After six years of annually spotlighting Hollywood's favorite unproduced screenplays, The Black List is expanding as a business brand and screenwriter community.
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If the film's half as alluring as the trailer, we might whip off our shirts and go buck wild, too. But the teaser isn't just about shiny effects--and chests. Here's a look at the geeky heritage behind the well-toned new Martian movie.READ»
If you’re a child of the ’70s, you can probably attribute a few nightmares (and fantasies) to Stanley Kubrick, whose impressive and disturbing oeuvre includes such cult faves as The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and 2001: A Space ...READ»
The directors of Magic Trip, a documentary opening today that details the legendary 1964 road trip by Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, faced a conundrum familiar to anyone trying to depict hallucinogenic, ...READ»
We’ve all noticed (OK, blatantly stared at) women whose good looks are spoiled by piles of makeup. (Watch The Real Housewives of Orange County for a parade of examples; seriously, these ladies wear false lashes to buy groceries.) ...READ»
The giant robots in the new Transformer movies are all computer-generated. The ear-rattling sounds, however, are 100% real. Right down to the tiger with emphysema playing Megatron. Really. READ»
How groundbreaking, genre-bending collage artist Marco Brambilla traded the Hollywood filmmaking machine for artistic freedom and found himself feted by the pop culture he satirizes. READ»
The auteur behind "Thumbsucker" and the newly released "Beginners" has perfected the art of making capitalism look beautiful, earning money off of corporate commercial work to support uncompromisingly artistic independent films. Let's call 'em "dependies."READ»
If you’re a big NASA freak, you know that the Cassini Solstice Mission to Saturn has produced some of the most striking imagery of outer space around, starkly minimal black-and-white photographs of moons and planetary rings and ...READ»
Great user-interface design doesn't kill complexity, it clarifies it. But even so, there's a fine line between empowering users and infantilizing them. Last week, Bloom's president railed against "the urge to make everything into one ...READ»
For those of you who’ve never had the pleasure of visualizing music, of watching it twist and turn and bend through the protean halls of space-time, allow Süperfad to fill what your imaginations (or your drugs) have cruelly ...READ»
Is there anything that flowcharts can't do? (Just search our archives: we think not!) Surely making a kick-ass movie requires a nimbleness of creative thought that could never be captured in a rote set of instructions -- we all saw ...READ»
Web video, especially comedy, works best when it's fast, cheap, and out of control: You get some friends together, bash out a few sketches on digital video, and pray for the gods of YouTube to anoint you with viral fame. Or does it? ...READ»
Why does Europe get all the cool stuff? Here in America, all we get from SyFy are bad monster-movie mashups; but in Germany, SyFy (or rather, its parentborg, NBC Universal) mounts innovative original fare like "The Witness," which ...READ»
Louie Psihoyos, who made last year's Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," recently sent the film about dolphin killing to every single resident of Taiji. Will "For Your Consideration" marketing ever be the same? READ»
Public health advocates have tried for years, but now celebs are taking matters into their own hands. As the Oscars approach, the Splash star is backing an anti-cigarette flick that shows screenwriters how to break the habit.READ»
