1) Leonardo DiCaprio: July 2010 to July 2011 Earnings: $77 million After a string of fantastic film choices, Leonardo DiCaprio has gone from strength to strength. After cashing in on blockbusters such as Inception, Shutter Island and J. Edgar, in the future, expect to see him starring in big movies such as “The Great Gatsby” and “Creed of Violence”. In April 2012 he also has his original...

There was a time when the human race lived on a subsistence level. They moved rapidly between looking for food, eating the food, running away from predators and trying not to freeze to death. Any time left over with strictly for unprotected sex, on the off chance that it might create more humans before the current stock was eaten or froze to death. But then we evolved as a species. We came up with more...

The science fiction genre can trace its roots back to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” and movies delved into this topic early with Georges Melies’ “Le Voyage dans la lune.” In the 110 years after that 14 minute epic was released, science fiction has expanded and evolved and now it is one of the major genres employed by filmmakers today. Even during the nadir witnessed during the 1940s and 1950s,...

The 1950s was a decade of b horror flicks- cheaply made movies meant to be shown at the drive-in, giving teenagers the creeps while they necked in the front seat of their cars. Among some of the most popular b horror flicks of the time were ones featuring ginormous, monster insects, usually the mutated results of atomic testing, natural mutations, or (in some cases,) alien intervention. Not only is the...

Where do you sit on the digital copyright vs. free content and open source debate? 2011-2012 has seen a lot of landmark developments and influential business decisions across various entertainment industries. What is DRM? Digital Rights Management is a lock placed upon a piece of content such as music or film in order to prevent the content being copied or played outside a certain system or platform....

Suddenly it appears everyone is producing fairytale shows. There’s Once Upon A Time on ABC, Mirror Mirror the feature starring Julia Roberts, Snow White and the Huntsman, Grimm (now into Season 2) and I’m personally loving the moment, lapping it up while it lasts. I asked Keith, a Producer of 12 feature films to explain about the robust interest in fairytale’s we’re now witnessing. His diverse...

Finding distribution and pre-sales deals was once a feasible task, but not so much any more. Over the years the promise of financing and production for indie films has dramatically faded, and filmmakers are struggling to stay afloat. Bottom line is that survival of the fittest relies upon mindsets that change with the state of the industry. Understand The Reality The industry changed as a result of digital...

My 12 Feature Filmography Despite my long filmography in the genre, having produced many horror films, it doesn’t automatically imply that I always enjoy them, or for that matter that they are that easy to produce.  So when my wife suggested I watch the ‘Walking Dead’ and cleverly sold it to me with the synopsis ‘Some officer wakes from a coma to see dead people around him’, I didn’t think she...

The ability to write a highly polished and professional script doesn’t come easy to anybody. It takes years, decades in fact, to master the craft. Indeed, mastery of that craft requires the mastery of a number of different skills. Screenwriting is not one single, defined skill; it is a set of skills that combine to create the wherewithal to produce the scripts that are transformed into the new films...

They are the film characters everyone loves to hate. They terrify us, leave us scared witless and have us perched on the edge of our seats in the cinema or in our living rooms, yet we also find movie villains fascinating to observe. Here are five of the scariest bad guys to have ever graced the big screen. Darth Vader Looks menacing decked out in all black, sounds menacing and acts menacing as well,...