Servant Costume Designer Caroline Duncan on Dressing M. Night Shyamalan’s Thriller
M. Night Shyamalan and Tony Basgallop’s Servant is one of Apple TV+‘s weirdest, wildest new shows. As always with a Shyamalan production, there are creepy twists aplenty on offer here, but there’s more to Servant than narrative surprises—there’s bracing oddness to it, amplified by terrific performances from a great cast and technical mastery from Shyamalan and Basgallop’s talented crew.
Servant is set in Philadelphia (Shyamalan’s preferred location,
Explore Pandora in New Avatar Concept Art for the Upcoming Sequels
James Cameron’s 2009 smash hit Avatar introduced audiences to the alien planet of Pandora. Now, with Cameron having filmed two sequels (both Avatar 2 and 3), he was ready to share some concept art at the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, the annual, large-scale tech show. Cameron is a master at pushing filmmaking technology to its limits—and beyond—and you can be sure that as immersive as Pandora was in the first film,
Director Kate Woods on Faith and Belief in her Netflix Drama Messiah
Early on in the new Netflix drama Messiah, CIA agent Eva (Michelle Monaghan), paradigmatically dogged in her duties, informs a failed prospective job candidate, “the truth may look gray, but I assure you, it is not.” It’s easy to guess that Eva’s next assignment will have her rethinking the office hiring policy. After she becomes aware of a long-locked, proselytizing enigma first spotted preaching mid-sandstorm to a band of followers in Damascus,
Christian Bale Might be Joining Thor: Love and Thunder
Batman in the Marvel Universe? Well, sort of, and possibly. Collider reports that Christian Bale, the Oscar-winning actor and the star of Christopher Nolan’s excellent Dark Knight trilogy, is currently in talks to join Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Love and Thunder is Waititi’s follow-up to his universally beloved Thor: Ragnarok, which came out in 2017 and substantially changed Chris Hemsworth’s titular Asgardian God of Thunder into one of Marvel’s funniest superheroes.
The First Trailer for The New Mutants is Finally Here
Folks have been waiting a long, long time for a look at Josh Boone’s X-Men spinoff The New Mutants, and we’ve finally got it. Written by Boone and Knate Lee, The New Mutants centers on a team of young mutants who are being treated, so to speak, at a secret facility where they’re trying to understand and control their incredible abilities.
The New Mutants was shot in 2017,
How Editor Lee Smith & Sound Editor Oliver Tarney Crafted the Immersive Story of 1917
If you caught last night’s Golden Globes, you saw Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917 take home both Best Film (Drama) and Best Director for Mendes himself. 1917 bested some very steep competition, including Martin Scorsese’s mob epic The Irishman, Todd Phillips Joker, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Mendes’ film is practically flawless.
Now imagine you’re a picture editing working on a project where the story is utterly personal to the director,
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Leads 2020 Golden Globe Winners
Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s glorious Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood were two of the night’s big winners at your 2020 Golden Globes. With Oscar voting already underway, this year’s Globes are even more relevant than ever.
Tarantino’s love letter to a bygone era of Hollywood scooped up three awards, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Screenplay for Tarantino himself,
Hidden Life’s Production Designer on Working in Terrence Malick’s World
Production designer Sebastian T. Krawinkel recalls his first meeting about potentially working on Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, which he describes as “almost a conspiracy meeting.” He art directed both V for Vendetta and Speed Racer some years back, and two of Hidden Life’s producers, Henning Molfenter and Charlie Woebcken, had co-produced those.
Krawinkel was handed “a rough outline,
Freya Allan & Anya Chalotra on Playing The Witcher’s Powerful Women
For millions of excited fans around the world, the first season of Netflix’s long-anticipated fantasy series The Witcher has not disappointed. The show is based on the best-selling novels and short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and the subsequent video games based on the stories, which have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. The Witcher follows three powerful individuals with colliding destinies living on a continent full of magic and monsters,
1917′s Production Designer on Building a World at War
How good is director Sam Mendes’ World War I epic 1917? Let’s begin with a brief anecdote about one of his collaborators—the legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, who originally wasn’t sure it was even possible to pull off what Mendes was after. That was to film 1917 as if it was all a single, continuous shot. But once Deakins read Mendes and screenwriter Krsty Wilson-Cairns script,
How Color and Cut Transformed the Characters of Little Women
In the opening scene of writer-director Greta Gerwig’s adaption of Little Women, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) walks into the New York offices of the Weekly Volcano and offers a novella to its publisher Mr. Dashwood (Tracy Letts), who chuckles at its jokes, editing as he reads. Jo sits across, hiding her ink covered hands and wearing a Marengo-colored jacket that drapes a comfy, black sweater. A white collar peeks out from her neck.
