July 3, 2019
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How Spider-Man: Far From Home’s Production Designer Made Europe Pop

...with CG,” says Paré. “Sometimes, movies have to be a little bit on the nose for an audience to quickly catch where you are. This is one of those situations.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9L1jCKGnE London...

July 29, 2019
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Photo Credit: Andrew Cooper

Deconstructing Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s With his Cinematographer Robert Richardson

...that’s exactly what I had in my brain.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6lCcjv-214 Featured image: Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt on the set of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Photo Credit: Andrew Cooper...

July 30, 2019
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'I Am Mother.' Courtesy Netflix.

How I Am Mother's Editor Cut Netflix's Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller

...increasingly nerve-wracking I Am Mother to maximize the tension and dread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BKctcZxrM Working with a central figure who is not human, how did that inform your choices? I imagine filming coverage, cutting...

August 9, 2019
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Production Designer Brent Thomas on Building the Emotional The Art of Racing in the Rain

...are part of that journey now too.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp2ufFO4QGg When speaking with Brent about lending his passion to the big-screen adaptation of Stein’s much-beloved story, I asked if he became familiar with the...

August 13, 2019
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Good Boys Script Supervisor Patti Henderson on the Joys & Challenges of Comedy

...been shot, and everything that hasn’t been shot. We’re the ‘Just the facts’ folks.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPXqwAGmX04 Keeping track of all that has and has not yet been shot, as well as every line...

August 19, 2019
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Brad Pitt stars in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

How Stunt Man Gary Kent Inspired Brad Pitt's Character in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood

...I told Quentin my Charles Manson story,” says Kent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyi0JiaBiWA That story inspired a pivotal sequence in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood when stunt man Cliff Heath, played by Brad Pitt,...

August 19, 2019
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How the Emmy-Nominated Casting Director of When They See Us Found Her Talent

...to take on formidably sober material. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3F9n_smGWY&t=2s How did you find the actors who play the boys when they’re young? They’re all so talented. I think we got a bit lucky with...

August 23, 2019
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Angel Has Fallen's Director & a Former Assistant Director of the Secret Service Talk Riveting Realism

...spoke to director Ric Roman Waugh and technical advisor Mickey Nelson, a former assistant director of the Secret Service, about crafting this immensely suspenseful third installment in the franchise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4AQchYSxwc Ric, this...

August 20, 2019
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Samara Weaving in the film READY OR NOT. Photo by Eric Zachanowich. © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

How Ready or Not’s Editor Amped up the Emotional Stakes

...and kill her. To piece together the film’s puzzle-like structure, the directors looked to editor Terel Gibson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxEWP67MFXU “The script was unlike anything I read before,” Gibson says. “The tone was so...

September 9, 2019
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The Man in the High Castle's Emmy-Nominated VFX Supervisor on Taking Down Lady Liberty

...not just the destruction of Lady Liberty, but Juliana’s capture and successful travel-disappearance, and the Nazis’ unsuccessful world-hopping experimentation, Deming and his team are nominated for an Emmy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIw1RG1yTBE Unexpectedly, the cloistered...