Amazon and IMDb Are Closing Withoutabox Film Festival Submission Service
The service will be operational through the next festival season, but be disabled on September 16, 2019.
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Luca Guadagnino On Directing Bob Dylan-Inspired ‘Blood on the Tracks’: ‘I Don’t Believe in Originality in Filmmaking’
Guadagnino explained why his new project, like “Suspiria,” wasn’t subservient to its source material.
‘Spring Night, Summer Night’: One Film’s Bizarre 50-Year Journey to Its Long-Delayed New York Film Festival Premiere
The astounding production brought Italian Neo-Realism to Appalachia, but distributors recut it as an exploitation film. Years later, Nicolas Winding Refn has restored it to its former glory.
IATSE Members Avert Strike That Was Looming Over Hollywood By Voting to Ratify 3-Year Contract
Editors voted 89 percent against ratification. It’s been three bumpy months for the union representing film and TV crew, but the fight for IATSE’s future has just begun.
Netflix Buys New Mexico Production Hub: Why Hollywood Is Sinking Billions Into Albuquerque
Did Netflix just disrupt every other studio from shooting in Albuquerque? Four big takeaways from yesterday’s deal.
A Not So ‘Private Life’: How Tamara Jenkins Invaded Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti’s On-Screen Privacy
The filmmaker behind the new Netflix drama tells IndieWire how she worked to make her audience feels like they live in New York (complete with becoming emotionally undone in public).
‘The Old Man & the Gun’: How David Lowery Brought 1970s Cinema Back to Life for a Modern-Day Robert Redford
Toolkit Podcast, Ep. 61: Lowery talks about his plans to make “the definitive ‘Peter Pan'” and the smaller film he’ll quickly make before production of the children’s classic.
‘The Other Side of the Wind’: How to Salvage an Unfinished Orson Welles Movie Without Orson Welles
Behind the scenes of the unprecedented restoration: How digital technology was used to solve an analog nightmare, Danny Huston ADR’ing his father’s dialogue, ILM effects shots, cracking Welles’ unique editing vision, and more.
Cary Fukunaga Wants to Screw with Your Expectations of Him As a Director, From ‘Maniac’ to Bond and Beyond
The “Maniac” director on his love for “Airplane,” his lifelong dream of doing a Bond movie, and how he transferred plans from “It” to his new Netflix series.
The Indie Film Preservation Crisis: We Are Losing the Films That Defined the ’80s and ’90s
Many movies are costly to preserve. Others have disappeared. It’s a problem no one saw coming.
How Self-Distributed ‘Thunder Road’ Made Its Money Back in One Week
The SXSW winner received global distribution offers of $100,000, an amount it doubled playing in 67 French theaters last week.
Editors Guild Launches Podcast Detailing Why the New IATSE Contract Is ‘Unacceptable’ for Film and TV Crew
There is still a possibility of an industry crippling strike this fall, hear from the voice leading the charge to vote “no.”
