After an investor bailed, a 20-year-old filmmaker spent her entire college fund finishing her award-winning debut

Samuel Goldwyn Films Actress-turned-director Quinn Shephard was 20 when she made her debut feature film “Blame” in 2015. The movie went on to win the best actress prize at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and later found theatrical distribution. Shephard had to cash in her college fund to self-finance the movie after her sole investor […]

Was Radley Metzger Our Finest Erotic Filmmaker?

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. When Radley Metzger died in March, the news wasn’t followed by the thoughtful tributes and rapturous retrospectives that usually accompany the passing […]

Daily Podcast: Should Our Feelings About The Filmmaker Taint The Movie? Justice League, Tom Cruise, LotR & More

On the November 15, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest news, including the Rotten Tomatoes score and box office tracking for Justice League, Quentin Tarantino wants to cast Tom Cruise in his next film, what Christopher Tolkien resigning […]

‘X-Men’ Spinoff ‘Gambit’ Might Be Directed By ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Filmmaker Gore Verbinski

Remember Gambit? The X-Men character with the Cajun accent who throws exploding playing cards at people? He’s still getting his own spin-off movie despite several years of delays, and the film may have finally found a director: Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski. See the Gambit director details below. There has been talk of a Gambit movie kicking around for […]

The Filmmaker Behind the Explosive New Doc About the L.A. Riots

It was April 16, 2014, when fresh-faced director One9 and his writing/producing partner Erik Parker experienced the ultimate welcome-to-the-big-leagues moment. Minutes earlier, the newcomers had walked the red carpet at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, where their acclaimed hip-hop documentary Nas: Time Is Illmatic — a meticulous exploration of the making […]

Star Wars 9 director CONFIRMED: Guess which MAJOR filmmaker is replacing Colin Trevorrow?

Following the shocking news that Trevorrow was fired by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Star Wars fans have been wondering who would take over to direct Star Wars Episode IX. At first the most obvious choice was Episode VIII: The Last Jedi’s Johnson, who recently denied the rumours. However Lucasfilm have now released a statement confirming […]

Wildlife film-maker Gordon Buchanan on new BBC series Tribes, Predators & Me

Where is the series made?  We go to the Solomon Islands to meet the Shark People, who see sharks as spiritual animals. And we go to the Bodi tribe in Ethiopia to look at the relationship between people and hyenas. And what was your favourite place?  I loved Mongolia. I learnt how to hunt with […]

‘Crimea always been Russia’: award winning filmmaker Kusturica says during Peninsula visit

Published time: 24 Jul, 2017 01:07 Crimea’s reunification with Russia is an “organic” process, Serbian movie director, Emir Kusturica, told journalists in Yalta, saying, that those living on the Peninsula do not need approval from abroad to build their lives as part of Russia. “There are forces in the world that divide but on the […]