Dan Cox

Black Sundance As co-director of the Sundance Film Festival, Geoff Gilmore has long been accused of keeping the indie fortnight black in tone. Maybe it’s because he likes to wear black. Or maybe it‘s counterprogramming to all that snow up there. But as one indie producer wryly noted, how do......

Fighting With the Mann The most lip-splitting heavyweight battle to grace Hollywood in recent memory was by no means in the upcoming film Ali. It was the battle of wills for credit on the biopic. Credits are always a touchy subject because money is dictated by credit. If you’re designated......

Propaganda Films‘ untimely demise last week has been demonized by propaganda of its own. Once a haven for such directors as Dominic Sena, Spike Jonze, Simon West, David Fincher and Steven Soderbergh as well as a number of commercial directors ready to take the plunge into features, the company’s dissolution......

MGM is aching to be taken seriously. The studio that once provided the likes of The Wizard of Oz and Network is now relegated to distributing such high-end fare as Heartbreakers, AntiTrust and 3 Strikes. Okay, that‘s slightly facetious. But under former casino-boss-now-studio-corporate-chairman Alex Yemenidjian and studio chairman Chris McGurk,......