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Topic: Film

Information Diet: David Wain The 'Wanderlust' director enjoys curating news and notes on his iPhone but draws a line when it comes to games like Angry Birds

Specs Who David Wain Age 42 Accomplishments Writer/director of Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models and the upcoming Wanderlust (Feb. 24): creator/star of Web series Wainy Days, Hosted by My Damn Channel (available…

January 19 2012

First Mover: Paul Mazursky A Hollywood legend takes a crack at the one thing he hasn't done yet: film criticism

Why did you decide to do this? Graydon Carter sent me an email out of the blue saying, “Paul, I have a crazy idea. It would mean a lot to us,”…

December 12 2011

Fast Chat: Edward Burns The writer, director, and actor opens up about the upsides of digital distribution and small budgets

Leading up to the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of  Newlyweds, you extensively tweeted about its limited budget, $9,000. I get the feeling you like shoestring budgets. I absolutely love it. I…

October 03 2011

Hollywood Clichés Make for Sweet Infographics Festival ads chart the lines between a movie and a film

To promote the New York International Latino Film Festival, agency Wing New York has created a clever series of charts and graphics that illustrate Hollywood movie clichés, the underlying assumption…

August 23 2011

Relativity Media Teams Up With Chinese Partners SkyLand and Huaxia offer an in to elusive market

Relativity Media, the film studio responsible for producing Bridesmaids and The Social Network, is entering a partnership with Huaxia Film Distribution and SkyLand Film-Television Development, both Chinese companies. The move…

August 15 2011

Information Diet: Mark Duplass The star of 'The League' confesses his biggest indulgence: a very, very large TV

Adweek: What’s the first information you consume in the morning? Mark Duplass: Either Dora the Explorer or Ni Hao, Kai-lan. I have a 3-and-a-half-year old, and in the mornings she crawls…

May 26 2011

AdFreak's bloody collection of 'Saw' posters

In 2003, a group of Australian filmmakers created a 10-minute horror short that, within a year, would be fleshed out into one of the genre's most influential movies in a…

October 20 2010

Nothing sells bikinis like 'Star Wars' reading

This video offers a double fantasy for the Star Wars fanboy: women in skimpy bikinis reading the script, and Han shoots Greedo first. The video is part of a series…

August 17 2009

All-star spoof shows tender side of G.I. Joe

This might be the first Web video that stars bigger-name actors than the big-screen blockbuster it's spoofing. "The Ballad of G.I. Joe," a Funny or Die exclusive, shows us the…

August 12 2009

Robots spotted promoting movie worldwide

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has unleashed a conspiracy campaign through a series of worldwide robot sightings. A bot jumps off a soccer stadium in Rome. A scooter transforms in…

June 25 2009

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