Browsing: Film School

Every New Year’s Eve millions of people design their future film career. They set themselves ambitious goals: Write my screenplay. Direct my short film. Produce my debut feature. Get into a festival. Find an agent. Build a career in film.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day brought in $927m (£687m) of global ticket sales to make it the second-biggest opening weekend ever as it shot past its estimated $225m production budget.

When I learned a few years ago that my adult daughter had never seen the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes,” I felt like a failure as a father. How could I, someone who tried so diligently to instill in my children a love of movies, overlook the iconic sci-fi movie that gave birth to…