December 16, 2019
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Credit: Scott Garfield. © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Tom Cruise Breaks the Hard Deck in New Top Gun: Maverick Trailer

...trailer below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4U4BQW9OEk Featured image: Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Credit: Scott Garfield. © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation....

December 18, 2019
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Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns on Helping Sam Mendes Write his WWI Epic 1917

...the idea in his head would look like a long continuous take. It changes everything before the script. You’re telling the story in real-time.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcmZN0Mbl04&t=1s But even “real-time” had its challenges: “As...

December 20, 2019
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Best of 2019: Avengers: Endgame Visual Effects Supervisor on Happy Hulk, Lebowski Thor & More

...mouth full,” says DeLeeuw. “It’s incredibly subtle stuff, but it adds to the realism of everything.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKr3m6r9NI&t=12s A sense of realism was also key to the characters’ time travel exploits—to go into...

December 20, 2019
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Best of 2019: Carmen Ejogo on her Pivotal Role in True Detective's Season Three

...to it an essential, quiet grace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUcGXCLs9x0 You took on the role of Amelia having only seen scripts for the first three episodes. How did you decide to commit, and once you...

December 20, 2019
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Best of 2019: Spencer Averick on Finding Truth & Humanity in the Edit of When They See Us

...had on those in the boys’ orbit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3F9n_smGWY Part two of the series, for example, deals with the teenagers’ sentencing, which was done separately both in real life and in DuVernay’s retelling....

December 20, 2019
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Caption: JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur Fleck in Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s “JOKER,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise

Best of 2019: Joker's Makeup Designer on Creating the Clown Prince of Chaos

...I loved being with him every day.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY As she worked with Phoenix, Ledermann realized something else — how uneasy he was with the application process. The actor loved the final results,...

December 20, 2019
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Best of 2019: How Us Cinematographer Michael Gioulakis Captured Doppelgangers in the Dark

...screen.” Featured image: The Wilson family doppelgängers (from left) Abraham (Winston Duke), Umbrae (Shahadi Wright Joseph), Pluto (Evan Alex) and Red (Lupita Nyong’o) in “Us,” written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele....

December 20, 2019
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Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in 'Marriage Story.' Courtesy Netflix.

Best of 2019: Writer/Director Noah Baumbach on his Devastating Marriage Story

...lawyer up. She hires the high powered Nora Fanshaw (Laura Dern); he teams first with the rumpled Bert Spitz (Alan Alda), and then moves to a more aggressive litigator (Ray Liotta). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHi-a1n8t7M&t=2s...

December 18, 2019
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L-r: Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, and Emily Blunt in 'A Quiet Place: Part II.' Courtesy Paramount Pictures.

Here's Your First Glimpse at A Quite Place: Part II

...the full trailer debuts on New Year’s Day. A Quiet Place: Part II opens in theaters on March 20, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbynQn2_0RU Here’s the official synopsis for A Quiet Place Part II: Following...

January 7, 2020
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Mehdi Dehbi in MESSIAH. Photo by Hiba Judeh/Netflix

Director Kate Woods on Faith and Belief in her Netflix Drama Messiah

...of a rural church in the middle of a tornado, where he saves the struggling local pastor’s daughter. So much for just another rabble-rousing con-man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLWuzGVyew Toggling between squabbling government agents, the...