American films continued to be abundantly produced, and longstanding animation director Don Bluth released the science ...
You know what it’s like when you have a problem, or maybe a few of them, and they start to interlock and overwhelm you, and you’re frozen and can’t take action, until hope seems to be fading or maybe ...
Looking back at Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker, fans must remember films in this universe have complicated legacies. There is, of course, the narrative substance of the movie, but they ...
If you want to know how the box-office numbers work, then you need to sit for this one. What even qualifies a film as a hit, and why does one movie make billions while another barely scratches its ...
Jessie Maple began work on Will, a spirited tale about addiction and community ties in contemporary Harlem, in the late ‘70s. The project was completed in 1981 and is widely recognized as the first ...
When Severin co-founder and CEO David Gregory signed the deal to release five Russ Meyer movies, he had caught his white whale — and it has one hell of a rack. For years, the filmography of Meyer has ...
The films “Sid and Nancy,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” don’t seem to have much in common. Neither do “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” “Dead Man Walking,” and “Skyfall.” The bond ...
The 38th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival hosted an animation symposium exploring the state of the medium and the industry around it. One talk in particular took on a meta topic: how ...
This year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off with Gerard Depardieu‘s 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assault on two women during the filming of “The Green Shutters.” While that case itself has ...