Box Office Earnings, Explained: Why Showing Up Matters at the Movies

The accounting department at Disney is working overtime these days, burdened with tallying the ever-growing box office reports for the blockbuster superhero film, The Avengers. Since its April 25th release, the film has earned a reported $1 billion in box office sales worldwide; it also set the record for opening…

Magic City‘s Redband Trailer: A Play-By-Play

Magic City’s having a tough first season. It debuted to low ratings, though those numbers may have been affected by the availability of its series premiere at the Miami International Film Festival, OnDemand, and online in the weeks leading up to its official debut. Critics have not been nice about…

The 24-Hour Film Race: Can You Make A Movie in Just One Day?

Calling all starving artists and film students: If your pipe dreams of submitting features to Sundance have yet to be realized, maybe start a little smaller. With the upcoming 24-Hour Film Race, for example.After blessing Miami with poop jokes galore in last year’s Audience Favorite short film Wall of Shame,…

30 Rock is Ending Next Season, and Everything in the World is Awful

All the signs of the apocalypse were there. Global warming. That Mayan calendar business. The existence of this.We knew the end was coming. But we still weren’t prepared for this.NBC President Robert Greenblatt announced today that 30 Rock will end its seventh season with a series finale. Not season finale…