It’s Magic vs. Larry in “Winning Time” Season 2 Teaser

“My friends, the future of sports is purple and gold.”

This is how Lakers owner Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) greets us in the opening seconds of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty‘s season 2 teaser, but there’s another team from the other side of the country that would suggest the future of sports is green and white.

The first season explored Magic Johnson’s (Quincy Isaiah) arrival in Los Angeles as Buss,

By The Credits  |  June 12, 2023

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“Arnold” DP Logan Schneider on Shooting Schwarzenegger

What more can be said about Arnold Schwarzenegger that hasn’t already been said? Plenty, as it turns out. Arnold, the three-part documentary (streaming now on Netflix), includes loads of archival footage, plus interviews with famous collaborators like Jamie Lee Curtis and James Cameron, but the core story comes directly from the world-famous bodybuilder-turned-movie star-turned-California governor. Filming intermittently over two years mainly at Schwarzenegger’s Brentwood home, director Lesley Chilcott and cinematographer Logan Schneider also visited the Austrian village where Schwarzenegger grew up.

By Hugh Hart  |  June 12, 2023
“The Witcher” Season 3 Trailer Finds Geralt at the Center of a Storm

Is Geralt (Henry Cavill) getting soft? Hardly, but the indomitable force at the center of The Witcher is definitely becoming more emotionally attached to Ciri (Freya Allan), the young princess he’s been entrusted to keep safe through the perilous journeys depicted thus far. The official trailer for season 3 finds Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) once again being hunted by all manner of beasts, both supernatural and of the human variety, as they travel to the fortress of Aretuza where,

By The Credits  |  June 9, 2023

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Actor

“Never Have I Ever” Star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on the Final Season & Devi’s Send Off

“I’m dealing with cramps.” 

That’s the first thing 21-year-old Maitreyi Ramakrishnan tells me when she hops on our Zoom. It’s wholly indicative of her character — an actress plucked out of obscurity at 17, grounded, down-to-earth, unapologetically herself no matter the circumstance. 

It’s something she says she’s never had to think about — being herself in the public eye.

“When I first got the role and then, like, the Deadline article came out,

By Andria Moore  |  June 8, 2023
New “Secret Invasion” Teaser Finds Nick Fury in a World of Trouble

“An invasion is here, Rhodey,” says Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to James Rhodes (Don Cheadle), at the top of this new Secret Invasion teaser. “Except we can’t even tell who the invaders are.”

Marvel Studios’ upcoming series is now just two weeks away, and Nick Fury is going to be short on allies and long on enemies. The problem is those enemies will be wearing the faces of allies,

By The Credits  |  June 7, 2023

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Editor

“Poker Face” Editor Shaheed Qaasim on Cutting Rian Johnson’s Ambitiously Clever Crime Drama

In the Peacock murder mystery series Poker Face, star Natasha Lyonne drifts across the country as Charlie Cale, an itinerant human lie detector who unexpectedly solves a new homicide each week. No single Poker Face story is like any other. And provoked by malice, rage, or envy, neither are the murders. “We really treated each episode as its own independent movie,” explained editor Shaheed Qaasim (Modern Family,

By The Credits  |  June 6, 2023

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Cinematographer, Director

“The Other Two” Cinematographer / Director Charlie Gruet on the Show’s Signature Absurdity

Millennials have been the target of some harsh criticism from all sides, but no other generation has become technologically obsolete quite so quickly. Older generations think we’re whizzes on the computer, but there’s a difference between spending your middle school years figuring out how to instant message your crush and being trained to write code. Yet, going viral over a certain (very young) age almost seems more shameful than being irrelevant. This displacement is brilliantly captured in the comedy series The Other Two,

By Kelle Long  |  June 5, 2023
Kim Cattrall Returning as Samantha Jones in “And Just Like That” Season 2 Finale

She’s baaaaaaack.

The world of Sex and the City has been made whole again, at least for a single scene. Variety has learned that Kim Cattrall will return as Samantha Jones in the season 2 finale of And Just Like That, the Sex and the City revival that airs on Max.

Yet don’t expect Cattrall’s Samantha to become a major part of the crew again,

By The Credits  |  June 1, 2023

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“American Born Chinese” Production Design Team Cindy Chao & Michele Yu’s Dazzling Details

It’s rare enough to see a production design team and rarer still to see a team of two female Asian American designers, but Cindy Chao and Michele Yu have been collaborating together successfully on both the large and small screens for over a decade. Recently they got a Primetime Emmy nomination for their work on A Black Lady Sketch Show, and now their new project, American Born Chinese, has arrived on Disney+ boasting rave reviews. 

