Black Panther Co-Writer Joe Robert Cole on Writing & Directing His New Netflix Feature All Day and a Night
“Great stories have great characters, and the key to great characters is empathy,” says writer-director Joe Robert Cole, whose latest film, All Day and a Night, is now streaming on Netflix. “Every film, television show, or story that I work on, I approach from character first and let that lead the way.”
All Day and a Night is a young black man’s coming of age drama,
It’s Official: Taika Waititi Will Co-Write & Direct a Star Wars Movie
Perhaps the biggest surprise to come from yesterday’s official Star Wars May the 4th holiday was the news that Thor: Ragnarok writer/director Taika Waititi, fresh off winning an Oscar for his Jojo Rabbit script, is officially co-writing and directing a new Star Wars film. Waititi will be co-writing the script with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who herself is coming off an Oscar nomination for co-writing 1917 with director Sam Mendes.
9-1-1: Lone Star Cinematographer Andrew Strahorn on Sitting Tight
Cinematographer Andrew Strahorn recently took part in our first ever Film School Friday event, in which he joined Stacy Osei-Kuffour, a writer on HBO’s stellar Watchmen, composer Brandon Campbell, whose work includes Game of Thrones, and actress Tamlyn Tomita, who recently starred as Commodore Oh on the critically acclaimed Star Trek: Picard. Strahorn himself had been a very busy man,
Hollywood Production Designer Matthew Ferguson Helps Build Ryan Murphy’s Gorgeous Alternate History
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix limited series Hollywood has all the glitz and glamor of 1940s Hollywood but with an alternate spin on history. We chat with production designer Matthew Ferguson about the challenge of getting the period details right and finding the balance between fact and fiction. The show debuted this past May 1 on Netflix.
Murphy and his team envision an alternative history of Hollywood in 1947,
May the 4th Be With You on This Star Wars Day
Happy Star Wars Day, folks, and May the 4th be with you. Today is the first day in history that you can now stream all 9 films in the Skywalker Saga in one place—Disney+. You may also want to brush up on what makes May the 4th a Star Wars holiday. A quick history lesson: the apocryphal story is that the first reference came on May 4,
Costume Designers Revive Late Forties Glamour for Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood
Writer-producer Ryan Murphy and his team envision an outrageously optimistic alternative history of the movie business in 1947 via their new show Hollywood. Debuting May 1 on Netflix, the period melodrama boasts a huge ensemble headed by David Corenswet as a fresh-faced actor who works as a gigolo before getting his big break. Along the way, he meets a black screenwriter/prostitute (Jeremy Pope), the voracious wife of a studio boss (Patti LuPone),
New Photo From The Set of Avatar 2 Reveals Sigourney Weaver
Doctor Grace Augustine is back. Well, okay, not entirely. The great Sigourney Weaver is back for James Cameron’s Avatar 2, despite her character dying in Cameron’s 2009 original Avatar. Weaver was one of the marquee names assembled for the ever-ambitious director’s massive Avatar sequels, we just don’t know in what role. Now, a new image from producer Jon Landau shows Weaver back in the saddle,
Costumers Organize to Make 16,000 Protective Masks
Seven weeks ago, costumer Nickolaus Brown expected he’d be spending this spring in Atlanta outfitting Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds for their Netflix action flick Red Notice. Instead, he’s now hunched over a sewing machine in his Los Angeles home, making masks for hospital workers. On a recent afternoon, Brown explained, “I’ve done eight so far and I’ve got twelve more to go, so it’s going to be twenty by the end of the day.”
Film Location Scouts Help New York City Find Hospital Space
The film community has been pitching in to help the healthcare industry deal with the spread of COVID-19, and now the New York Times reports a new way in which filmmakers have stepped up; helping New York City find hospital space.
