Dan Mecca

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The Future of Film Marketing

On Tuesday Stradella Road, a marketing company started by Gordon Paddison (ex-head of integrated and new media marketing at New Line Cinema), released the results of its "Moviegoers: 2010" study, which surveyed 100 people of various ages to get a feel for film marketing in today's times. [..]...
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Alba May Just Be A “Little Focker”

As reported by Variety, Jessica Alba is in talks to co-star in the third installment of the Meet the Parents franchise, Little Fockers. The film will bring ...
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Disney Chairman Steps Down

Dick Cook, the chairman at Walt Disney Studios for the last 38 years, has left "effective immediately," according to Variety. After a string of recent bo...
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Universal to Halt Development Until 2010

As reported in Variety, Universal Pictures has decided it "will not spend money for the rest of the year to advance development projects. Essentially, if yo...
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Hollywood Feasts on Hemingway

By way of actress/producer Mariel Hemingway (granddaughter of Ernest), Hemingway's posthumous Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast (published in 1964) is set to...
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[TIFF] Passenger Side, The White Ribbon

Passenger Side (Matt Bissonnette, Canada) This little indie comes on like gangbusters by way of comedy - the first 40 minutes consists of near constant sar...
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[TIFF] Broken Embraces

The most recent product of the Almodovar assembly line is Broken Embraces, a lush tragic romance starring an especially beautiful Penelope Cruz as Lena and ...

Dan Mecca

Managing Editor

Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.