A Poster Designer’s Career, From Tribute Art to Marvel to “The Mandalorian”
Social media might have more downs than ups these days, but even with its troublesome aspects far outweighing the good, you can still find heartwarming examples of social networks serving their original purpose: bringing together like-minded individuals over niche shared interests. For hobbyist movie poster designers working at a professional albeit non-commissioned level, finding the right community can even launch a career in the film industry.
Formerly a graphic designer working at an agency in Hannover, Germany, the professional poster designer Eileen Steinbach got her start in the industry by posting tribute work on Tumblr,...
Moses Ingram on her Debut role as Jolene in “The Queen’s Gambit”
Moses Ingram stepped off the stage at Yale and immediately onto the set of The Queen’s Gambit. The acting newcomer had only two weeks between graduating from the Yale School of Drama in May of last year and flying to Toronto to begin filming.
“The first scene I filmed was a little snippet of the car pulling up and [me] stepping out of the car,” Ingram said. “I definitely overthought it though because I’m like driving in this old-school,...
George Lucas & Mark Hamill Remember Darth Vader Performer David Prowse
Actor David Prowse, the man who was the literal embodiment of Darth Vader, passed away this past Saturday at 85. The colossal Englishman played Vader in George Lucas’s original Star Wars trilogy, giving the formidable villain an imposing stature, martial gait, and undeniable physical presence in his scenes. Vader towers over everyone, be they Stormtroopers, Jedis, or the Emperor himself. His movements conveyed the immense power his body contained, made all the more potent by the fact he could crush your throat without even touching you...
Marvel Unveils New “Black Panther” Intro Honoring Chadwick Boseman
Marvel Studios revealed a brand new intro for Black Panther yesterday. The new look honors the late, great Chadwick Boseman, who passed away this August at just 43 years old. The reveal, which Marvel shared on Twitter, came on November 29, which would have been Boseman’s 44th birthday.
The new intro reworks the classic Marvel opening of animated images from the comics that highlights Marvel’s deep bench of superheroes. The new introduction focuses solely on Boseman’s T’Challa,...
Taylor Swift’s “folklore: the long pond studio sessions” Available on Disney+
Unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift’s “folklore,” a surprise album from one of the biggest stars in the world, picked up a bunch of Grammy nominations yesterday—six in all—including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for “cardigan.” It was a very different kind of album from Swift, eschewing the uptempo pop production she’s mastered in favor of a mellower, guitar-and-piano-heavy sound. She wrote and recorded the album during the pandemic, and focused less on songs of personal struggles and triumph in favor of telling different kinds of stories from different perspectives...
Hans Zimmer Protégé Guillaume Roussel on Composing the “Black Beauty” Score Remotely
The good news for Guillaume Roussel: this spring he fulfilled a lifelong dream by working with the London Symphony Orchestra. The bad news: he had to supervise the Black Beauty recording sessions from his garage in Los Angeles due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. “It was just after lockdown, so the big frustration came because I was not able to fly to London for the sessions,” says Roussel. “Fortunately, my good friend Gavin Greenaway conducted and did a great job.”...
Welcome to Studio Babelsberg’s Rainbow Stage—A Tribute to Lana and Lilly Wachowski
“I’ll show these people what you don’t want them to see. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.” Neo (Keanu Reeves), The Matrix, 1999
To honor the groundbreaking filmmakers Lana and Lilly Wachowski and simultaneously promote a message of tolerance, respect, and diversity, Germany’s Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam recently renamed its largest sound stage the Rainbow Stage (its previous title was number 20 of 21)...
The Stage is Set for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Growing up in Baltimore as a young Black boy, one of my fondest memories of my beloved city is Lexington Market. I recall as a young boy walking with my mom past the famous indoor market and down West Lexington Street and seeing this beautiful mural of local black artists. One of the artists included in this mural was the legendary Billie Holiday. I was in awe of her beauty. As I got older, I was introduced to her music,...
HBO Max’s Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me” Free to Stream This Thanksgiving
HBO Max has given us all something to savor this Thanksgiving that’s not filled with tryptophan (dissing on turkey here) and much, much better for the mind—Kamilah Forbes’ adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” will be free to stream beginning on November 25 through November 20.
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Writer/Producer’s Ron Leshem on His Groundbreaking HBO Max Series “Valley of Tears”
Writer/producer Ron Leshem has gained international recognition as the creator of the Israeli TV series Euphoria and executive producer of its U.S. adaptation. Along with his longtime collaborator Amit Cohen, Leshem is also known for creating the series The Gordin Cell, Allegiance, and No Man’s Land. But for a decade, the Israeli-born duo have been wanting to produce a story about one of the most important moments in their homeland’s history — the Yom Kippur War...
