Production Designer Scott Dougan Turns Chris Hemsworth’s “Crime 101” Into a High-Gloss L.A. Fever Dream
Scott Dougan has spent his career absorbing the real texture of Los Angeles — the sun‑faded corners, the hidden views, the neighborhoods that rarely show up on screen. In Crime 101, director Bart Layton’s sleek, high‑stakes heist thriller adapted from Don Winslow’s novella, Dougan finally gets to unleash that knowledge.
Early Reactions: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” Lets Jessie Buckley & Christian Bale Electrify a Ferocious Outlaw Romance
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! has jolted to life online, and the early reactions paint a picture of a bold, ferocious reinvention of Frankenstein mythology — one anchored by Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale at their most charged and fearless.
How “The Night Agent” Keeps It Real: Shawn Ryan on Panama Papers Inspiration and Filming in New York
Shawn Ryan has spent much of his career writing about the cracks in America’s institutions, from corrupt cops on The Shield to rogue commanders on Last Resort. But "The Night Agent," his hit Netflix thriller now entering Season Three, lets him imagine something different: principled people fighting back.
How “Marty Supreme” Put Oscar-Nominated Production Designer Jack Fisk in a New York State of Mind
Jack Fisk didn’t expect his next project after Killers of the Flower Moon to center on a fast‑talking ping pong hustler played by Timothée Chalamet — but then Josh Safdie called. What began as an unexpected conversation became a three‑year collaboration that transformed a stretch of Manhattan’s Lower East Side into a vividly detailed 1952 world built from modular storefronts, aged signage, and layers of texture audiences will never fully see.
Oscar-Nominated Casting Director Nina Gold Knew Jessie Buckley Was the One for “Hamnet”
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet brings Maggie O’Farrell’s award‑winning novel to the screen with a cast assembled through intuition, legwork, and what casting director Nina Gold calls “a little bit of magic.” Gold — now among the Oscars’ first-ever nominees for achievement in casting — opens up about finding Jessie Buckley’s searing Agnes, discovering the young pair who could hold the emotional weight of the film as the twins, and why the Globe Theatre’s background artists needed to feel as emotionally alive as the stars onstage.
