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Friday, Mar. 3, 2023
Screen Play Just Beginning For Taylor Jenkins Reid
"I'm jealous you get to meet her," an employee working behind the scenes at a recent press opportunity for "Daisy Jones & the Six" told some journalists. The "her" in question was not Riley Keough, the star of the Amazon limited series, or any of the show's other female stars. It was Taylor...
Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023
Composer Ludwig Göransson Discusses Rihanna, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," New Series
Ludwig Göransson initially felt tremendous pressure in composing new music for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," with hopes of living up to his Oscar-winning score on the franchise's 2019 epic first film. But instead of dwelling in his successful past, Göransson focused on pushing the sequel's...
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023
Director Joe Talbot Has 2nd Feature In The Offing, Spotmaking Window Via RadicalMedia
Joe Talbot, who recently joined RadicalMedia for global representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos, made his first major splash as a director with The Last Black Man in San Francisco for which he won the Directing Award for a Dramatic Feature, as well as a Special Jury...
Monday, Jan. 16, 2023
N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan Shed Light On "RRR"
Hollywood's awards season has found an unlikely underdog in "RRR." S.S. Rajamouli's three-hour maximalist action epic is one of India's most expensive and top-grossing films of all time. It pairs two of the country's biggest stars, N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan, and topped Netflix streaming...
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023
DGA Award Nominee Alice Diop Discusses "Saint Omer"
In 2016, French documentary filmmaker Alice Diop made an unusual decision. She decided to travel to a town in Northern France to watch the trial of a Senegalese woman, Fabienne Kabou, who one night in 2013 left her 15-month-old daughter on the beach to die. Diop didn't tell anyone she was going...
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023
Director Nelson Cragg Goes Out Partying With "The Boys"
First establishing himself as an accomplished cinematographer--as underscored by an ASC Award win in 2009 for an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (“For Gedda”), and a pair of Emmy nominations in 2013 and 2016, respectively, for episodic lensing on Homeland (“Beirut Is Back”) and The People...
Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022
Noah Baumbach Makes "White Noise," Finds A Cinematic Playground
It was early in the pandemic when filmmaker Noah Baumbach, for the first time in his career, found himself wondering what he was going to do next. 2019 had been a big year, both professionally and in his personal life. He lost his father. He had a child, with partner Greta Gerwig. And both had big...
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022
Naomi Ackie, Director Kasi Lemmons Come Together To Tell Whitney Houston's Story
Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in the new biopic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," is the first to admit that she is not a doppelganger for the pop star. In fact, she'll go so far as to say she doesn't look like her at all. "I was like, are you guys sure? Are you absolutely sure?" Ackie said...
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022
Emperor of Light Roger Deakins Discusses "Empire of Light," Cinema's Past and Future
The first photograph Roger Deakins ever took, in 1969 Bournemouth, England, shows a man and a woman quietly eating lunch on a bench outside a ladies room. A sign reads: "Keep it to yourself." Deakins has taken countless images since that first snap. He's photographed "Fargo," "Kundun" and "The...
Monday, Nov. 14, 2022
Tony Kushner Reflects On Serving As Writer/Therapist For Steven Spielberg and "The Fabelmans"
"The Fabelmans" is Steven Spielberg's most autobiographical movie, but the introspection it required wasn't done in isolation. The film, rather, grew out of conversations between Spielberg and his frequent collaborator Tony Kushner, the "Angels in America" playwright who penned three of Spielberg's...