Chernobyl’s Emmy-Nominated Director on Capturing Catastrophe
Within the first few minutes of Chernobyl, director Johan Renck plunges the viewer into a riveting recreation of the infamous nuclear power plant meltdown and its aftermath. Since completing its run this summer, the HBO mini-series has earned 16 Emmy nominations for dramatizing the horrendous impact on victims of the accident while tracking the efforts of scientist Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) as he takes on the Soviet establishment to uncover the truth about why the reactor blew up.
Hailee Steinfeld may Lead Disney+’s Hawkeye Series
You’d be hard-pressed to find a better person to play Hawkeye‘s protege, Kate Bishop, than Oscar-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld. Variety reports the immensely talented Steinfeld is in talks to join Jeremy Renner in Marvel Studios upcoming Disney+ series. Bishop is the young woman who, in the comics, becomes the new Hawkeye after Clint Barton passes on the mantle to her. Bishop’s Hawkeye ultimately becomes part of the Young Avengers,
The Man in the High Castle‘s Emmy-Nominated VFX Supervisor on Taking Down Lady Liberty
The third season finale of The Man in the High Castle sees the show’s alternate fascist reality, based on the eponymous Philip K. Dick novel, take a giant leap forward for Nazism in America — surrounded by cheering crowds, the Statue of Liberty is brought down under fireworks, fighter jets, and Himmler’s watch. The episode title, “Jahr Null,” means year zero, the showy start to a new future for America devoid of the country’s history.
How Killing Eve Showrunner Emerald Fennell Delivered 9 Emmy Nominations
“It’s OK if you feel weird. You just killed someone for the first time. With an ax.” That’s one many deadpan Killing Eve lines crafted by actress-turned-showrunner Emerald Fennell and delivered by psychopath Villanelle (Jodie Comer) to fish-out-of-water spy Eve (Sandra Oh). AMC/BBC America’s British thriller earned nine Emmy nominations for its second season including an Outstanding Writing nod for Fennell, who seemingly came out of nowhere to succeed Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the show’s creative boss.
How SEAL Team’s Emmy-Nominated Stunt Coordinators Bring Accuracy to the Action
CBS’s SEAL Team, renewed for a third season, takes an authentic and awe-inspiring look at the lives of Navy S.E.A.L.S., giving you a sense of how “they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions.” Behind the scenes helping to ensure such realism are stunt coordinators Peewee Piemonte and Julie Michaels. The Emmy-nominated husband-and-wife team — Piemonte won two and was nominated for a third for Southland and Michaels was nominated for Shameless — are nominees once again,
Will Poulter Cast in Amazon’s Mysterious Lord of the Rings Series
Will Poulter has a knack for picking interesting projects. He was dynamite as Bridger, the young, in-over-his-head fur trapper in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. In David Slade and Charlie Brooker’s mind-blowing Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Poulter stole every scene he was in as the coding genius Colin Ritman. This summer, he starred in Ari Aster’s gleefully bizarre horror film Midsommar. Now Variety reports that Poulter has nabbed a major role in one of the most mysterious projects in Hollywood—he’ll be in Amazon’s Lord of the Ring series.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s Emmy-Nominated Hair & Makeup Team on Reimagining the 1950s
Amy Sherman-Palladino’s 1950s-era follow-up to Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, has been a hit for Amazon, beloved by viewers and a heavyweight at last year’s Emmys. In its second season, the show further explores Midge’s (Rachel Brosnahan) uptown-downtown life as a budding comedian, moderately dutiful daughter, and young single mother getting back into dating. Set in an era that just preceded Manhattan’s most idolized decades,
The Mandalorian Will Reveal the First Order’s Rise to Power
Now that we’ve gotten a glimpse at The Mandalorian‘s trailer and learned a bit more courtesy Disney’s D23 Expo, a clearer picture of the first-ever live-action Star Wars series is coming into focus. Jon Favreau’s series has been kept under wraps until recently, so it’s nice to see the Sarlacc pit of Secrecy finally start to cough up some juicy tidbits. In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly,
HBO’s Watchmen Premiere Date Announced in Very Watchmen Way
There could be no other way to finally, officially announce the premiere date for HBO’s Watchmen. The adaptation of the iconic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons has taken one of the most memorable motifs in Watchmen’s world—the Doomsday Clock—and used it to reveal when the series would finally appear on HBO:
10/20. Tick Tock. #WatchmenHBO pic.twitter.com/RsEq8Fh3es
— Watchmen (@watchmen) September 3,
Best of Summer 2019: Here’s What Made Dany’s Assault on King’s Landing so Viscerally Terrifying
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
Director Miguel Sapochnik and cinematographer Fabian Wagner have worked together on four of Game of Thrones most ambitious episodes. The two teamed up for season 5’s skirmish with the Night King, “Hardhome,” season 6’s muddy epic “Battle of the Bastards,” this season’s Battle of Winterfell in “The Long Night,”
Best of Summer 2019: Editor Spencer Averick on Cutting When They See Us
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
Netflix rarely releases viewer numbers, but on June 12th, the streaming service tweeted that Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us has been its most-watched content in the US since the show’s premiere on May 31st. In the UK, When They See Us has been running second only to Black Mirror.
