About

Born and raised in New York, Anne Thompson has been a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, The Observer, and Wired. She has served as film columnist at Variety, and deputy editor of Variety.com, where her daily blog, “Thompson on Hollywood,” launched in March 2007.  Anne was the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment.  She wrote the film industry column “Risky Business” for L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Times syndicate.  A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, she has taught film criticism at USC and hosts the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Sophia Savage, in addition to being a staff writer for Thompson on Hollywood! and indieWIRE since 2009, is a filmmaker an actor and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She studied film and theater at Smith College and is happy to support her acting habit and film obsession by writing about the industry. Follow her on Twitter.

Matt Brennan graduated from USC in 2009 with a B.A. in film studies and history. After teaching English for two years at a school for at-risk teens in rural Louisiana, he is pursuing a Ph.D in American history and filing a weekly column, “Now and Then,” for Thompson on Hollywood. His writing has also appeared in L.A. Weekly, Bright Lights Film Journal, and on his own blog, The Filmgoer. He lives in New Orleans.

Jacob Combs is a native Angeleno who graduated from Brown University in 2011.  During his time at Brown, he wrote for Post Magazine and Indiewire's The Playlist.  He is currently continuing his East Coast hiatus writing and making music in New York City.

Amy Dawes writes regularly about film and television for publications including Directors Guild Quarterly, Emmy Magazine and The LA Times. She is a former senior features editor and film reviewer at Variety, where she covered the independent film and festival scene beginning in the early ‘90s.  She lives in Los Angeles, where she graduated from USC with a master’s degree in professional writing.

Bill Desowitz specializes in animation/VFX/tech/below the line movie coverage. He is former senior editor of AWN and editor of sister site VFXWorld. He also has the new blog, Immersed in Movies. He is currently writing a book about James Bond, chronicling the evolution of 007 from Connery to Craig, to be published in 2012 in honor of the franchise’s 50th anniversary.

Terry Curtis Fox is a playwright and screenwriter. Mr. Fox's television career includes writing for Hill Street Blues, The Marshal, Diagnosis Murder, Sweet Justice, and the Showtime series The Hunger, for which he served as co-show runner. His most recent feature, A Very Simple Crime (a collaboration with Nicholas Kazan) is to be directed by Barbet Schroeder. He is the co-author of the Miramax feature, Fortress and the HBO movie, Perfect Witness. His plays include Cops, Justice, and The Pornographer's Daughter. For many years he was a journalist; his criticism appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Village Voice, and Film Comment. He is currently an Associate Professor of screenwriting at Western Carolina University and has served as visiting faculty for the past three summers in the Tisch School’s Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU. For nine years, Mr. Fox was on the Board of the WGA, west. Now that he is splitting his time between Asheville and Brooklyn, he is a member of WGAE.

Maggie Lange was born in Paris, raised in Washington DC and graduated from Brown University in May 2011.  She lives, bikes, and writes in Providence.  Her essays, articles, and reviews have been featured in the Phoenix and the Brown Alumni Magazine.

Matt Mueller has previously edited two British movie magazines – Total Film and the UK edition of Premiere – and is now a Contributing Editor at Total Film and Wonderland, as well as freelancing for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and Screen International among others. Based in London, he covers the UK beat for Thompson on Hollywood.