From Casablanca to Saving Private Ryan, the horrors and heroisms of World War II have provided decades of cinematic material. However, as director Fred Zinnemann masterfully demonstrated, meticulous exploration of the human experience—both immediately ... »
Longtime writing coach Jack Gilbert, who was director of the Warner Bros. Writers’ Workshop, died Monday of pneumonia. He was 62. Gilbert was also a teacher and mentor at Act One, which trains Christians for a career in the mainstream entertainment ind... »
Matthew Leavitt was once a neighbor of playwright Del Shores -- and the son of Shores' late producer. Now Leavitt is a playwright himself, and Shores is doing the producing -- of Leavitt's comedy The Boomerang Effect, at the Odyssey. Damaso Rodriguez i... »
One day before Harvey Weinstein’s films got 16 Oscar nominations, we sat down in Park City to discuss everything from the Oscar race to the slow pace of acquisitions at Sundance, to how important day-and-date theatrical and VOD releases will be to the ... »
Director David Cromer -- the talk of Chicago and Off-Broadway -- brings the longest-running staging ever of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town to Broad Stage, opening tonight. Helen Hunt as the Stage Manager will speak more or less to the inhabitants o... »
Here’s the official poster of the Academy Awards, unveiled this morning. The theme is “Celebrate the Movies.” Designed by Anthony Goldschmidt, and Mark and Karen Crawford of Blood&Chocolate, one-sheet features eight images of Oscar-winning movies spann... »
Longtime writing coach Jack Gilbert, who was director of the Warner Bros. Writers’ Workshop, died Monday of pneumonia. He was 62. Gilbert was also a teacher and mentor at Act One, which trains Christians for a career in the mainstream entertainment ind... »
