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Matthew Vaughn has been one of the most interesting blockbuster directors in Hollywood since he broke out with 2004’s Layer Cake. The filmmaker said that while his new movie Argylle is about a writer desperately seeking a perfect ending to her story, that isn’t something that he regularly has to struggle with. In fact, he typically writes the ending early, and has to circle back around to flesh out the middle of a project. In an interview with ComicBook.com, he revealed that the only time he has really struggled with an ending, it was on one of his

Sundance 2024: “The things you’re seeing the studios make now are because those things were ventured for the independent space, both in films and in docs” Ankner says The post ‘Ponyboi’ Producer Mark Ankner Sees Film Festivals, Independent Filmmaking as the ‘Only Voice to Push’ Diverse Stories Forward | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

“What’s Up, Doc?” is a screwball comedy in which the late Ryan O’Neal plays a hapless man who gets caught up with an agent of chaos played by Barbra Streisand. It’s very funny and features one of the best chase scenes ever captured on screen. “I am a big fan of everybody in this movie, but I’m a particularly big fan of Ryan O’Neal’s job as Howard Bannister. I think it’s one of the great straight-man comedy roles,” Tarantino said, adding: 

“I think he’s really, really terrific. And as a matter of fact, it reminds me of something. I love ‘Bringing

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The nonprofit Chicken & Egg Pictures has announced the eight recipients of its Chicken & Egg Awards for 2024. From the press release:

Chicken & Egg Pictures, the organization dedicated to offering support and funding for women and gender-expansive documentary filmmakers, has announced more

And not only that, but you can also help the people who are going through this find some joy in the struggle and find some joy in the misery, and remind people that yes, despite the hardships, it’s important to laugh and it’s important to find joy. And so to me, I think that Hollywood Shuffle is probably the… I don’t know if it’s the first piece of satire that I saw, but I certainly know it’s the first piece of satire that had an effect on me. And I think that that effect became profound for me,

The beguiling tale of a middle-class Chinese family whose lives become affected by the arrival of a young adolescent in their midst, it’s a story that had been brewing for years before Lin committed it to film.

“What I remember was this feeling I was trying to capture of seeing family space as a mysterious space,” he says when we speak over Zoom.

“In Chinese, we have a saying: home sweet home. It’s always about how sweet it is. But for me, there is also this layer

Monkeypaw Productions, in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival® (TIFF) and the Universal Filmmakers Project, today announced that entry submissions have opened for NO DRAMA, a new initiative aimed at cultivating breakout filmmakers. Up to six writer-directors will be chosen to create short films with the goal of developing them into full-length projects with Monkeypaw and Universal Pictures.
From the mind of Jordan Peele, NO DRAMA asks filmmakers, “What’s your biggest fear? What monsters lurk in the deepest corners of your inner thoughts?” This reimagined installment of the Universal Filmmaker Project invites filmmakers to produce a project

Fleeting moments rushing into the unforgivable vortex of time, all of which would be lost forever if not for the presence of a camera, comprise Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s “Tendaberry,” a ravishingly lyrical portrait of both a single young life and a centuries-old locale converging in the present. These timelines collapse in Anderson’s debut feature, which flies with a formally unbound spirit, as fragments of lifetimes buried in photos and videos come together by way of idea association rather than strictly linear parameters. The

Monkeypaw Productions is partnering with the Toronto Film Festival and the Universal Filmmakers Project for the “No Drama” initiative, designed to cultivate new talent by selecting up to six writer-directors to create short films.

The unique aspect of the program is the potential for the shorts to be developed into full-length projects under the guidance of Monkeypaw and Universal Pictures.

“No Drama” is a global initiative