Best of Summer 2019: Jared Harris on Creating Valery Legasov, Chernobyl’s Reluctant Hero
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
It’s the lies told throughout Craig Mazin’s five-episode series Chernobyl that get you. After all, most anybody watching the HBO program set in today’s northern Ukraine will already know that the Soviet nuclear plant exploded in 1986, the area was eventually evacuated, and the adjacent newly-built town of Pripyat transformed into a ghost city,
Best of Summer 2019: Fleabag‘s Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Capturing Cutting-Edge Comedy
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
There’s no such thing as flawless art. Flaws are baked right into anything a human being creates, and often they are hard to disassociate from the strengths that make any art worthwhile. Yet I’ve heard several people call Fleabag‘s second season flawless, and I’ve been hard-pressed to argue the point.
See Sacha Baron Cohen as You’ve Never Seen Him Before in The Spy
“If your country needed you to lie to your friends, your family, your wife, would you do it? If your country asked you to risk your life, would you do it?” This is the question posed to Mossad agent Eli Cohen (Sacha Baron Cohen) in Gideon Raff’s new Netflix series The Spy. Netflix has released the first trailer for the drama, which is based on the incredible true story of Cohen going undercover in Syria in the early 1960s to ferret out their secret initiatives aimed at Israel.
The Poster for Marvel’s WandaVision Series is Delightfully Weird
The goodies that Disney’s D23 Expo delivered this past weekend are, in a word, delicious. Let us count the ways—a new teaser for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? Check. A new Rise of Skywalker poster? Check. The first trailer for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian? Check. A fresh batch of photos from The Mandalorian?
New Images From The Mandalorian Tease Galaxy of Outlaws, Outcasts & Misfits
So you’ve watched the first trailer for The Mandalorian several dozen times? Yeah, us too. Now you can feast your eyes on a batch of images from the live-action Star Wars series coming to Disney+, which stars Pedro Pascal as the titular bounty hunter plying his dangerous trade in a galaxy after the events of The Return of the Jedi and the fall of the Empire.
Bounty Hunting is a Complicated Profession in First Trailer for The Mandalorian
Just as Disney promised, the first trailer for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series is here. Disney’s D23 Expo delivered the goods, and now we’ve got a sense of what Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian Disney+ series will be like. The first reaction we had to watching the trailer was yes. There is but a single line of dialogue in the 93-seconds, and it comes courtesy of the great Werner Herzog: “Bounty hunting is a complicated profession,”
Disney Reveals The Mandalorian Poster at D23
Yesterday we wrote about some of the Star Wars reveals we were hoping to see at Disney’s D23 Expo that begins today. Even though the event hasn’t even kicked off yet (it begins in earnest this afternoon), the Mouse House has already given us some of the goods. We’ve now got our first look at the poster for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian.
Now we Know Where Jon Snow Was Going in Final Game of Thrones Shot
The final shot in Game of Thrones took us all the way back to the beginning, only with a decidedly very different tone. Game of Thrones opened north of the wall, where the resurgent White Walkers were leaving gruesome clues (dead bodies and body parts) for the living. The final shot in the series was of Jon Snow (Kit Harington), north of the wall, heading into a future in which the White Walkers and their undead minions were dead.
Watch The Dark Crystal‘s Cast Discuss Netflix’s Epic new Series
The anticipation for Netflix’s new series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is no joke. The combination of voice talent, the blend of practical effects (especially puppetry) and CGI, and the glimpses we’ve seen of the series thus far have created a groundswell of excitement. Now Netflix has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette that reveals stars Simon Pegg, Natalie Dormer, Taron Egerton, Jason Isaacs, and Executive Producer Lisa Henson talking about the ambitious new project.