Oscar Watch: How Parasite’s Editor Helped Shape Thrilling Shifts in Tone
Palme d’Or winner and Best Picture Oscar contender Parasite shocked audiences this autumn on the strength of writer-director editor of Bong Joon-ho‘s meticulously constructed blend of comedy, melodrama and thriller elements. The story follows the poor but well-educated grifters in the Park family, who insinuate themselves into the lives of the wealthy Kim household by posing as an earnest tutor, housekeeper, and chauffeur. When the Park teenagers and their parents conspire to wrest domestic control from the Kims’
Monsters—People Included—Haunt A Quiet Place: Part II’s Official Trailer
The official trailer for John Krasinski‘s A Quiet Place: Part II is here, folks. After his thrilling, out-of-nowhere creature feature in 2018, Krasinski is back with a follow-up that centers around the surviving members of the Abbott family as they fight to stay alive in a monster-haunted world, now facing new threats—other people.
The new trailer gives us a glimpse of what life was like the day the sound-hunting aliens first appeared in a thrilling minute-plus of action.
J.J. Abrams on Why He Made Rey’s Parents [SPOILER ALERT] in The Rise of Skywalker
There are big spoilers ahead folks. If you haven’t seen Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker yet, stop reading. If that’s the case, you can read this primer on what you need to remember about the major plot points in Star Wars before seeing Rise.
So arguably one of the biggest questions that has been around since J.J. Abrams kicked off the new trilogy with The Force Awakens in 2015 is who Rey (Daisy Ridley)’s parents are.
Sam Mendes & Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns on Their Epic WWI Drama 1917
1917 is the story of an urgent message and the two WWI soldiers who have to deliver it to prevent hundreds of their fellow British troops from walking into a trap. We accompany them on an arduous, dangerous journey in what appears to be one long, breathtaking shot. In an interview with The Credits, director Sam Mendes and his co-screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns talked about the research they did for the film and how they crafted this meticulously constructed,
Best of 2019: Orange Is the New Black’s Production Designer Malchus Janocko’s Favorite Sets
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Production designer Malchus Janocko set out to be a painter and glassblower before he discovered show business as a livelihood. Janocko art-directed the glossy Gossip Girl, then channeled small-town Americana for the first season of The Leftovers before taking a deep dive into the muted world of incarceration dramatized in Orange Is the New Black.
Best of 2019: Deconstructing Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s With his Cinematographer Robert Richardson
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When you dig past the humorous and unnerving storylines of Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, you’ll find a serious tale about friendship.
Set in 1969, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a fading Western star trying to stay relevant in Tinseltown has one sure thing—his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
Best of 2019: Writer/Director Noah Baumbach on his Devastating Marriage Story
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Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s substantial body of work has often explored families in all their painful, darkly funny dysfunction, evolving from the perspective of an adolescent witness to the break-up of his parents in his 2005 second feature, the Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, to the poignant, middle-aged observations of a son coming to terms with his estranged family and self-absorbed father in 2017’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).
Best of 2019: Watchmen’s Costume Designer Meghan Kasperlik on This Extraordinary Series
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Now that Watchmen has made its glorious debut on HBO and confounded just about every expectation, we can say with confidence that Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel is a remarkable testament to the original and a bold, powerful piece of original storytelling itself. The reason is Lindelof and his incredible team of writers,
Best of 2019: How Ford v Ferrari’s Production Designer Rebuilt the World’s Greatest Race Track Piece-by-Piece
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James Mangold‘s Ford v Ferrari revisits one of the greatest car races in history. It began back in 1959 when Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) wins the most difficult race in the world, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in France. The problem for Shelby is his crowning achievement is also his last race—doctors tell him a heart condition makes it impossible for him to race again.
