bonnie Arnold tames DreamWorks' latest CGI creatures
In the dog-eat-dog world of Hollywood, producers often have to fight hard to attach themselves to the hottest projects. But for Bonnie Arnold...all it took was a casual weekend conversation with DreamWorks Animation head honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg to land one of the studio's most coveted in-development titles, How to Train Your Dragon. More »
Summer sneak preview: Star vehicles and sequels lead a promising lineup
Iron Man, Robin Hood, The A-Team, Sylvester Stallone…the summer 2010 season has no shortage of macho heroes for moviegoers to cheer on. More »
The Best of times: MPAA's Dan Glickman prepares to move on
“Look, this is one of the great industries in the world—an industry that not only impacts the economy of the United States…but that also impacts people’s lives,” Dan Glickman, the outgoing chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), enthuses as if it were his first day on the job. More »
Ain't love grand...larceny: Requa & Ficarra capture true story of wild con artist
No, I Love You Phillip Morris is not an aggressively pro-nicotine sequel to Thank You for Smoking. More »
Berlinale buzz: Romanian and Russian entries highlight a wide-ranging festival
Screening the best films from around the world. That’s the lofty goal the Berlin International Film Festival set for itself since its launch in 1951. More »
DiCaprio on Scorsese: Star and director team for fourth time on mystery-thriller 'Shutter Island'
It’s been 19 years since Leonardo DiCaprio made his film debut in the instantly forgotten B-movie that was Critters 3, but since then the actor has grown in stature to become one of Hollywood’s hottest properties. More »
Wolfman in London: Joe Johnston resurrects a Universal horror legend
Werewolf? No, whenwolf…as in, when is director Joe Johnston's remake of the 1941 Universal classic The Wolf Man being released? More »
Lionsgate keeper: Mike Polydoros partners with exhibitors on busy slate
“My roots are in exhibition, and coming from movie theatres definitely helps in doing this job,” says Mike Polydoros, who not only handles in-theatre marketing at Lionsgate, but also oversees print control, digital cinema and related aspects of operations at the successful mini-major. More »
Watch out, Hollywood! India's Reliance MediaWorks becomes a worldwide force
Nestled in the foothills of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, sporadically visited by monkeys, snakes and the occasional tiger or leopard (not to mention the approximately two million visiting tourists per year) are the ghostly façades—closed to the public—of some of Bollywood's biggest production studios. More »
Extraordinary challenge: Tom Vaughan directs Ford and Fraser in inspiring true drama
Based on a Wall Street Journal article and subsequent book The Cure by Geeta Anand, Extraordinary Measures describes a race against time to develop a treatment for Pompe disease, a form of muscular dystrophy. More »
Envisioning Apparition: Bob Berney's new distribution banner gets off to a spirited start
With so much distress and uncertainty in the world of specialized distribution, it must be an “apparition” when a muscular new venture materializes in the foggy murk. But, already visible in theatres with impressive results, Bob Berney’s Apparition Films, a partnership with producer/entrepreneur Bill Pohlad, is hardly ghostlike. More »
From the archives: Roy Disney oversees the rebirth of 'Fantasia'
Roy Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney who was a guiding force in the revival of the Disney Company’s animation fortunes in the 1980s and 90s, died on Dec. 16 at the age of 79. FJI pays tribute with a reposting of our 2000 interview with Roy Disney for the premiere of his labor of love, Fantasia 2000. More »
Awards Watch: Directors Roundtable
In the last of The Hollywood Reporter's annual Awards Roundtable series, THR's Elizabeth Guider and Matthew Belloni gathered six A-list directors -- Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"); James Cameron ("Avatar"); Lee Daniels ("Precious"); Peter Jackson ("The Lovely Bones"); Jason Reitman ("Up in the Air"); and Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds") -- for a candid discussion of filmmaking at the highest level. More »
Be Italian! Rob Marshall convenes gallery of Oscar winners for Fellini musical 'Nine'
There was no shortage of directors on the London set of Nine. They came in all sizes, shapes and dimensions: the real, the reel and the creatively imagined. More »
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REVIEWS
Film Review: Green Zone
Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon translate their shock-and-awe Bourne stylistics to a stiff, uneven Iraq War actioner that's more anti-invasion wish fulfillment than ideas-driven drama. More »
Film Review: Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton's muddled take on the classic Lewis Carroll tale has moments of lucidity but mostly seems as confused as its titular heroine. More »
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