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From Sunset Boulevard to Gemini Man With Paramount Archivist Andrea Kalas

Say you’re in charge of Paramount Pictures archives, and someone on your team unearths some unsigned sheet music from the era of silent films (yes, silent films included sheet music, more on that in a minute), what would you do? If you’re Andrea Kalas, Senior Vice President of Paramount’s Archives, you simply hand it over to your music archivist and ask her to play it.

“My music archivist has a piano in her office because she sometimes has to pick up a piece of sheet music to identify something,”

By Bryan Abrams  |  November 5, 2019
See how They Digitally Created a Young Will Smith in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man

The last time we checked in with Ang Lee’s sci-fi thriller Gemini Man, we were unpacking the first trailer. Now Paramount Pictures has released a behind-the-scenes featurette, giving us a better sense of what Lee has up his sleeve for his latest film. The basic premise of Gemini Man is fairly straight forward: hitman Henry Brogen (Will Smith) faces off against a younger version of himself. The 50-year-old Henry versus the 23-year-old “Junior”

By The Credits  |  July 24, 2019
It’s Will Smith vs. Will Smith in First Gemini Man Trailer

Is there anyone who gives you a harder time than yourself? Are you not your own biggest enemy? These questions and more might spring to mind when you check out the first trailer for Ang Lee‘s Gemini Man. The film features two Will Smith’s for the price of one. A younger version of Smith, de-aged, is sent after the older version to take him out. The de-aging process has been growing in leaps and bounds lately,

By Bryan Abrams  |  April 23, 2019