Chatting With WarnerMedia’s Senior Vice President of Equity & Inclusion Karen Horne
Karen Horne has been working to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities for more or less her entire career. WarnerMedia’s Senior Vice President of Equity and Inclusion Programs has been creating results-oriented programs across a wide swath of the entertainment, sports, and news divisions for more than two decades. “I’ve always wanted to work in this field,” Horne says of her work. “Also, I’ve never had a plan B.”
The pipeline programs Horne has implemented at WarnerMedia since 2020 alone have been crucial,
New “Top Gun: Maverick” Trailer Sees Tom Cruise Back in the Danger Zone
Pete “Maverick” Mitchell might be not a young hotshot flyboy anymore, but the dude can still go Mach 4 with his hair on fire. Maverick is played, of course, by Tom Cruise, who returns to the role that made him an international superstar way back in 1986 when the original Top Gun took flight. Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, which opens with a bunch of hotshot young flyboys and girls showing off and peacocking in front of each other,
“Moon Knight” Early Reviews Highlight Fresh, Funny, & Ambitiously Unique Marvel Series
The reviews for Marvel’s Moon Knight are starting to make their way online. One of the key takeaways thus far is that Marvel Studios has once again delivered an entirely different series, in tone and tenor, than what came before it. Beginning with WandaVision, the very first live-action series on Disney+, it’s been clear that while each new show is a card in the massive MCU deck, they are also unique specimens shaped by the talents and passions of their cast and crew.
Chris Hemsworth Shares “Extraction 2” Update Including Insane Helicopter Stunt
Director Sam Hargrave and star Chris Hemsworth teamed up for one of the most satisfying action films in recent years with Extraction in 2020, a nimbly directed, relentless action-thriller that deployed Hemsworth as a brutally effective, morally adrift mercenary with the unimprovable name of Taylor Rake. The story was centered on Rake taking on a job to rescue a crime lord’s son—lucrative work, but insanely dangerous. At the end of the film,
Marvel Reveals New “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Photos
We’ve got a fresh look at director Sam Raimi’s highly-anticipated return to Marvel moviemaking, folks. Four new images for Raimi’s upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness have arrived, revealing a few of the good Doctor’s allies in his coming battle with forces that might, at last, be beyond his control. Let the MCU experts dissect these new images for clues to the upcoming saga, which includes our first glimpse at Xochitl Gomez,
“CODA” Wins Best Picture at a Wild Oscars
Well, we’d be living in a better world if the 94th Academy Awards would be remembered for CODA‘s remarkable Best Picture win. It was five years ago when we wrote about what we believed at the time was the most shocking night in Oscars history. That was when Damien Chazelle’s La La Land was announced as the Best Picture winner only for the world to find out,
“The Batman” Deleted Scene Reveals a Major Confrontation With SPOILER ALERT
Riddle me this—who might be the most unexpected person Batman (Robert Pattinson) might turn to for help in capturing the Riddler (Paul Dano)? How about the Joker (Barry Keoghan)? In a new deleted scene revealed by writer/director Matt Reeves, Batman visits Gotham’s most notorious Clown Prince of Chaos in Arkham asylum to seek his help in catching the latest psychopath to terrorize the city.
Reeves has even created his own series of riddles on this website which,
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” Oscar-Nominated Hair & Makeup Team on Helping Chastain Channel Faye
Come this Sunday at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, and Justin Raleigh may all win their first gold statuette for hair and makeup. The makeup department head, hair department head, and head special makeup effects artist, respectively, are nominated for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the biopic starring Jessica Chastain, nominated for lead actress, and Andrew Garfield as the renowned and scandal-ridden evangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker.
Oscar-Nominated “The Power of the Dog” Editor Peter Sciberras on Building Unbearable Tension
Jane Campion’s tense, character-driven Western, The Power of the Dog, is a critical favorite and Oscar frontrunner. The film’s vast landscapes (shot in New Zealand, much to the chagrin of actors not involved with the movie) are a backdrop to a slow-moving family melodrama: sweet and earnest George (Jesse Plemons) marries widowed Rose (Kirsten Dunst), bringing out the worst in Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch), George’s volatile, curiously standoffish brother.
The brothers are also partners in a successful ranch,
How Oscar Isaac Figured Out How to Play His “Moon Knight” Character
Oscar Isaac didn’t leap at the chance to join the MCU. Not that Isaac was against finding a home in the most successful interconnected film and TV universe ever created out of hand, but he’d just completed a slew of major productions. First, he wrapped Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2018. Then, despite wanting to take a break, he couldn’t resist joining Denis Villeneuve’s Dune to play Duke Leo Atreides in January 2019.
