The Road is a dark post-apocalyptic tale that tells of the survival of a father (Viggo Mortsensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm.
It is the big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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How write the number 1 film in the world
"Avatar" was writer-director Cameron's first film since 1997's Titanic, the biggest modern blockbuster with $1.8 billion worldwide. After 43 days of international release, for a worldwide total of $2.1 billion and surpassed Titanic's worldwide gross to become the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. Cameron now is the only filmmaker to direct two movies that have topped $1 billion, with Avatar . It is also the top box office film in South Africa having topped R42 million since its release on December 18, 2009. Cameron first conceived of the film 15 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist.  "I wanted to create a familiar type of adventure in an unfamiliar environment, by setting the classic tale of a newcomer to a foreign land and culture on an alien planet. I've dreamed of creating a film like this, set on another world of great danger and beauty, since I was a kid reading pulp science fiction and comic books by the truckload, and sitting in math class drawing creatures and aliens behind my propped up textbook.  With AVATAR, I finally got my chance."  Read more

Write what inspires you and makes you tick
Bright Star had been a dream of director Jane Campion's for several years. "I was reading a biography of Keats," she says. "I got to the part where he met Fanny and I fell in love with their story.  I was drawn to the pain and beauty and innocence of their love affair. I was incredibly moved by Andrew Motion's book. It was a true life Romeo and Juliet story well-documented but one I had not known.  I found myself weeping at the end of it. The story is so tragic and tender. " Read more

Adapting a Pulitzer-prize winning novel
From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.  It was adapted by Award-winning writer and director Joe Penhall was described by The Financial Times as "one of the finest playwrights of his generation." Read more

Use point of view to strengthen your story
Screenwriter Katherine Fugate created the interwoven stories in Valentine's Day "to show how love was approached from different angles and different generations--from the unjaded 10-year-old boy with his first crush, to the thirtysomethings dealing with their relationship, or lack thereof, all the way to the older married couple looking back at the journey of love they have taken together.  Love also takes on many different faces that go beyond romance, but at the end of the day, love always brings us back to what is most important in life." Read more

Write a story that an audience can invest in emotionally
Director Joe Johnston was far more interested in story before spectacle when he approached The Wolfman.  In screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self's story, he found "underneath the action and the blood and the terror, a love story about Lawrence Talbot and his dead brother's fiancée, Gwen.  I wanted that relationship to be the element that held the story together…the key piece that invested the audience in understanding this horrible thing Lawrence is inflicted with."   Read more

Write stories that's got 'a film inside'
"I'm still not entirely sure what it was about Lynn Barber's piece that had such a strong pull on me, but quite clearly there was one," says screenwriter Nick Hornby, who adapted journalist Lynn Barber's memoir  An Education. I read it and gave it to my wife, Amanda Posey who is one of the producers, saying, 'Look, there's a film in here'.  "I always thought I must remember at some point to write the whole story of my first boyfriend as I always thought it was extraordinary," says journalist Lynn Barber of her brief memoir.  "The only person I'd told was my husband because it was such a long and complicated story - you couldn't really just tell someone casually over dinner or something.  It was almost like a secret I'd been carrying around with me."   Read more

Re-invent a classic tale
The Princess and the Frog is the sixth collaboration by the veteran team of Ron Clements and John Musker, whose roster of film achievements reads like an animation hall of fame, from their first teaming in 1986 on "The Great Mouse Detective," to "The Little Mermaid," "Aladdin," "Hercules" and "Treasure Planet." As usual, the animated duo was drawn to the project because of its compelling story and comic promise--potential that had eluded other development attempts. Read more

Home Entertainment: What's new on DVD  Read more

Funny People is a touching and rewarding insight into the mind of a stand-up comic who contemplates his lonely existence; Johnny Depp plays legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger in Michael Mann's explosive Public Enemies. Read more

Two football join a cheerleading camp in the hilarious Fired Up ; and Writer/director David Leland´s modern interpretation of Virgin Territory is a stimulating and erotic story of innocence, love and lasting friendships… Read more

Hottie Jesse Metcalfe packs heat in this sexy action-thriller Loaded as a rich, Malibu kid getting caught up with the wrong crowd. Eden Lake is a "relentlessly tense and immaculately paced" horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids.   Read more

Fans of Little Britain are in for the viewing of a lifetime  with this hilarious series that crowns the unbelievable talent of first rate British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams as they unleash their favourite characters (as well as some new comic monstrosities) on the world.  Be warned that this is comedy at its most outrageous and wicked, and most definitely not for the straight laced or weak hearted.  Read more