The Studio Debt: What Stephen Sommers’ Life Must Be Like
What must the guy in the photo above thinking? He's got a studio hit (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) on his hands and a license to make whatever he wants; as ...
Dan Mecca
The Good Thief: The Legacy of Quentin Tarantino
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." Many have said it, many more have employed it in their work. Shakespeare took many of his plays' plots from popular vocal stories and historical figures, Picasso took from African art styles (allegedly) and Brian De Palma continues to take from Hitchcock [...]...
Chris Nolan’s Inception Teaser
Having recently found out that Martin Scorcese's Shutter Island, starring Leo DiCaprio, will not come out until February, this beautifully elusive little te...
Paramount Pushes Shutter Island To February
In a move that this writer can only characterize as something of a Shakesperean tragedy, Paramount Studios has made the decision to move the Martin Scorcese...
Abel Ferrara on the “Knife in the Back” of Indie Film
Namely the Internet, according to Ferrara, who screened his 1992 indie film Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel, at Anthology Film Archives this past we...
Hamm, Hall join Affleck-led ‘The Town’
As reported by Variety, Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall of Vicky Cristina Barcelona have joined The Town, a love triangle heist comedy to be directed Af...
Return of the King Kong?
Without Peter Jackson it appears. According to this nice little ditty over at Total Film, a script is out there written by two guys named Joe DeVito and Bra...
Raimi Plans to Craft War
Wondered when they would finally make a World of Warcraft movie?
If the answer is no, stop reading because that's exactly what's going on in Hollywood t...
The Remake List: The 5 Worst, The 10 Best
(Co-Written by Dan Mecca & Merrill Barr)
It only seems appropriate to offer a take on what is now the most popular genre in Hollywood - the remake. Not t...
[Spotlight On] The Late (Great) David Foster Wallace
While the news that John "Jim Halpert" Krasinski's directorial debut, the indie Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, was bought by IFC Films (to be distribute...
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.