Since his emergence on Channel 4 in 2000, Sacha Baron Cohen has entertained and shocked the world with his unpredictable antics, as he impersonated three distinct personalities: youth show host and wa... ...More

The first people you encounter on arriving at the Golden Globes as a guest are not the stars. They aren't even the security. They're the protesters. And this year, the first to wave his placard at the... ...More

A post, on another site, related the story of a screenwriter’s Kindle adventure, so I thought ‘why not’. 
I have taken two of my screenplays and converted them into Nove... ...More

The Daredevil Drug Runner.
Production Journal Extract.
I discovered the Production Journal written by Tim Riding, one of the producers at Raw TV, London. It is very interesting reading and provi... ...More

It was winter, 2007 when I was extradited from France to Spain. After first being incarcerated in the Douai dungeon, I was transferred to Fresnes prison near Paris. Fresnes is notorious for being the ... ...More

9 am: An interview with Andrew Garfield
Andrew has recently starred in the British film, Never Let Me Go, alongside Carry Mulligan and Kira Knightly. This young, solemn and articulate actor rose fr... ...More

8 am. Following a breakfast at Four Seasons hotel, the stars of the new Ben Affleck's film “The Town,” marched one by one to talk about it. There was Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner Rebecca Hall, Blake live... ...More

I rushed to Marriott Yorkville hotel, where I checked in and dropped my packages. In my room, I found a gift bag from Warners, welcoming me in Toronto. It was nice, but I didn't’t have time to open it... ...More

The start of 2010 has proved to be incredibly hectic for Leigh & Rebecca. After just developing a new arrangement of The Goonies for Silva Screen Records and The City of Prague Philharmonic in January... ...More

9 July 2010 (UK) Every seven years a tournament takes place in an unsuspecting town where 30 of the world's deadliest killers battle to see who is best and for the ten million dollar cash prize. Retur... ...More

It’s fascinating to meet people that are in the public eye and find something completely different to what you expected. What a nice guy Darnell is and believe me he’s tuned in alright, devoted to his... ...More

Project Involve fellows, glamorously dressed, arrived in their unglamorous cars to the Vanity Fair party in Western Hotel, Beverly Hills, where our short films would be screened, and then the winning ... ...More

For the last four days the location of our latest photography job has been a film set in Northern Lincolnshire. We were contacted a while ago by a film production company, Blueprint Film, to provide f... ...More

We’ve just returned from a month in Tajikistan shooting a series of documentaries and photographs for Nur NGO. There will be an exhibition of the photos to coincide with the launch of the Nur NGO webs... ...More

Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire in Wales is one of the settings for the filming of the penultimate movie in the Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The beach has been used t... ...More

Jon has been in the Hollywood system, since 1982. After graduating from the USC film school, he wanted to direct, but for financial and practical reasons he ended up Editing, and he never regretted it... ...More

We were invited by Fox studios, in West LA, to attend a screening of a Fox film, “La Misma Luna”, and a lunch with the writer/producer Ligiah Villalobos and Fox’s Programming Vice president, Gabriel M... ...More

Since we are now ready to embark on making our shorts, Line Producer, Chris Stinson, came to advice us on producing them.
Chris talked about breaking down the budget, obtaining permits for location... ...More

Radium's creative director, Andrew Diey, has contributed an article to New Media Age magazine where he discusses digital agencies wake up to the power of sound in web advertising.
[http://www.nma.c... ...More

This evening, Director Rodrigo Garcia (Nine lives, Sopranos), Actress Michelle Forbes (Kalifornia, Swimming with Sharks), Actor David Norona (Six feet under), and Casting directors Libby Goldstein and... ...More

I received an email from a colleague telling me that Mike Leigh has mentioned my encounter with him in his blog in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/25/mike-leigh-oscar-diary...More

Fellows from Project Involve and other Film Independent labs were invited to Universal studio for a presentation and a Cocktail reception.
We were welcomed by Publicists and executives from NBC/Uni... ...More

It’s one day before the Oscar’s ceremony and the parties are in full swing in Hollywood.
It began with a DreamWorks brunch at Campanilla in La Brea to honour the Animation Academy nominees. I arriv... ...More

Today, fifteen scripts have been selected as finalists for PI shorts. Alas, my scripts were not selected.
Reading the selected scripts, I could see that they bear the spirit of French New Wave cine... ...More

There was a long line of hopefuls, who were eagerly awaiting the screening of the 2009 Oscar-nominated short films, in front of the Academy headquarters in Beverly Hills.
My colleague, Jason Korsne... ...More

A crisis!
We were called for a meeting with Josh Welsh, the head of Talent Development at Film Independent.
In the meeting, Josh announced that our Sponsors, particularly Banana Republic, have ... ...More

January was an intense month. We started with a workshop with Casting director, Nicole Arbusto (Stephanie Daley, Philadelphia). We were asked to submit a scene from our features in order to workshop i... ...More

Dec 10th, 2008 – Film independent offices (LA)
Ten of us were invited to pitch our projects to Oscar-winning director and producer Peggy Rajski.
Before we arrived to the pitching session we wer... ...More

A Fox Searchlight party for Slumdog and the Wrestler
I can’t remember the name of the restaurant, but it’s located in Beverly Hills and has an impressive back garden, where the party was held.
T... ...More

The month starts with a workshop with Joans Checkel, one of the leading mentors in Hollywood. Her labs provide an opportunity to put a film on its feet prior to production. Directors, writers, actors... ...More