25 Great Extended Shots in Film History

By Mark Rozeman at 9:31 AM on May 1, 2013

From Hitchcock and Welles to Tarantino and Cuarón, here are some of the greatest examples of the long take in film history.  read more

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28 Great Movie Scores Written by Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop Artists

By Mark Rozeman at 10:50 AM on April 9, 2013

Whereas film scores were once exclusive to classically trained individuals like Bernard Herrmann and John Williams, the past 30 years has seen a major buck in that trend.   read more

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Focus Features to Acquire Film Rights to Neil Gaiman's New Book

By Mark Rozeman at 3:30 PM on March 1, 2013

Focus Features and Playtone Partners, the production company of actor/producer Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman, are currently hammering out a deal to acquire the rights to Neil Gaiman’s upcoming novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.   read more

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Anna Karenina

By Annlee Ellingson at 2:27 PM on November 26, 2012

Did we really need another Anna Karenina? Leo Tolstoy’s 1870s epic romance has been adapted for film and television a couple dozen times. Greta Garbo has played the title role. So has Vivien Leigh. And Sophie Marceau. And Jacqueline Bisset. It’s been made in Germany and Italy and Hungary and Argentina and India and the Philippines and, of course, Russia. There’s even an Arabic version....  read more

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Saoirse Ronan Signs On to Be Joe Wright's Teenage Assassin

By Lindsey Lee at 11:30 AM on January 14, 2010

Saiorse Ronan ruined her sister’s life in her breakout role as a young Briony Tallis in 2007’s Atonement, and her next project will see the angel-faced actress cast as a cold-blooded teenage assassin. Ronan (her first name is pronounced SEER-shuh) is in negotiations to star in Hanna according the Hollywood Reporter, which would reunite her with Atonement director Joe Wright. The movie tells the story of the titular character, a 14-year-old eastern European girl raised by her father to be a killing machine. When Hanna meets a French family who introduces her to a world beyond bullets and blood, she...  read more

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Joe Wright Eyes a Thriller

By Emily Riemer at 10:00 AM on November 25, 2009

Joe Wright is king of the epic, sweeping, often-period dramas that sometimes receive Oscar buzz. His filmography ranges from the acclaimed (Atonement) to the middling (The Soloist) to the D.O.A. (Indian Summer)....  read more

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Cate Blanchett's Indian Summer Gets Shelved

By Emily Riemer at 3:30 PM on October 27, 2009

Cate Blanchett’s latest film project, Indian Summer, has been fighting an uphill battle. Now it appears that the movie has been shelved for the forseeable future by the struggling Universal....  read more

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The Soloist debuts with powerful trailer and Oscar buzz

By Loren Lankford at 9:17 AM on September 15, 2008

It has finally arrived...the trailer for the much anticipated Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) film The Soloist, that is. And before you ask, no, it doesn't star Keira Knightley. ...  read more

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