Here's Frank Darabont again, now hogging the "Director" section. Yep, Frankie boy was so involved in every aspect of this film it's a surprise he didn't cast himself as both Red and Andy on top of...

Because the director, Frank Darabont, didn't feel comfortable handing over the reins to anyone else, he wrote the screenplay himself as well. Frequently this is a sign of someone with an overinflat...

The Shawshank Redemption was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, a company that was named after a fictional Maine town that pops up in a number of stories by Stephen King, who wrote the novella...

Oh, Hollywood—you are selling nothing but a pack of lies! You try to get us to buy the idea that a prison is in Maine, when really everything was shot in Ohio. Curse you, O deceitful one!Yes, it'...

Say you're given a paintbrush and a really tall ladder and asked to go up to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to make some "improvements." That's pretty much what composer Thomas Newman felt he wa...

If it weren't for Shawshank's extensive fan base, we probably wouldn't even remember that this movie ever existed. It pretty much flopped in theaters originally, which we blame more on the marketin...