Shark POV: How ‘Jaws’ Improved On The POV Shot Used In ‘The Creature From The Black Lagoon’
Steven Spielberg borrowed the underwater POV shots from the 1950s Universal monster movie but eclipsed...
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‘Jaws’: The Monster Movie That Invented The Summer Blockbuster
How did a B-movie-type monster movie become a genre-defining blockbuster that changed modern film-making? On...
James Bond Enters a New Era with Producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal
In a seismic shift for one of cinema’s most enduring franchises, Amazon MGM Studios has...
‘Die Hard’ Director John McTiernan Says The future of Filmmaking Is “Independent Financing”
In a recent interview with Forbes, John McTiernan, the director behind Die Hard, The Thomas...
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Reinventing The Epic Fantasy Genre?
Ever since the release of Oppenheimer, there has been much speculation about Christopher Nolan’s next...
The Lost Jaws Prequel—Steven Spielberg’s Jaws 2 Described as “Saving Private Ryan, With Sharks”
Jaws 2 is the best of the sequels to the Steven Spielberg classic, but it...
Why Quentin Tarantino Hates Skyfall
Quentin Tarantino wanted to direct Casino Royale starring Pierce Brosnan. Although vocal about his intentions,...
How A Russian Thief Bought the Rights to ‘Casino Royale’ and Turned James Bond into a Woman
In 1955, flamboyant Russian actor and director Gregory Ratoff was in Cairo, Egypt, acting and...
Stanley Kubrick Explains the Ending of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ In Unreleased Documentary
Stanley Kubrick wanted the meaning of 2001: A Space Odyssey to be ambiguous, left open...
From Russia With Love’s Helicopter Attack Vs. North By Northwest’s Crop-Duster Sequence: Why The Bond Sequence Isn’t a Rip-Off of Hitchcock’s Famous Set Piece
The helicopter attack in From Russia With Love is often unfairly dismissed as a rip-off...