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Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018
Filmmakers Demos, Ricciardi Discuss Return Of Netflix's "Making a Murderer"
The "Making a Murderer" filmmakers were in many ways in a race against the clock to make part two of their series, now available on Netflix. "We were in postproduction from day one," said Moira Demos. "We were shooting and editing and shooting and editing and finding the story as we went." The...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Jonah Hill Reflects On Feature Directorial Debut, "Mid90s"
Jonah Hill has always wanted to direct. He worships filmmakers and has treated what he describes as an "accidental" but "wonderful" 15-year acting career as a partial film school, learning from people like Bennett Miller, who directed him in "Moneyball" and Martin Scorsese on "The Wolf of Wall...
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018
Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant Discuss "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
"Can You Ever Forgive Me?" is a film about Lee Israel, a biographer who started a side hustle writing fake letters as Noel Coward, Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker and other deceased luminaries and selling them to collectors. Part cautionary tale, part celebration of this unapologetic literary rebel...
Monday, Oct. 8, 2018
CMO Reflects On The Art Of Marketing Mochi, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Popchips
Mochi — a pillowy, Japanese rice dough — has been around for centuries. But now it's one of the fastest-selling items in your grocery's freezer aisle. The popularity of the bite-sized treats is due in part to The Mochi Ice Cream Co. The company was founded three years ago after the private equity...
Thursday, Sep. 20, 2018
"This Is Us" Creator Dan Fogelman Focuses On "Life Itself"
As in his TV series "This Is Us," jubilant and catastrophic events tend to cluster for Dan Fogelman. Days before his latest and most ambitious movie, "Life Itself," opens in theaters, and the third season of his hit NBC show premieres, Fogelman's house was robbed. The thieves returned later the...
Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2018
Actresses Sevigny, Stewart Cast "Lizzie" In A Different Light
Chloe Sevigny has been trying to do a fresh take on the Lizzie Borden tale for over a decade. A fateful trip to the house in Fall River, Massachusetts, convinced her to look at Borden's life through a different, more empathetic lens, pulling back the curtain on the suffocating circumstances...
Sunday, Sep. 9, 2018
Director Steve McQueen Reflects On "Widows"
Lynda La Plante's 1980s British crime series "Widows" had a curious hold of filmmaker Steve McQueen as a 13-year-old boy. The show was about a group of women who, after their criminal husbands are killed, band together to pull off the raid their dead spouses had planned. The women were, to young...
Monday, Aug. 27, 2018
AT&T's David Christopher Discusses Media Consumption, Streaming Evolution
David Christopher, who runs AT&T’s wireless and entertainment businesses, has a bird’s eye view of how streaming media and video are evolving. AT&T recently completed its $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, a deal designed to help traditional media companies compete better with nimble tech...
Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018
Casey Affleck Discusses "Old Man & The Gun," His Oscars Absence, MeToo
With a new movie coming out this fall, "The Old Man & The Gun," Casey Affleck is speaking publicly about bowing out of presenting the best actress Oscar and past harassment allegations against him amid the #MeToo and Time's Up movements. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press,...
Friday, Aug. 10, 2018
TV Academy's John Leverence Reflects On Spots Vying For The Emmy
Our annual tradition continues with SHOOT sounding out John Leverence, sr. VP of awards at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, to get an entertainment industry POV on the spots nominated this year for the primetime Emmy which are: Procter & Gamble’s “The Talk” directed by Malik Vitthal...