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The Top 10 Highest Paid Actors in Hollywood 6 Jun 2012 | 10:39 pm
1) Leonardo DiCaprio: July 2010 to July 2011 Earnings: $77 million After a string of fantastic film choices, Leonardo DiCaprio has gone from strength to strength. After cashing in on blockbusters such...
Three Awesome Hobbies I Just Made Up 4 Jun 2012 | 01:27 pm
There was a time when the human race lived on a subsistence level. They moved rapidly between looking for food, eating the food, running away from predators and trying not to freeze to death. Any time...
Five of the Greatest Sci-Fi Movies of All Time 2 Jun 2012 | 04:13 am
The science fiction genre can trace its roots back to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” and movies delved into this topic early with Georges Melies’ “Le Voyage dans la lune.” In the 110 years after that ...
Top 5 Worst B Horror Film Insect Monsters 29 May 2012 | 02:59 am
The 1950s was a decade of b horror flicks- cheaply made movies meant to be shown at the drive-in, giving teenagers the creeps while they necked in the front seat of their cars. Among some of the most ...
Does Digital Copyright Stifle Creativity? 29 May 2012 | 02:51 am
Where do you sit on the digital copyright vs. free content and open source debate? 2011-2012 has seen a lot of landmark developments and influential business decisions across various entertainment ind...
Film Producer Commentary – Fairy Tales 27 May 2012 | 03:17 am
Suddenly it appears everyone is producing fairytale shows. There’s Once Upon A Time on ABC, Mirror Mirror the feature starring Julia Roberts, Snow White and the Huntsman, Grimm (now into Season 2) and...
How To Survive As An Indie Filmmaker 15 May 2012 | 02:01 am
Finding distribution and pre-sales deals was once a feasible task, but not so much any more. Over the years the promise of financing and production for indie films has dramatically faded, and filmmake...
Film Producer Commentary – The Walking Dead 19 Apr 2012 | 03:03 am
My 12 Feature Filmography Despite my long filmography in the genre, having produced many horror films, it doesn’t automatically imply that I always enjoy them, or for that matter that they are that ea...
The Screenwriter’s Armoury 19 Apr 2012 | 02:23 am
The ability to write a highly polished and professional script doesn’t come easy to anybody. It takes years, decades in fact, to master the craft. Indeed, mastery of that craft requires the mastery of...
Five of the Greatest Movie Villains of all Time 18 Apr 2012 | 02:13 am
They are the film characters everyone loves to hate. They terrify us, leave us scared witless and have us perched on the edge of our seats in the cinema or in our living rooms, yet we also find movie ...