DVDs are becoming the life’s blood of the Hollywood Film Industry. This interview with George Lucas’ co-producer Rick McCallum, is inspiration for all independent filmmakers. McCallum says, “I don’t think there’s a single movie that can survive on box office gross alone; it just doesn’t exist anymore,” says McCallum. “A theatrical gross can’t hack it… Continue reading

The bad news for POD continues, as this sober report in the New York Times illustrates. (That is, bad for the business as well as for the writers who hope to reach an audience on their own dime.)

David Thomson has a great piece on New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane (one of my favorite writers) in the New Republic. Now that John Simon is retired from National Review, Lane is the best critic in the English language. I did not realize he was English and that he actually flies over to screenings… Continue reading

British film star Christopher Lee was interviewed by Reuters here about his association with James Bond in the movies—and in real life. (Ian Fleming was his cousin.)

At ninety odd years of age, physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who coined the term black hole to describe collapsed stars years before they were discovered, continues to publish engaging papers in the mainstream science journals. His most recent offering, with Daniel Holz of UC Santa Barbara, suggests that scientists could use super-powered lasers to look… Continue reading