Everyone knows the Star Wars theme. Fans can hum the tunes from the Harry Potter movies and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Can you remember the theme song to any of the Marvel superhero moves? No, you cannot, because the...

What does Mad Max: Fury Road look like without the computer-generated imagery? Pretty much the same as the finished product. The explosions, the flamethrowers, and the fire? Those were all real. The wrecks? All real. Wit...

In the past few years, filmmakers have set up shop in Detroit to film horror flicks. Where else can you find huge empty buildings, run-down homes you can buy for a pittance, and overgrown fields? Justine Smith looks at h...

Let’s look at the art of making a scary movi...  ...ink)It’s another fascinating deep dive into filmmaking from Now You See It, the channel that brought us...

Embed from Getty Images Producers, directors, and stars of Hollywood films get all the press, but it's the editors behind the scenes that get the job done. They must take hundreds of hours of footage and craft it into a...

When it hit theaters thirty years ago, Big Trouble...  ...spirit as a new kind of influence into Hollywood filmmaking .”The finished film was very different. So w...

Jonathan Lawrence was the third director hired to shoot the film Empires of the Deep, but the first of three to direct the actual shooting. In 2010, filming began in China, a co-production of the sort Hollywood is active...

We’ve examined filmmaking enough to know that editing can make or break a m...

Actors will sometimes go through months of preparation for a role, which can involve dramatically changing one’s appearance. Months of preparation doesn’t earn them any extra money, but it can pay off with an...

Joel and Ethan Coen have a particular style that y...  ...Every Frame a Painting makes the mundane parts of filmmaking