August 28, 2014
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Moira Walley-Beckett: Emmy-Winning Writer of Breaking Bad's Best Episode

...breathtaking moment in an episode full of them, Walt finally comes clean to Jesse about what happened to his girlfriend, Jane…in order to hurt him. "I watched Jane die…I was there, and I...

November 6, 2015
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The Top Ten Best Bond Villains & Their Bizarre Quirks

...his proclivity for inhumane practices, but when he sustains a gunshot wound in combat, the bullet lodges in his head, dooming him to die as it slowly migrates towards the more critical...

June 1, 2020
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The High Note Director Nisha Ganatra on the Importance of a Diverse Cast & Crew

...worried. I figured if she couldn’t sing, there are tools to make people sound good, but it really would have been a shame. What wound up being captured was the emotion of...

December 24, 2020
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Best of 2020: The High Note Director Nisha Ganatra on the Importance of a Diverse Cast & Crew

...year to come. This interview was originally published on June 1 As a worthy follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2019 comedy Late Night, director Nisha Ganatra brings us The High Note, which...

May 26, 2015
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Writer/Director Garrett Bradley is an Artist to Watch

...Tameka Norris. She comes from a fine arts background and I come from a film background. We actually co-wrote a script together. I directed on set and then we duplicated our hard drive...

September 2, 2021
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“Untold: Breaking Point” Creators Examine Tennis Star Mardy Fish’s Battle With Severe Anxiety

...history of understanding tennis, they had been around the game. We talked about their issues with mental health or people around them. They knew my story extremely well and what I was...

January 8, 2020
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Oscar Watch: The Lion King's VFX Supervisor's Groundbreaking New Techniques

...the stage and you have to manipulate them to complete the characterization. It’s in that vein except it’s all done on the computer and not done in the physical world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i0K81zqHyI&t=2s How...

September 12, 2012
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Summing It Up, Boiling It Down: The Art of the Movie Tagline

...that order.” For Open Season, which was an animated comedy about animals fighting back against hunters, the line was: “All fur one, one fur all.” For The Expendables 2, it was “Time...

December 16, 2013
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Playing Dress Up with American Hustle Costume Designer Michael Wilkinson

...a grittier, edgier vibe. And he had to cover a lot of ground, from the fashionistas of Manhattan to the fur-wearing housewives of Long Island and blue-collar residents of Camden, New Jersey....

October 16, 2015
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Goosebumps VFX supervisor Erik Nordby on Creating R.L. Stine's Monsters

...reference spheres. During pre-production we were tracking down many fur samples, and Rob helped us pick a good, solid real-world equivalent for our furry creatures. We wrapped the samples around spheres, and...