Doing Distribution Right
Despite battling the pressures of a fast-paced society that demands attention and decision at a superficial glance, Randolph Kret, Shaun Hill and the rest of the six-person staff of Indican Pictures...
View ArticleRandolph Kret & Shaun Hill: Things We’ve Learned as Moviemakers
Make friends in the industry instead of trying to kill the competition. You’d be surprised how many times a filmmaker helps another filmmaker get a job. Besides, you never know which person you’ve met...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Don’t take it too seriously. The chances of getting rich from an indie movie are so slim that you might as well consider it to be zero, so instead have some fun doing it. Art is long. Movies are short....
View ArticleGnomeo, Gnomeo, Wherefore Art Thou Gnomeo?
It took three weeks, but the garden gnome-themed Shakespeare adaptation Gnomeo and Juliet finally made it to the top of the box office after spending its first two weekends at number three. It earned...
View ArticleLiving in Emergency Premieres Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, has spent 38 years providing free emergency medical care to countries devastated by war. On Monday, December 14, the first-ever uncensored,...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: Year One
directed by Harold Ramis PG-13; 97 minues When a couple of misfit cavemen with names that match their I.Q’s, Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are booted out of their village, they start out on...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: Terminator Salvation
directed by McG PG-13; 115 minutes 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...
View ArticleZombieland Wins Box Office Crown
Apparently food-weather can only stay on top for so long before being defeated by zombies. Who knew? Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs had been in the number one spot since its release two weeks ago,...
View ArticleNew Moon Stays Strong at Box Office
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. Director Chris Weitz’s...
View Article2012 Destroys the Competition
Roland Emmerich’s disaster flick 2012 took the number one spot at the box office this weekend, earning $65 million in its first week of release. Robert Zemeckis’ computer animated family-friendly A...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: X-Men Origins—Wolverine
directed by Gavin Hood PG-13;107 minutes Back in 1845, little Jimmy Logan found out that Victor Creed was his brother. As the years passed, Logan (Hugh Jackman) and Creed (Liev Schreiber) fought...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: Watchmen
directed by Zack Snyder R; 163 minutes In an alternate universe it’s 1985 and in the fifth term of Richard Nixon the Cold War with Russia is getting hotter. A second generation of Watchmen, costumed...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: The Soloist
directed by Joe Wright PG-13; 117 minutes One day while walking through a park, Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), always on the lookout for a good story to fill his daily column in the Los Angeles...
View ArticleHow They Did It: The Last Lullaby
Imagine we all have times in our lives when we look back and wonder where we got the courage to do something out of our comfort zones. Raising the money for The Last Lullaby is one of those moments for...
View ArticleBattling the Blockbusters
Summertime means summer movies: Big and loud sequels, remakes and franchise-starters. So where does that leave independent movies? Those micro-budgeted affairs that traffic in nuance and feelings, not...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: Valkyrie
directed by Bryan Singer starring Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh & Terence Stamp PG-13; 120 minutes The is the true story of the 15th and final—and certainly the most...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: Taken
DVD Release: May 12, 2009 PG-13; 133 minutes He loves his daughter very much, never missing her birthday. But Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a specially skilled government spy, was hardly ever around. His...
View ArticleVideo Views Pick: Revolutionary Road
directed by Sam Mendes DVD Release Date: June 2, 2009 R; 119 minutes When they met at the close of World War II, April (Kate Winslet) was an aspiring actress. Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) had no ambition,...
View ArticleTransformers Sequel Easily Claims Box Office
Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen smashed records at the box office with a five-day total gross of $201.2 million. The sequel to 2007’s Transformers, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan...
View ArticleWolverine Premieres in Tempe, Arizona
L to R: Wolverine cast members Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Liev Schrieber, Lynn Collins and Will.i.am attend the world premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Harkin’s Theaters Tempe...
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