Christopher Nolan took the BFI London Film Festival stage this afternoon to continue his crusade for the preservation of film as digital continues to dominate production, archive and exhibition. But he stayed silent on details of his next movie. That silence has been deafening since Warner Bros announced a release date…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that myster…

Interstellar scooped the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects tonight, beating a field of some of the biggest movies of 2014. In an Oscar year dominated by smaller films, all five nominees were among the 16 highest-grossing pics of the year domestically — a fact that further cements the importance of VFX in today’s…

Since the 1980s, German-born composer Hans Zimmer has created some of the most unique and visionary scores, along the way racking up nine career Oscar nominations; he's won only once, for 1995's Disney classic, The Lion King. Zimmer is often associated with music of a certain epic scale—his work on such films as Incept…

Refresh for latest… Best Picture The Imitation Game “Much gratitude to the Academy for recognizing The Imitation Game in eight categories. Telling Alan Turing’s story was the experience of a lifetime and we never thought it would lead us here. On behalf of everyone who worked on this film, in any capacity, we say…

Warner Bros Pictures International had a record year in 2014, grossing $3.17 billion. The studio said today that it beat its previous best of $3.14B in 2013 by 1%. The haul was led by Interstellar with $472M, which became Christopher Nolan’s biggest film ever in more than 1o territories including an eye-popping $74M…

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is set for a special limited run at the California Science Center Imax theatre, Imax and Paramount said today. It will initially run from December 26 to December 30, with additional show times every Friday and Saturday at 7 PM from January 2 through January 17. Nolan used Imax cameras…

Far from her early-career princess days, Hathaway gets her hands dirty when it comes to work, such as her tough turn as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. She's also downright fearless when it comes to the brass tacks of her craft, i.e., singing live without a pre-record as the luckless Fantine in…

2ND UPDATE, MONDAY 4:39 PM PT: Actuals are in from the international weekend with The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies climbing $4.6M above projections. The 1st frame cume is now $122.2M with 3D results accounting for 71% of the box office total. Increases in key overseas markets have been updated below. Expanded…

Monday update, 3:20PM: 20th Century Fox’s Exodus: Gods and Kings came in just a tad below its weekend estimate yesterday morning with $24.1M today, but then most of the films in the top 10 were off slightly from Sunday, including Paramount’s Top Five which came in $300K less than its projection with $6.9M…

2ND UPDATE, TUESDAY AM PT: Actuals are in from all studios with the exception of Sony. For the most part the estimates matched the final results, although Mockingjay came in slightly higher with $32.9M for a $306.6M cume, and Penguins Of Madagascar flapped up to $24.2M with a $95M cume. Also among notable upticks was…

The Movie Academy has whittled its shortlist for the Visual Effects category to 10. It appears to follow the general trend of rewarding summer blockbusters, with the likes of Marvel tentpoles Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians Of The Galaxy, Fox’s Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and X-Men pic, Warner…