Netflix's "The Crown" deploys a small team to mine 20th century British history. Specialist researcher Annie Sulzberger has been among them since 2013, when Peter Morgan explored extending his play…
After producing hit movies for a decade, Brian Grazer got his first blue-chip TV credit in 1998 on HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon." On the heels of Grazer and partner Ron Howard's Oscar-nominated…
There's a new rejoinder in Hollywood: "But what I really want to do is direct television." Established directors with nothing left to prove on the feature side have been flocking to the smaller…
Escapism dominates at multiplexes. But on the small screen, dramas are channeling the zeitgeist in increasingly novelistic ways. "The Handmaid's Tale," "Mr. Robot" and "The Americans" have all tapped…
Anatomy of a Scene "The Night Of," Season 1, Episode 7, "Ordinary Death" (HBO) People making TV shows often take field trips to the locations they are trying to dramatize. In the case of HBO's "The…
The socio-political Tasmanian devil known as President Trump has thrown cultural works of every stripe — from tentpole movies to operas — into chaos since Election Day, everything. But if one single…
During the 2000s, Nick Meyer, who as the head of Sierra/Affinity, is the recipient of Variety’s Achievement in International Film Awards at this year’s Cannes festival, experienced a career's worth…
Producing and financing films, rather than just taking a fee to sell them, has always been an important part of Sierra/Affinity's blueprint since the company launched in 2009. Nevertheless, it took…
Big Beach Films should consider a bold new strategy: Make only movies with the word "sunshine" in the titles. "Sunshine Cleaning," with more than $11 million in domestic B.O. since a limited March…
The members of Thursday's "Future of Filmmaking" panel hosted by Syracuse U. at Gotham's W Union Square took a surprisingly wary view of the future.
Miramax and Weinstein Co. alum Gary Faber and ex-NRG exec Joseph Craig have launched market research outfit Entertainment Research & Marketing.
