Film timelines are wildly unpredictable—some movies wrap in weeks while others stretch for months, depending on budget, creativity, and scale. From quick Nollywood shoots to six-month blockbusters, ...

Back in 1935, the behemoth Japanese film studio Toho (then known as Photo Chemical Laboratories, or P.C.L.) put out an advertisement seeking assistant directors. A 25-year-old Akira Kurosawa applied ...

Welcome to In Development! Each week, I track how creative work gets made now and who's building the models behind it. If it helped you make sense of something, pass it along! And if this found you by ...