Director Doug Liman answers questions from readers about filmmaking. Beachgrl asks: Do you think it’s essential that a director know how to do every job?

Our company Hypnotic is actually pretty small, it’s really just myself, my partner Dave Bartis, Gene Klein and some support help. Miraculously, this year we’ll have gotten three shows on the air at the same time, which is a first for us. We’ve never had more than one show on the air at a time. [...]

Doug Liman Blog: Just when I thought I was done promoting Fair Game, Judith Miller took a swing at the film in an op-ed last week in the Wall Street Journal. I’m not about to let Miller smear my screenwriters or my movie

I’ve been in 6 cities, including Beijing, Busan Korea, Vancouver and San Francisco in the past 7 days doing press and going to film festivals for both Fair Game and The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman. This week I’ll be in Washington DC and Abu Dhabi. I have the schedule of a politician running [...]

It’s pretty clear from the title what this post is about. I’ve been blogging for about a year now and, while not every post is about Fair Game, most of them are. It turns out that they’re an excellent record of what I went through while making the film — from scouting our first locations [...]

There were so many people at the premiere last night that both theaters were maxed out. We are all exhausted but extremely happy with how it went. Below are photos from the red carpet and the screening. Enjoy!

After all the work I did for Haiti, I thought I should also look closer to home for ways that I could help others. Considering that there were 43.6 million Americans living in poverty in 2009, it wasn’t hard to find important causes to support. When Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, approached [...]

Doug Liman blogs about his plans for the Fair Game premiere and his leading ladies Naomi Watts, who plays Valerie Plame, and Piper Perabo, the star of Covert Affairs TV show on USA Network.

Last September I had the pleasure of talking on the phone with Wuershan, the man who directed The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman. Scheduling the call was slightly complicated by the fact that Wuershan is in Beijing and I’m in NY, plus I had an evening of re-shoots for our MTV pilot Pants, but [...]

I just had the craziest experience I’ve ever had on a shoot. As you know I’m producing and directing a show for MTV called I Just Want My Pants Back. It’s a really outrageous half-hour comedy following a group of twentysomethings in Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY.

Doug Liman was shown and asked to come on board as an Executive Producer for a Chinese film by first-time director Wu Ershan called The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman.

There’s a capricious nature to our business that never ceases to amaze me. I can pin my career on my chance meeting of Jon Favreau at a party. A few weeks ago I found creative inspiration for Covert Affairs, from a casual conversation I had with my friend Paul. I was in LA meeting with [...]

The crew and cast of Covert Affairs is fast becoming a family and though I’ve talked extensively about Piper and some of the producers and directors on the show I haven’t said much about a person who has really become a glue to our whole operation, our DP Jamie Barber. Jamie’s worked on every project [...]

In Niagra Falls working on an amazing episode of Covert Affairs. Big action sequence at the falls — what an incredible location. Cannot believe what we are being allowed to do here. You know that feeling you get when you are standing next to a cliff edge, or looking out over a tall balcony? Well, that’s been [...]

I’m going to a premiere party and screening at the Soho House tonight for Covert Affairs and will be keeping up a tradition that I started on Mr. and Mrs. Smith of going on a nighttime sail after my NYC, summer premieres. I know I have a reputation (in my own mind) for being Mr. [...]