Film Producion

Chris Mortensen wrote and directed Tragic, a 2024 psychological horror feature about three faded 1980s stars attempting a comeback. There was no formal budget and no investors. Mortensen paid for the production out of pocket, and the only real line item he names is his own gas

Rene Laloux made Gandahar in 1987 with the comic artist Caza, who designed its winged beings, metal men, and mutant landscapes, and the animation was produced by the SEK Studio in North Korea. It is one of the more unusual production stories in European animation, and it closed

The AMC Rivercenter 11 in San Antonio, one of two IMAX 70mm houses in Texas, had to refund a full house of The Odyssey when its 70mm projector overheated and repeatedly stopped. Moviegoers got tickets, snacks, a voucher and parking back. This screen has a history. During

The armor in The Odyssey took a 175-person crew of sculptors, leatherworkers, moldmakers and breakdown painters that Ellen Mirojnick kept on for the main cast alone. 5,300 costumes, built by hand across nine countries. #OccupyCinema #FilmProduction

The people who actually run a film set are the assistant directors. Not the director, not the stars. On The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's first AD was Nilo Otero, running his eighth film with Nolan, going back to The Dark Knight in 2008. His job is simple to say and hard to do.

Running The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm takes more than owning a projector. Each print runs more than 17 kilometers and weighs about 240 kilograms, and threading and monitoring it needs a trained specialist. To meet demand, IMAX contracted 130 experienced projectionists through a

Jason Roberts is a DGA assistant director, unit production manager and line producer who came up through the DGA training program, logging 400 days on set starting in 1993. In this breakdown he explains that on large scale pictures a crew can spend an entire shooting day

The only parts of Jacob Elordi you actually see in Frankenstein are the tip of his nose, his upper lip and his chin. Mike Hill built the rest by hand, 42 prosthetics on a makeup call that started at midnight and ran ten hours. #OccupyCinema #FilmProduction

Grant Pichla wrote and directed Making Time, a feature length time travel film shot across just two days. The two shooting days were separated by seven months and a house renovation, which meant every actor had to return months later and match continuity exactly. Day one alone

Clay Moffatt is a filmmaker based in San Tan Valley, Arizona whose credits include Silver Woods, The October Flowers, Pocketman and Cargoboy, and The Last Five Days. He writes, directs, produces and edits his own features, and his average shooting schedule for a full feature is

The Last Picture Shows is Rustin Thompson's road-trip documentary about the theaters that anchor small towns. Over two summers he drove 10,825 miles and reached 123 movie houses in towns under 10,000 people. Roughly half were closed, demolished, or converted, and the ones still

23 production assistants on CBS's Cupertino filed to unionize, worried studios are already stripping the 12-hour guarantee out of PA deal memos. #OccupyCinema #FilmProduction

Ricky Glore is the writer, director and star of Sweet Meats, the cannibal horror comedy musical released through Troma Entertainment in 2025. In this breakdown he lays out the physical shoot: principal photography ran eight consecutive days, six of them inside a single

Netflix is spending $1 billion to put 12 soundstages on a decommissioned Army base at Fort Monmouth. U.S. shoots fell 10% last quarter and New Jersey's rose 45%, so that is where the crew calls are going now. #OccupyCinema #FilmProduction

Danny Vermette's art department furnished the Backrooms out of estate sales and hotel liquidators, 39 of the same chair in one haul, then built it all on 15 foot risers so the actors had to slide from room to room. #OccupyCinema #FilmProduction

Ben Affleck says Gingerbread Men shoots in L.A. because of the crew and vendors he has been using since Argo. The 41 projects California just approved fund 6,198 cast and crew jobs. That's the argument. #OccupyCinema #FilmProduction