By Leslie Combemale  |  May 31, 2023
“Mrs. Davis” Director Owen Harris on Pitting a Nun vs. Artificial Intelligence in Peacock’s Potent New Series

A marauding nun married to Jesus takes on an omniscient artificial intelligence in Mrs. Davis, Peacock’s irreverent new thriller set across the globe. Simone (Betty Gilpin) makes a deal with Mrs. Davis, the ubiquitous AI, wherein should she succeed in a quest to find and destroy the Holy Grail, Mrs. Davis, whom Simone believes killed her father, will self-destruct. After linking back up with her wealthy failed rodeo rider ex-boyfriend Wiley (Jake McDorman),

By The Credits  |  May 30, 2023
King for a Day: Inside the Brilliant, Brutal “Succession” Series Finale

“I love you, and I can’t f**king stomach you.” This sentiment, expressed by Shivon Roy (Sarah Snook) to her older brother Kendall (Jeremy Strong), captures the essence of the Roy children’s pain and confusion and the seed of the self-destruction that they’ve tended, with varying degrees of attention, ever since they were old enough to understand just how messed up their family was. Shiv delivered these lines in the climactic final moments of Jesse Armstrong’s pitch-perfect series,

By The Credits  |  May 30, 2023
Watch Dinosaurs Protect Their Eggs in “Prehistoric Planet 2” Clip With Sir David Attenborough

If there’s anyone on planet Earth you want to explain how dinosaurs protected their eggs, it’s Sir David Attenborough. In a new clip from Apple TV’s docu-series Prehistoric Planet 2, the legendary broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and author describes the lengths the titanosaur went to protect her egg. A freshly laid titanosaur egg weighed a kilo and a half (3.3 lbs) and was two millimeters thick. The eggs were pretty tough, Attenborough explains,

By The Credits  |  May 24, 2023

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Music Supervisor Alex Patsavas Gives “Queen Charlotte” a Majestic Soundscape

While gossip is the prevailing currency on Bridgerton, the emotional depth of Queen Charlotte is Her Majesty’s greatest asset. For a woman who can seem quite cold in the original series, a peek into her own lonely bedchamber is, at times, searing.

The intertwining pasts of the Queen (Golda Rosheuvel), Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh), and Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell) reveal the women as tender,

By Kelle Long  |  May 23, 2023
A New “Secret Invasion” Teaser Reveals Nick Fury’s Fight to Ferret Out Infiltrating Aliens

“An invasion is here, Rhodey.”

So says Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to James Rhodes (Don Cheadle), a.k.a War Machine (although he doesn’t become him until further along the Marvel timeline), explaining to his comrade that an invasion of Earth by shape-shifting Skrulls has officially begun. This is the premise for Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion, with Jackson leading a starry cast that includes his Captain Marvel comrade Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos,

By The Credits  |  May 22, 2023
Inside “Succession” Episode 9: Looking for the New Lion at Logan’s Funeral

Even in death, Logan’s arrival on the scene sends the would-be kings, wannabe power players, and his own children (who fall into both camps, frankly) scrabbling to make their move. As Logan’s casket arrived at the funeral and the ritual of mourning and prayers was about to begin in earnest, it was officially Go Time for one of Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin), set to deliver the main eulogy and viewing the moment as his chance to stake his claim as his father’s rightful successor.

By The Credits  |  May 22, 2023
Marvel Reveals Release Dates For “Loki” Season 2 and “Echo”

The God of Mischief and the Native American assassin will be seeing you this fall on Disney+.

Marvel has revealed that the second season of Loki will premiere on October 6, and then a month and change later, the Hawkeye spinoff Echo will premiere on November 29. What’s more, Echo will be the first Marvel Studios show to release all its episodes at once.

Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige made the announcements during the Disney Upfront on Tuesday.

By The Credits  |  May 17, 2023

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Editor

“Barry” Editor Ali Greer on Cutting Her Way Through a Brilliant Final Season

Ali Greer has been so focused on editing the fourth season of Barry that it didn’t truly dawn on her that the hit HBO comedy about the master assassin/would-be actor was coming to a close.

“Tomorrow will be my last day. We have our final sound mix on the series finale… tomorrow… yes,” Greer says during a recent Zoom call. “This is the first time I’ve thought about it. You’re always putting your head down and working.”

Greer,

By Chris Koseluk  |  May 16, 2023

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Production Designer

How “Poker Face” Production Designer Judy Rhee Built a Winning Hand

Already renewed for a second season, the Rian Johnson-created series Poker Face garnered universally enthusiastic reviews and built a passionate following ever since its first episode dropped in late January. Johnson has said Poker Face was built in the tradition of the great crime series of the 70s and 80s, including Columbo and Quantum Leap. As such, each episode is constructed to stand as its own “How Dunnit” (a twist on the “Whodunnit”),

By Leslie Combemale  |  May 15, 2023
Inside “Succession” Episode 8: A Grim Election Night for America Goes From Thriller to Horror

For a healthy portion of Succession’s viewing audience last night, the antepenultimate episode, “America Decides,” was not an easy watch. The episode shone a bright, pitiless light on old wounds and deep scars from the 2016 American presidential election when a seemingly improbable, far-right fantasy became an inescapable and very real living nightmare.

The episode centered on Election Night in the United States, playing out across voting districts from Milwaukee to Maricopa County in Arizona,

By The Credits  |  May 15, 2023

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Composer

“Awkwafina is Nora From Queens” Composer Tangelene Bolton Drops the Needle

“I’ve been playing music since I was two or three, piano specifically, and then I was really into film starting in middle school, and I thought, ooh, maybe I’ll be a director one day,” says composer Tangelene Bolton, whose work can currently be heard on season three of Awkwafina is Nora From Queens. “I started experimenting with making a bunch of short films, and I realized the music heavily influenced how I approached cutting the footage and telling the story.

By Bryan Abrams  |  May 10, 2023