Long-time screenwriter and soon-to-be first-time director Akiva Goldsman has offered the leading role in his passion project Winter's Tale to the hot-then-c...
As films about film go, Daniel Schechter's Supporting Characters is relatively low-fi stuff. Concerning an editor named Nick (Alex Karpovsky), his assistant edi...
Mel Gibson is in talks to make a supporting appearance in Robert Rodriguez's upcoming sequel Machete Kills, starring Danny Trejo as the titular character. F...
The long-gestating 2007 Black List script The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, written by Matt Drake, is putting the final touches on its pre-producti...
If for no other reason than the sheer joy of watching longtime character actor Guy Pearce play out his version of Snake Plissken-cum-John McClane, the new silly...
Filmmaker Whit Stillman has made a mere 4 movies over the span of 23 years, his first three films grossing less than $15 million combined. His style of writing ...
After months of speculation and negotiation, we have our Grace Kelly. Nicole Kidman is in talks to play the famous, and famously beautiful, actress in Grace...
For a while there, it looked like Whit Stillman might have been relegated to forced retirement, after nearly a decade and a half of false starts on various ...
She wasn't there, and then she was, as though someone had decided she was to be the next indie "It" girl. And here she is, Greta Gerwig, to stay, continuous...
Liam Neeson, who most recently collaborated with power-producer Joel Silver and his Dark Castle banner on the actioner Unknown, may reunite with the man for...
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.
