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By Chris Hood (This is Part Fourteen of an ongoing series to help educate aspiring filmmakers on the process of making their first film Previous articles in this series can be found at BleedingCool.com and MovieIndustry.com) Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 After thirteen articles imbuing priceless advice on how[...]

How Rise of the Planet of the Apes led to the events to be chronicled in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the focus of a new featurette/viral video released for the Matt Reeves sequel. The Simian Flu, inadvertently created by the CDC in the first film, quickly becomes a worldwide pandemic, and five[...]

To celebrate the release of Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel next Tuesday, Fox Searchlight hired this guy and his crew to build the iconic hotel from the film out of LEGO bricks. No, Lego isn't coming out with a Grand Budapest Hotel set (it would be my first purchase of a Lego set if they[...]

Five years ago, Dreamworks optioned the as-then-unpublished children's book Dinotrux by Chris Gall for a cool half a million dollars, showing the

We've got a couple more Phoenix Comic Con panels from Nai Wang (check out his youtube page for more). Here we have the panel with Stan "The Man" Lee (with

Deadline reports Guillermo del Toro has now dropped out of directing Beauty, the version of the classic fairy tale he had written and had attached Emma Watson to star in two years ago. Watson is still attached, and del Toro is still "firmly" part of the movie, with his script still in place and the filmmaker[...]

More ass-kicking and an unexpected Hemingway analogy.

Problem is, Warner Bros Pictures was still negotiating with the actors for those cameos and future roles, meaning major contracts for multiple JL/character films to follow The studio didn't want to move forward until they had more of this secure so they held off starting production for a few months Seemingly simple reason, but the[...]

Alejandro González Iñárritu takes on the black comedy genre, with surreal and pretty amazing looking results.

Can you tell them apart? Tom Hardy is pulling double duty for his next film and here's the first official image released from Brian Helgeland's Legend, about the infamous Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who ran the London criminal underworld in the 1960s. I don't know who's supposed to be who The guy on the right[...]

By Christopher Helton The FilmBundle website is a relatively new entry into the "humble bundle" scene Specializing in indie movies, the site has recently launched their first bundle with a music theme Like all bundles of this sort, a portion of the proceeds goes to charity, in this case the music-related charities of Little Kid Rock[...]

basically what you might expect from the guys who did Pineapple Express and This is the End and that mock Kanye West video.

We've got some more panel coverage from the Phoenix Comic Con by Nai Wang. This time we have Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle), Mark Sheppard (Dr Who,

By Gary Turner Last time we took a look at the Black Panther. I do actually agree with HalfMadJesus. In hind-sight T’Challa is deserving of an origin

Haspiel's story is unusual in that he's had a longstanding interest in the live performance of stories, studied film at college, and has seriously considered screenplay writing as another creative area to pursue in his life And yet, there's an unmistakeable accent here in Switch to Kill for those who are familiar with Haspiel's Billy[...]