Go behind-the-scenes as the ladies of Sex and the City 2 talk about taking “quintessentially North American women” and taking them halfway around the world to Abu Dhabi. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby-esque hijinks ensue.  

Behind-the-scenes of “Splice” with Adrien Brody — a MakingOf exclusive

Brody talks about the original, character-driven script, and how working with real actors playing Dren, the genetically created creature Brody and Sarah Polley’s characters create, made it easier to believe the relationships of the characters as opposed to working with CGI.

Director Neil Jordan and actor Colin Farrell talk “Ondine” | MakingOf Exclusive

The discuss the freedom of working outside the studio, how they worked together to get “Ondine” made, and how working on the characters inspired the actors more than the story.

Director Nicholas Stoller on “Get Him to the Greek” | MakingOf Exclusive

Stoller talks about wanting to do another movie with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” character Aldous Snow, adding Jonah Hill and Sean Combs to the mix, and how improv is essential to comedy.

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz talk about their characters’ “extraordinary” first meeting in this featurette for “Knight & Day.”

They also rave about shooting in beautiful Sevilla, Spain, how their characters Roy and June form an unlikely duo, and how shooting action scenes were both funny and scary.

Who wouldn’t want Cameron Diaz as their right-hand man?

Exclusive: Interview with Producer Jon Landau from “Produced By” 2010

Landau, who recently produced “Avatar”, talks exclusively to MakingOf about getting involved from the start of the project, what he looks for when choosing a project to produce, how “Avatar” was a collaborative experience, and how starting from the “gopher” position of being a Production Assistant led him to becoming the producer he is today.

“What attracts me to projects, and what I tell people we’re looking for in projects, are movies that have a theme that is bigger than their genre. To me, we spend too much time as an industry talking about plot, and not enough time talking about theme.” — Jon Landau

Exclusive: Interview with “The Karate Kid” director Harald Zwart

Harald Zwart recently sat down with MakingOf to discuss his approach in remaking “The Karate Kid.” Zwart was motivated to make the movie more about the relationship between blah and blah and less about the actual fighting.  ”I kind of wanted to make it almost as if it were an independent film, very handheld, very reality based, very emotional; I talk more about that than the fights.”

But for those who are interested in the fighting side of the story, don’t be dissapointed: ”From the beginning wanted the fighting as-in-your-face dangerous and emotionally tough as The Bourne Identity and all those fights, which I thought are great fight scenes.”

Zwart discusses Kung Fu (which is what the kids in the movie actually do), scouting for the right locations in China with minimal crew, and also pointed out “Stand By Me” as an inspiration for what he envisioned — a movie for grown-ups with children in it.

MakingOf.com Exclusive Interview — “Get Him to the Greek” writer and director Nicholas Stoller

Stoller sat down with MakingOf recently and spoke about comedy writing and directing. He names Judd Apatow as a mentor, discussed how writing “Fun with Dick and Jane” with Apatow launched him into a screenwriting career, and offers advice to those interested in getting into the film industry.

Bonus news: Stoller mentioned that he and Jason Segel are currently working on another draft of the new Muppets movie.

MakingOf.com Exclusive: The cast of “Winter’s Bone” discusses what it was like to film in the Ozarks. 

“If anything’s going to get you into character, it’s that. You prepare as much as you think you can and then when you get there, it just brings in a whole new league to everything. There’s no set. There was houses and woods and everything’s real; you can’t not be in character.” — Jennifer Lawrence

“Cyrus” directors Jay and Mark Duplass talk their trademark shooting | MakingOf.com

“We’re almost like a documentary team in a lot of ways… Jay was on the camera, and I was on the microphone and we would just allow our actors to flow freely around our set… and we’d just capture it,” said Mark Duplass, one of the directors of “Cyrus.”

Jay Duplass spoke about their unique brand of improv, saying: “We don’t do the typical type of improv where people are creating jokes on set… We really try to get off script so that the actors have to be in the moment with each other… They know they have to accomplish that goal by the end of the scene and as long as they do that, we’re thrilled for them to do whatever dialogue or body language they need to use to accomplish it.”