October 22, 2024
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Lights, Camera, Recreation: "Saturday Night" Production Designer Jess Gonchor on Bringing "SNL"'s Studio to Life

...control room, which on paper seems academic and easy. Somebody’s going to go into a control room and see monitors, but in some of these environments, you really fly through pretty quickly....

August 20, 2024
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"The Room Next Door" Trailer Unveils Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar's Latest

It’s a trio made in film lover heaven—Spanish writer/director extraordinaire Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton teamed up for the auteur’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door. Sony...

December 21, 2015
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Cinematographer Danny Cohen on Room & The Danish Girl

...Room. How did you and director Lenny Abrahamson establish the look and feel Room initially? What was your game plan? That's a very difficult question. I mean, it's more of a process....

October 19, 2016
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Designated Survivor's Production Designer on Creating a Dystopian D.C.

...accurate as we could. Their views across the hall too, like the Roosevelt room, it’s all a little more open so you can actually look into the room.  Walking around we really...

June 22, 2018
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The Indoraptor prepares to strike in "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Welcome to "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." Photo Credit: Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s Production Designer Takes on the Indoraptor

...room. Does it look stupid ducking into the space? We came up with the diorama room having a mezzanine, but then had to figure out how the Indoraptor gets up there. If...

January 2, 2018
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Oscar Watch: The Disaster Artist Composer on Memorializing the Best Bad Movie Ever

...Wiseau and Greg Sestero set out to make The Room, a ‘real Hollywood movie’ that is often regarded as one of the worst movies ever made. Ironically, their story has inspired one...

June 11, 2018
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Westworld’s Production Designer Breaks Down Season 2

...have. I laid out all her story point bullets happening in this room and designed the room around that. The whole room was really based on that shot idea of Lisa’s. How...

February 19, 2021
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Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton appear in "Mass," by Fran Kranz. Photo by Ryan Jackson-Healy.

Director Fran Kranz & Editor Yang-Hua Hu on Their Heartbreaking Film “Mass”

...cannot face it until the moment they are in the room. And the film takes place almost entirely in one room. What are the challenges that that brings as a director and...

June 2, 2022
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Adam Scott and Britt Lower in “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+.

“Severance” Production Designer Jeremy Hindle's Dystopian Office Space

“Large room, four desks.” That’s the only description production designer Jeremy Hindle had to work with when he came up with this TV season’s most spookily immaculate office, as seen in Apple...

November 30, 2023
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How "Saltburn" Production Designer Suzie Davies Imbued a Palatial Estate With Sinister Detailing

...room, rip out a bedroom, put in another bathroom. That was really satisfying because you can use the idiosyncrasies of a real location to make something special with composited sets that look...