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 ...
"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 [...]...
Having recently found out that Martin Scorcese's Shutter Island, starring Leo DiCaprio, will not come out until February, this beautifully elusive little te...
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...
Namely the Internet, according to Ferrara, who screened his 1992 indie film Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel, at Anthology Film Archives this past we...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 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.