In 1989, the aspiring filmmaker Rolfe Kanefsky, who was then 19 years old, cobbled together $100,000 to make his dream movie. Thus, the first self-aware, meta-textual horror film was born.
Filmmaker George Lucas's "Star Wars" empire - the movie franchise, not Darth Vader's fictional galactic government - planted him firmly atop Forbes magazine's third annual ranking of the wealthiest U.S. celebrities which was released on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Kennedy Center Honoree and filmmaker George Lucas walks the red carpet before the Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2015.
Peter Jackson has used digital wizardry to conjure J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth and King Kong's 1930s New York, but he has now - in perhaps his most acclaimed film - employed all his technical powers to bring to life the Western Front of the first World War. Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" is the 57-year-old filmmaker's first documentary.
In 2015, Peter Jackson was feeling burned out - and you could hardly blame him. The New Zealand director had just finished work on the "Hobbit" films, wrapping up production on his supersized fantasy trilogy in a final sprint of 22-hour days that had left his energy depleted and his brain utterly fried.
Just 48 hours ago, James Wan says, he was climbing the steep and winding steps of the Great Wall of China - a relatively relaxing exercise compared with the 14-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week pace he'd been grinding away at for the last three months to cross the finish line with "Aquaman," the sixth film in Warner Bros.' $3.8 billion DC Extended Universe treasure chest.
No matter what your politics, Christian Bale is easily one of our greatest living actors, along with Daniel Day-Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Robert De Niro. And while his stunning performance as Dick Cheney in Vice isn't his best performance, it's certainly his greatest impersonation since his Sissy-Spacek-as-Carrie/Anthony-Perkins-as-Norman-Bates-level defining of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
James Wan's Atomic Monster is no longer producing the Resident Evil reboot, Bloody Disgusting has confirmed. Wan told the outlet: " They announce that I'm attached to a lot of stuff and a lot of them are not necessarily real.
It's like a scene straight out of Alfred Hitchcock's, "The Birds." But for this neighborhood, the horror doesn't end.