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Chinese directors pay tribute to quake-hit city

BUSAN, South Korea – In the same style as the anthology films "New York, I... more

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Finding Meaning Without Manufacturing Meaning

The search for meaning is one of life’s continuing journeys. The suspicion that... more

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Dr. Earl R. Smith II

I serve as a strategic adviser and on boards of directors and advisory boards. I... more

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Battle at the Cottage Gate

I sometimes work with companies that are on the verge of leaving the ‘cottage... more

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Presenting to Early Stage Venture Capitalists: A Few Things to Remember

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The Elevator Speech – What Is It Good For?

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Amazing Pace: Turbo-Charged Business Development

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Brendan Gleeson wins Emmy award in US

Irish actor Brendan Gleeson has picked up an Emmy award in the US for his portrayal of... more

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Chat with "Big Fan" Director, Robert Siegel

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The Best Director / Rapper Demo Reel Ever

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What really happens on a film set

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Interview with Gigantic Director Matt Aselton at NewFilmmakers L.A. Film Festival

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Kill 'Em All - Two Brand New Inglourious Basterds TV Spots!

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Terry Gilliam's next project scrapped.

Terry Gilliam's next project, the twisted Zero Theorem, is officially on the scrapheap. Which means it could be years and years until we see more original science fiction coming from the warped Gilliam mind.

In an interview with fansite Dreams, Gilliam explained how his next big science fiction project, about a cubicle zombie, with Billy Bob Thorton attached, is now dead in the water. The delay in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus along with the prep work needed for his next project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote seems to be the culprit:

I thought I could do it quite quickly and cheaply, and that would be a nice one, rather than getting caught in more expensive, more complicated or hard-to-finance things. But the year just got swallowed up by Parnassus and publicity, and preparation for Don Quixote. I just didn't think it would be viable and I pulled the plug earlier this year.

This makes us sad, because more people should be giving Gilliam time and money to make tripped out mind blowing scifi, plus we hate to see original work get pushed aside for endless remakes.

Here is the long synopsis of Zero Theorem from Voltage Pictures:

Qohen Leth, a socially maladjusted "cubicle zombie" with a genius for computer work, is waiting for a phone call. His entire life has been consumed with the wait for this call. He doesn't know the nature and origin of the call, but he knows it will provide him with the purpose that he has long lived without.

Qohen is given a special project by his corporate managers. His task is to solve a mysterious theorem that has stumped, and mentally broken, the long list of computer geniuses that were previously assigned the job.

Living in an Orwellian corporate world where "mancams" serve as the eyes of a shadowy figure known as Management, Qohen works on a solution to the strange theorem while living in isolation in his home-the shattered interior of a fire-damaged chapel.

His isolation and work are interrupted by a gorgeous, sexy woman who has recently befriended him named Bainsley. They communicate and make love via a tight, translucent, red virtual reality suit. An unlikely torrid romance develops, in which Bainsley has gotten Qohen to open up and come out of his shell like never before.

Qohen is occasionally visited by Bob, the rebellious whiz-kid teenage son of Management. These visits seem to be orchestrated by Management to keep control of Qohen's progress on the project. But Qohen and Bob become friends, and start to dig deeper into the meaning of the Zero Theorem. Bob lets it slip that Bainsley has been hired by Management to help control him, and, as a result, when Bainsley earnestly tells Qohen she's going to run away and pleads with him to come with her, he coldly rejects her.

As work on the project reaches a critical point, it becomes clear that the key to both the theorem's final solution and the source of a much-awaited phone call actually reside within Qohen himself. He holds the answer to the theorem and his own long-awaited epiphany. Bob modifies the virtual reality suit and creates a program that will carry Qohen on an inward voyage, a close encounter with the hidden dimensions and truth of his own soul, wherein lie the answers both he and Management are seeking. The suit and supporting computer technology will perform a sort of inventory of Qohen's soul, either proving or disproving the Zero Theorem.

But the program doesn't work and Qohen must find the answer within himself, as no machine can truly search the human soul. Qohen is now able to solve the Zero Theorem and find the meaning of his life. He burns the church and takes off with Bob on a search for Bainsley, the one person who has given his life true meaning.

He's a good director, with movies like Tideland, Fear and Loathing, Brazil, and 12 Monkeys this guy should be doing more work.Terry Gilliam's next project, the twisted Zero Theorem, is officially on the... more

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Women Directors Take Broadway

"This has been something of a banner year for female directors in New York, a development that wouldn’t be worth noting if it weren’t so rare. In July alone three new Off Broadway shows directed by women (including Ms. Ivey) are beginning previews. On Broadway eight shows last season — a record — had a woman in charge, with most of them garnering outsize praise for their work. “Hair,” directed by Diane Paulus, won the Tony for best musical revival this month, for example, while Phyllida Lloyd is one of the few directors — male or female — to have two shows running simultaneously (“Mamma Mia!,” which has raked in a fortune over the last eight years, and the new entrant, “Mary Stuart,” which earned Ms. Lloyd a Tony nomination).

“It’s getting better and better,” said Ms. Ivey, 57, during a break between rehearsals. The fourth-floor studio is air-conditioned to ice-cream store temperatures, so she wears a lime-green scarf wrapped around her neck. On her feet are colorful tapestry slippers. How often, she asked, do middle-aged women without an Olympic-type record get a crack at directing a show? “I feel that’s what Second Stage is doing for me,” Ms. Ivey said. She has directed a few plays in recent years but no musicals before this new version of Jack Heifner’s 1976 show. “They are giving me a chance.”

That chance, however, is something that does not come as easily or as frequently for female directors as it does for their male counterparts, many people in the theater contend.

Leigh Silverman, 35, who directed “Well” on Broadway in 2006 and the musical version of Neil Gaiman’s children’s tale “Coraline,” which is running Off Broadway, is optimistic about the uptick in directing jobs for women. “I think it is really exciting,” she said. “There were multiple women nominated for Tonys this year. In the short range it’s incredibly encouraging.” Still, she maintains: “It’s not a level playing field. There is no parity.”

Pretty much everyone in the business is quick to acknowledge that with so much money at stake, it’s understandable that producers want to work with people they know, and with people who have already had box-office success. Such established directors are generally men.

“It’s a self-perpetuating circle,” Ms. Paulus, 42, said after slipping into a recent matinee of “Hair.” “That’s why I’m so grateful to Oskar Eustis,” the artistic director of the nonprofit Public Theater, who hired her to direct the initial production that ran in Central Park last summer. “He has opened the Public up to the next generation of artists. He said, ‘Who are the young directors, the up-and-coming directors I need to meet?’"""This has been something of a banner year for female directors in New York, a... more

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Interview With 27-Year-Old George Lucas

This extremely rare one hour interview with George Lucas was conducted by film... more

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Making Movies with Orson Welles

"Making Movies with Orson Welles" was written by cinematographer Gary Graver... more

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Must Watch: Red Band Trailer for Park Chan-wook's Thirst

Focus Features has debuted the official US trailer for Park Chan-wook's Thirst... more

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