Documentarian John Dower on “The Mystery of D.B. Cooper”
In 1971, a Boeing 727 flying out of Portland, Oregon was hijacked by a single middle-aged man, operating under the name Dan Cooper. Clad in black, wearing dark sunglasses, and using a bomb in a briefcase as leverage, Cooper demanded four parachutes but only $200,000, and he let the flight’s passengers go in Seattle, where the cash and parachutes were brought aboard. After demanding the pilots fly to Mexico City, he opened the aircraft’s back door over the woods in Washington State,...
Lady Gaga Joins Brad Pitt & Zazie Beetz in Thriller “Bullet Train”
Well, the cast for this film is absolutely bonkers. Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde director David Leitch’s Bullet Train has just called Lady Gaga onboard. Leitch, an verified master of the action sequence, has assembled an incredible cast for this film. The Oscar-winner and multi-talented superstar joins Brad Pitt, Zazie Beetz, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Joey King, Andrew Koji, Masi Oka, and two-time Oscar-nominee and one of the best character actors working,...
Netflix’s “Malcolm & Marie” Starring Zendaya & John David Washington Gets Oscars-Friendly Release Date
There’s a new Oscar-hopeful on the docket. Writer/director Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie, starring two of the most sought-after stars working right now, Zendaya and John David Washington, will be released on Netflix on February 5, 2021. Levinson, Zendaya, Washington, and their crew teamed up to shoot Malcolm & Marie while in quarantine earlier this year. With this release date, the drama is now eligible for the upcoming Academy Awards. It now seems possible that Netflix has a bounty of potential Oscar-nominated films on their hands;...
New “Wonder Woman 1984” Trailer Reveals Christmas Day HBO Max Release
In fairly major news on the release front, a new Wonder Woman 1984 trailer reveals that Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) will be returning to our screens—at long last—in both theaters and streaming on HBO Max on December 25. Director Patty Jenkins’ long-awaited sequel will be available at no extra cost to HBO Max subscribers.
In case you haven’t been following the release status of Wonder Woman 1984, the film premiere date has been delayed three times now due to COVID-19...
First “Scream 5” Images, Title & Release Date Revealed As Sequel Wraps Production
And that’s a wrap, folks! The fifth Scream in the franchise—which we’ve been calling Scream 5 all this time—has wrapped filming. To announce the end of principal photography, original Scream scribe Kevin Williamson took to Twitter to share some photos from set and reveal the film’s title and release date. You ready for this? It’s called Scream! It’ll debut in theaters on January 14, 2022.
The Scream crew managed to wrap production in Wilmington,...
The Trailer for “The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone” Pulls us Back in
In case you missed this bit of news yesterday, Paramount released the trailer for The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. If you haven’t been following the slow-burn buildup to this re-release (of sorts) to co-writer and director Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III, you might be surprised to learn about this film. The Death of Michael Corleone is, in fact, The Godfather: Part III—but—it’s been re-edited,...
“Run” Cinematographer Hillary Spera on Creating Hulu’s Breathless Thriller
Co-writer and director Aneesh Chaganty’s Run moves like a thoroughbred thriller thanks to all its constituent parts working in perfect unison. The stellar cast, led by Sarah Paulson and newcomer Kiera Allen, Chagnaty’s lean script, co-written with Sev Ohanian, and Chagnaty and his crew’s exacting execution. The film is centered on the too-close-for-comfort relationship between a mother in daughter—Diane (Paulson) is a zealously devoted guardian of her daughter Chloe (Allen), who is paralyzed from the waist down and also deals with a variety of other ailments,...
Zack Snyder Reveals New “Justice League” Teaser With Fresh Footage
Behold—a new black-and-white teaser for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. We’ve already seen a colorized version of this teaser, but then again, not quite this teaser. The latest gives us some fresh footage from Snyder’s upcoming film, which will air on HBO Max as a four-part miniseries. Assuming that if you clicked on this story you’ve been paying some attention to the winding road that got us here, this version of Justice League will not only be different from the Joss Whedon-directed version we saw in 2017 but includes new footage from recent reshoots with the cast...
Editor Michelle Tesoro on Checkmate Pacing in “The Queen’s Gambit”
A girl triumphing in a boys’ world of midcentury competitive chess is at the crux of Netflix’s limited series The Queen’s Gambit, which manages to make the board game not only thrilling but evocatively stylish, spanning Beth Harmon’s (Anya Taylor-Joy and Isla Johnston, as young Beth) bleak 1950s-era childhood in a Kentucky orphanage through her jet-setting young adulthood during the 1960s. Beth, drawn from Walter Tevis’s novel of the same name, is a chess prodigy introduced to the game by the Methuen Orphanage’s enigmatic janitor,...
Documentarian Nathan Grossman Captures a Teenage Icon in “I Am Greta”
Swedish documentarian Nathan Grossman made a leap of faith in 2018 when he decided to film an unknown 15-year-old with a sign staging a one-person strike outside the Stockholm Parliament in order to bring attention to the global climate crisis.
Over the course of 18 months of filming, Greta Thunberg became an international figure and an icon to an increasingly energized youth movement around the world demanding immediate action to address climate change. Grossman, who lives in Stockholm,...
