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The True Spy Story Behind Argo
The internal CIA account of how the Iran rescue really went down. BY NATE JONES In the final scenes of the "nail-biting political thriller" Argo -- the true story of how the CIA safely whisked six U.S. Embassy staffers out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis -- a...
Netflix Executive Upends Hollywood
A scene from "Lillyhammer," Netflix's first original series, is projected behind Ted Sarandos, the company's chief content officer. Sarandos says ratings are irrelevant for a company that neither courts advertisers nor collects fees for cable or satellite TV...
James Wan scores at box office with next chapter
by Garry Maddox Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson star in Insidious. As a horror movie by an Australian director topped the American box office charts on the weekend, there was an impressive debut for a Saudi Arabian film by a director who trained in Sydney. James Wan's...
George Clooney accuses activist Dan Loeb of manipulating film market
August 05, 2013 George Clooney says fund manager Dan Loeb is a 'carpetbagger'. George Clooney has accused a major investor in Sony of trying to undermine the company's movie business. George Clooney has slammed billionaire US hedge fund manager Dan Loeb for being a...
The Mobile Approach To Films
There's only one problem with Jason van Genderen's mobile phone - sometimes people call him on it. For a specialist in shooting films with a smartphone, unexpected calls or texts are a sudden interruption to working. ''The camera stops recording and there's usually a...
We Must Film Tales Of Our Sunburnt Country
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby by Gay Alcorn That The Great Gatsby may become the most successful Australian film speaks more of tax breaks than anything else. I went to see an Australian film this week. It was The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of...
The other side of the Trek
by Paul Byrnes Meet the man who has boldly gone where everyone has gone before. J.J. Abrams is the new hope of Hollywood, at least when it comes to reviving the old Hollywood, the one that began with Star Wars. Click here to view our full movies coverage He has just...
The 48 EcoFilm Challenge 2013
The 48 EcoFilm Challenge - In May 2013, the Challenge launches as an international event currently offered to over 50 cities around the globe. It is open to all filmmakers from all cultures, interests and walks of life; from first timers to professionals, all are...
TV pilots turn to net, not networks
by Brian Stelter In the television pilot that Cheyenne Jackson taped recently, he played an aggressive young news anchor whose ascendancy threatened an older colleague. It was a fitting metaphor for the industry itself, because while Jackson had taped pilots for ABC,...