“Flee” Director Jonas Rasmussen on His Historic Triple Oscar-Nominated Doc
Director Jonas Rasmussen remembers being a kid in Denmark and watching television news in 1990 when the first McDonald’s opened in Moscow, supposedly signifying a brave new world of post-Soviet capitalism. Rasmussen never could have imagined that the Afghan refugee standing just outside of the camera range would one day star in his acclaimed documentary Flee. The only movie in Oscar history to be triple-nominated in Best Foreign Language, Best Documentary, and Best Animation categories,
Oscar-Nominated Re-Recording Sound Mixer Paul Massey on “No Time To Die”
“When I started out, I had no objective whatsoever to become a re-recording mixer,” says Paul Massey, who may well be the most accomplished accidental Oscar winner in history. Growing up in London, Massey played trumpet in wedding bands, worked at a recording studio and then, he says, “I made a slow, totally unintentional transition to film post-production.”
Like Ridley Scott, one of his most frequent collaborators, Massey, Academy Award winner for Bohemian Rhapsody,
Oscar-Nominated “Dune” Screenwriter Jon Spaihts on Decoding Frank Herbert’s Tome
For Dune‘s Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jon Spaihts, the opportunity to help Denis Villeneuve find a way to crack the elusive code to adapting Frank Herbert’s magisterial, meaty sci-fi tome came at a funny time. “I’d decided I wanted to focus on a personal project that I’d direct myself, so I told my reps, ‘No new jobs,'” Spaiths says. “Then my agent called and said Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune, and I said,
New “Stranger Things” Season 4 Images Tease Deeper, Darker Horror Vibes
Netflix has just given us our first glimpse of Stranger Things season four, volume one. That’s right, the long-awaited return of the gang from Hawkins is coming to us in two parts thanks to the fact that Duffer Brothers simply couldn’t fit everything they wanted to do with the next installment in a traditional single-volume season. The images reveal that, as promised, season 4’s two parts will lead us into darker territory,
Oscar-Nominated “Dune” DP Greig Fraser on Taming an Epic Sci-Fi Beast
Denis Villeneuve is the director to finally tame a film version of Dune, Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel that, over the decades, accidentally spawned a cottage industry of unsuccessful visual projects (see: David Lynch’s 1984 Dune, the SyFy channel’s attempt in 2000, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune, which never saw the light of day). Casting Timothée Chalamet as young prince Paul Atreides and Zendaya as Chani of the Fremen,
How the Oscar-Nominated “tick, tick…BOOM!” Editors Evoked the Excitement of Live Theatre
The magic of live theatre is a precious element that is often elusive to the lens. Countless legendary Broadway performances have sparkled and faded in a night, rarely ever recorded. Even a long run of a popular musical will never see the exact same show cross the stage twice.
Many movie adaptations of musicals are enormous affairs with extravagant sets, costumes, and visual details that fill in the gaps that exist only in the imagination of a live audience.
Chris Hemsworth Teases Intense “Extraction 2” Action Scene
Chris Hemsworth knows his way around an action scene, but his work as Tyler Rake in the first Extraction was about as intense as it gets. Now, Hemsworth has teased a scene from Extraction 2, which will pick up sometime after the end of the first film, you know, after Rake was shot, fell off a bridge, and presumably died. Tyler Rake’s survival in director Sam Hargrave’s hit film seemed likely but was far from definite when the credits rolled—then Netflix made Hemsworth’s return to the role in the sequel official at their big Tudum event this past September.
“Dune” Oscar-Nominated Sound Team on Sandworms, Ornithopters & More
The experience of seeing writer/director Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated epic Dune was, for this viewer, as much an auditory experience as it was a visual one. The sounds of the alien world depicted in part one of Villeneuve’s two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel are mesmerizing, from the whispering sands shifting across the desert planet of Arrakis to the oddly soothing purr of the dragon fly-winged aircraft, the ornithopter. For supervising sound editor Mark Mangini and supervising sound editor and sound designer Theo Green,
New “Moon Knight” Clip Reveals Ethan Hawke’s Villain Arthur Harrow
“Summon the suit,” May Calamawy’s Layla El-Faouly says at the start of a brand new Moon Knight clip, only the second we’ve seen of Marvel’s upcoming series on Disney+. Layla is talking to Stephen Grant (Oscar Isaac), a decidedly unheroic gift shop employee who doesn’t yet know he’s also a mercenary named Marc Spector who has a super-suit, and a superhero alter ego, that turns him into Moon Knight. The clip reveals a few things,
“The Adam Project” Screenwriter Jonathan Tropper on Teaming With Ryan Reynolds & Shawn Levy
The development of The Adam Project has its own time-traveling origin story, one that dates back roughly ten years. Screenwriter Jonathan Tropper says the production took flight, in part, because of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) which stars Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Dwayne Johnson in a reboot of the beloved Robin Williams’ film that sucks them into a video game in an adventurous fight for survival.
“Before Jumanji came out,
