Here’s a cute reminder on movie theater manners.

Writer/director Ted Melfi got Bill Murray to appear in his first film by calling him. Murray does not have an agent or a manager. He has an 800 number. And Melfi left message after message until Murray finally called back and asked Melfi to pick him up at the airport. Apparently his pitch skills (and …

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Thanks to Indiewire for including me in their survey of critics about how important it is to watch a movie as it was filmed. If it was made on film stock, is it unfair to the artists’ vision to watch a digital version? Here was my answer: I remember hearing a Lionsgate executive explaining ruefully …

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From Morgan Spence

Pixar artist Armand Baltazar has a forthcoming three-book children’s series called Timeless, about a world in which all time periods come together, and all nows are at the same time. A boy and friends from different time periods must rescue his father And it’s going to be a movie, too, directed by “Rio’s” Carlos Saldanha. …

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