There are few folks who know a given city or area better than location scouts, who have a granular understanding of everything from storefronts to parks,
Streaming Films Will Be Eligible for the Oscars 2021 Ceremony
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has voted to allow films that did not have a theatrical run this year to be eligible for Oscars until further notice. The Academy is responding to the unprecedented shutdown of movie theaters due to the coronavirus pandemic in order to flatten the curve of the spread, with many huge film release dates moved out 2020 completely. Considering the reality of the current state of the film industry,
See How They Created This Epic Lightsaber Duel inStar Wars: The Clone Wars
If you’re a Star Wars fan who hasn’t yet made the leap to their animated series, last Friday’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars might be the thing that finally gets you to give it a chance. The episode, “The Phantom Apprentice,” contained—truly—one of the greatest lightsaber duels in Star Wars history. The clash was between Clone Wars heroine Ahsoka Tano and everyone’s favorite horned villain,
Director Martha Stephens on Her Timeless Coming-of-Age Drama To the Stars
Yearning, acceptance, identity, and female friendship and empowerment: They are all integral themes of director Martha Stephens’ coming-of-age tale, To the Stars. The film, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, is available for digital download now.
Set in 1960s rural Oklahoma, To The Stars features Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom) and Liana Liberato (If I Stay) as Iris and Maggie,
Russo Brothers Share Epic Trove of Brand New Avengers: Endgame Videos & Photos
Are you prepared for just an astonishing amount of juicy behind-the-scenes videos and photos from Avengers: Endgame? The Russo Brothers have prepared an epic meal for you, either way, celebrating the fact that it was a year and two days ago that their historic film came out. Yes, a year ago might as well have been a lifetime ago considering everything that’s happened since, which is what makes this trip down time-traveling,
Netflix Goes On Tour With Michelle Obama in Becoming
“I crave some experiences with young people,” Michelle Obama says at the outset of the trailer for Becoming, a new documentary from director Nadia Hallgren that focuses on the former First Lady’s life. “Through the community events, the tour could do a great job of giving me a little taste of it,” she continues. Then we find ourselves with Obama in a room full of young women. One asks her how it feels to finally be back to her “normal life”
Ava DuVernay Assembles All-Star Film Talent For Thursday’s Array Film Fellowship Tweet-A-Thon
The details of director Ava DuVernay’s fourth Array Film Fellowship tweet-a-thon are here, and they speak to an epic event. The talented DuVernay, who takes it as her mission to elevate the entertainment industry as well as make her own, must-see films and series, has conjured an A-list cast of film talent to aid her in her online, wide-ranging event. Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins, Oscar-winner and all-around legend Guillermo del Toro,
Watch The Goonies Cast Reunite With Host Josh Gad
If you’re looking for a pick-me-up on this Monday, you can’t do much better than The Goonies cast reunion currently being hosted by Josh Gad. Like millions of us old enough to have come of age in the 80s, Gad is a big-time Goonies fan, and he’s done us all a solid by getting the original cast members together for an epic reunion on his YouTube page. They may look a little different,
The Complete Skywalker Saga Comes to Disney+ on May 4th
At long last, the entire, 9-film Skywalker Saga will be available for streaming all in one place. Disney+ has announced the release date of The Complete Skywalker Saga on that very special Star Wars holiday May the 4th. The 9th and final film in the saga, J.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is streaming a whole two months earlier, giving fans the complete saga while we’re all maintaining social distancing at home.
Makeup Artist Matteo Silvi Tries to Rough Up Chris Hemsworth in Extraction
Makeup artist Matteo Silvi is used to traveling the world on film assignments. For example, his recent work with actor Chris Hemsworth on Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and Men in Black: International took Silvi to England, Scotland, Morocco, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Extraction, which debuted this past Friday, April 24, is no different. The high-octane actioner starring Hemsworth as Tyler Rake,
Stunt-Coordinator-Turned-Director Sam Hargrave on His Action-Packed Debut Extraction
If you’re searching for an edge-of-your-seat movie experience to escape the current COVID-19 reality for a couple of hours, look no further than Extraction, streaming on Netflix beginning April 24. The film stars Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who is called upon to rescue the kidnapped son of an incarcerated crime lord. The seemingly straightforward mission becomes complicated when Rake develops compassion for the kid and is intent on protecting him at all costs.
Let Jo March Help You Celebrate World Intellectual Property Day!
Let’s be honest. World Intellectual Property Day (which is this Sunday, April 26) doesn’t immediately stir up the same – uh – partying frisson as Saint Paddy’s day, in terms of breaking out the frothy malt beverages, busting out in green clothes, and for some, making dubious claims of birthright attachment to the Emerald Isle. It’s hard to think of this particular observational day as an excuse to party on with our IPR rights-owning bad selves till it’s 1999 (assuming we’re not IPR-lifting from our beloved Prince to even say that).
