Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023

Carey Mulligan recently realized that she's spent much of her professional career holding back.

That might be surprising to hear for an actor with two Oscar nominations, a Tony nod and a laundry list of extraordinary films and enviable roles. She just didn't get precious about it and...

Monday, Dec. 18, 2023

Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure on Broadway. So it seems only fitting that the new biopic of him leans on the Great White Way to get the story right.

Bradley Cooper's movie "Maestro" is studded with theater stars — 29 of the 38 principal cast members have a background in the...

Friday, Dec. 8, 2023

Michelle Tesoro, ACE had just finished recutting the independent film Flag Day with director-actor Sean Penn. Bradley Cooper saw the movie and asked Penn about Tesoro, which led to her eventually being handed the figurative editor’s baton to take on Maestro (Netflix).

As...

Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023

Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein's very public life as a conductor while diving into his more private marriage to Felicia Montealegre. How each side of Bernstein's existence interacts with the...

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual emergence of at least one difference between the Best Director Oscar and DGA Award nominee lineups. In only five of the 71 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This time...

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019

The Directors Guild of America unveiled the nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2018, as well as the nods for the First-Time Feature Film Director honor.

Earning nominations in both categories was Bradley Cooper for his feature...

Friday, Jan. 4, 2019

Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Olivia Colman and other Oscar contenders kicked off Hollywood’s 2019 awards season with an emotional trip to the desert city of Palm Springs.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival gala was a familiar setting for Cooper, who received director of the year...

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018

It's hard not to go into "A Star Is Born " without a lot of prejudgments. Even if you haven't seen the other three versions, the mere fact that they exist, and with such formidable talent, is enough to make anyone scoff at the fact that Hollywood keeps dusting off this well-worn story about fame...

Monday, Oct. 1, 2018

When Bradley Cooper saw Lady Gaga perform "La Vie en Rose" at a fundraiser at the home of entrepreneur Sean Parker, it wasn't one of the important moments along the road to making "A Star Is Born." It was, Cooper says, THE moment.

"She demolished the room," he recalls, still wide-eyed...

Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2018

Warner Bros. Pictures brought out the big names for its CinemaCon presentation Tuesday, from stars like Sandra Bullock to movies like "Wonder Woman 2," but it was Bradley Cooper's "A Star is Born" that stole the show.

Cooper showed the emotional first trailer for the film to conference...

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