Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024

This year’s field of nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Commercials consists of four past winners of the honor and a helmer garnering his first career nomination.

The latter is Seb Edwards of Park Pictures.

As...

Tuesday, Sep. 19, 2023

The little guy — or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market — gets a movie to cheer with "Dumb Money," the real story of a very recent financial rebellion that shook Wall Street to its loafers.

Paul Dano plays our hero here, Keith Gill, a new dad...

Monday, Sep. 11, 2023

Think of movies about the financial system and your mind is almost sure to go to Gordon Gekko and "Wall Street" or Leonardo DiCaprio's gyrating Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street."

When Hollywood takes on Wall Street, it usually heads straight to the C-suite.

The...

Monday, Jul. 24, 2023

The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a starry lineup to its 48th edition on Monday, even if remains unclear if stars will be there to walk red carpets due to the ongoing actors and writers strikes.

Among the films making their world premieres at TIFF this year are Craig...

Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023

MJZ topped the production house tally with two directors scoring nominations today (1/10) for the DGA Award recognizing outstanding Directorial Achievement For Commercials in 2022--Juan Cabral and Craig Gillespie. This marks the sixth DGA spot nomination for Gillespie who won the honor in 2006....

Friday, May. 13, 2022

Craig Gillespie first established himself as a world-class director in the short-form discipline. A five-time DGA Award nominee for best commercial director of the year, Gillespie won the honor in 2006 on the strength of spots for Ameriquest and Altoids. The next year the Chicago Film Critics...

Monday, May. 31, 2021

German punk princess Nina Hagen isn't the most obvious inspiration for a Disney movie, but " Cruella " is also not your typical Disney movie. The new live-action origin story about the black-and-white-haired cartoon supervillain is less about a maniacal dalmatian-skinner than an aspiring...

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018

The Academy Awards seem like formality when it comes to the best supporting actress category this year.

Since the world devoured Allison Janney's brilliantly acidic performance as Tonya Harding's abusive mother in the Craig Gillespie-directed "I, Tonya," she has won nearly every major...

Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017

"I, Tonya" is the Tonya Harding film you never knew you wanted: an outrageously entertaining reappraisal of the Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was involved in a scheme to injure her main rival, Nancy Kerrigan.

Resurrecting Harding from the yellowed pages of '90s tabloids may seem...

Friday, Oct. 27, 2017

SHOOT will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, October 30, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT’s October/November print issue (including extended versions of some stories).

The mix of profiles includes several filmmakers whose...

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