Knight of Cups Composer Hanan Townshend on Scoring for Terrence Malick
Composer Hanan Townshend reunited with director Terrence Malick on his latest enigmatic offering Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale. We talk to the US-based New Zealander about collaborating with Malick, his experimental process and creating an adaptable score.
How do you approach your composing work? What would be a starting point for you with something like Knight of Cups?
Knight of Cups is a little bit more specific to more of a collaboration that I've had with Terrence Malick over the years.
Go Deep With New Finding Dory Trailer
Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks return for the long-awaited sequel to Finding Nemo, which picks up six months after the first film. In Finding Dory, the titular clown fish (DeGeneres) is enjoying a quiet life, that is, until she joins Nemo on a class trip to see manta rays migrate back home, compelling the practically amnesiac Dory to find out where her original home was.
Dory's home turns out to be the California Marine Biology Institute,
Showrunner Kahane Cooperman on Amazon’s The New Yorker Presents
The New Yorker Presents, a 10-episode half-hour series that debuted February 16 on Amazon Prime, brings the venerable magazine, The New Yorker, to life through a cinematic smorgasbord of short documentaries, narrative films, poetry readings, animated spots and more based on the publication’s content. Produced by award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and Condé Nast Entertainment, The New Yorker Presents boasts a distinguished crew and cast,
Andy Samberg Unveils Secret Lonely Island Movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Andy Samberg brought some big news to Jimmy Kimmel Live last night; his Lonely Island Crew (Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) will be releasing their first feature length film on June 3. Produced by the omnipresent Judd Apatow, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping features Samberg as singer/rapper Conner4Real, facing a potential career catastrophe after his sophmore album tanks. This being an Apatow production, you know a who's who of comedy stars will be involved in roles big and small.
Animation Supervisors Are the Zookeepers On Disney’s Zootopia
Kira Lehtomaki likes the idea of her role as the protector of “Judy Hopps.” Lehtomaki, an animation supervisor on Disney’s upcoming Zootopia, animated and supervised multiple segments of the feature film but was mainly responsible to oversee the female bunny police officer voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin.
Zootopia is Lehtomaki’s first credit as an animation supervisor (one of five credited on the film), but she’s been working as an animator for Disney for nine years and trained through Disney’s talent development program.
All Hail the Camera Operator in new Game of Thrones Season 6 Featurette
Game of Thrones stars Sean Savage, Ben Wilson, David Morgan, and David Worley are prominent figures in this new featurette HBO has just released. No, you've never heard of them, but these camera operators are crucial members of the GOT production team. You can think of the camera operator as a translator between what the director sees in his head and what you and I see on our screens.
Dwayne Johnson is NOT Vin Diesel in This new Ballers Trailer
While a lot of the buzz coming from HBO lately has gone to the great Vinyl, and Girls is enjoying another good season, Ballers has a lot going for it as it heads into its' second season. First, it's a got a great premise; retired NLF defensive end Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) is now a financial manager for current players, dealing with a client roster of highly competitive,
Filmmaker Antonio Oreña-Barlin on Why Short Films Are Crucial
This article originally appeared on MPA-i.org. It was written by filmmaker Antonio Oreña-Barlin, about his film Drawcard and the experience of showing it at Tropfest, in Australia. You can check out the film here.
"My day at Tropfest Australia and why making short films doesn't mean getting short changed."
By Antonio Oreña-Barlin.
Late last year, the Drawcard team found out we were one of only 16 finalists from over 600 entries selected to screen at the 24th annual Tropfest.
Mad Max: Fury Road Earns 6 Oscars, Crushing Technical Categories
It's not all that surprising that Mad Max: Fury Road did so well at the Oscars last night, winning six Oscars, the most for any film. George Miller's sand blasted chase epic was a technical marvel, reminding viewers what a thrill good, old fashioned stunts are. Although it's a mistake to consider the film solely a marvel of practical effects—there was a lot of great special effects required, they were simply more subtle than you typically get in a film of this size.
X-Men: Apocalypse Drops Teaser on Instagram
X-Men: Apocalypse will hit theaters in three months, on Memorial Day, so we've got more teasers, trailers and clips coming our way. This little taste of why the film's got Apocalypse in its' title was dropped on Instagram, highlighting what looks like potentially the darkest X-Men film yet.
Check it out here.
Here's the film's boilerplate, in case you haven't been keeping up with
New Batman v Superman Clip Shows Epic Rooftop Battle
After the Oscars wrapped, Ben Affleck appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and shared this new Dawn of Justice clip, which features the longest uninterrupted fight between the titular superheroes. The question has always been how in the world Batman was going to even stay competitive in a fight with Superman, and the answer was always going to be his gadgets. Without any of Superman's superhuman abilities, Batman relies on his wonderful toys (and an unlimited amount of money to keep making them).
Oscars 2016: Spotlight Surprises With Best Picture Win
A genuinely surprising Oscars wrapped with Tom McCarthy's Spotlight winning Best Picture over equally likely contenders The Revenant and The Big Short. Mad Max: Fury Road cleaned up the technical awards, which wasn't surprising, but Mark Rylance beating out Sylvester Stallone for Best Supporting Actor sure was. Despite five nominations, Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn't pick up a single award (but droids C-3PO,
Beyond Triple 9: The Cinematic Tradition of the Heist
There are few things more cinematic than the film heist. In fact, the notable subgenre of the crime film had its beginnings shortly after the advent of film itself with Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery in 1903. In the ‘40s, as the popularity of the gangster film and the film noir rose, and the traditional format of the heist film surfaced in the form of John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle,
Chatting With Director Asif Kapadia About his Oscar-Nominated Doc Amy
When Asif Kapadia made BAFTA-winning 2011 film Senna about Brazilian race car driver Ayrton Senna, he had a world-class archive of professionally-shot film and video assets to draw from. For his Oscar-nominated Amy, which chronicles the rise and fall of Amy Winehouse from her effervescent teen years to death at age 27 from alcohol poisoning, Kapadia had to start from scratch. He says "Technically the Sienna camera work was incredible —
Know Your Oscar Nominees: Cinematographers
Like the Globes, the Oscars can be overwhelming. And while you may feel comfortable trying your hand at predictions for Best Picture or Best Director, the technical categories (that is, Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects) can prove a little more difficult. So difficult in fact, that for some, the arrival of each February has come to mean a new imposing challenge to your cinematic knowledge. Luckily, The Credits is here to help you fill out your ballots confident and impress your Oscar party guests with the low down on the best,
The Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2016
The highly awaited Sundance hit The Witch finally premiered in theaters last weekend after months of being shrouded in mystery, and with its arrival begins a deluge of high-pedigree horror that will stalk and stumble its way onto screens throughout the rest of 2016. There are some highly awaited sequels (spiritual and otherwise), many offerings from burgeoning auteurs and a few bigger budget productions that could set the genre up for one of its most prestigious years yet.
Know Your Oscar Nominees: Production Design
And we're back (again) for part VI of our "Know Your Oscar Nominees" technical guide. So far we've covered the short film category (that's live action, animation and documentary), visual effects, editing, costume design, and sound mixing and editing. Now it's time to look at production design.
If there’s an overwhelming theme that the films nominated for best achievement in production design share,
The Comic Anarchy of Sacha Baron Cohen and The Brothers Grimsby
A few months ago, Sacha Baron Cohen’s long-retired Borat dropped by at Jimmy Kimmel Live, showing off his famous comic chops and eliciting ecstatic whoops from the studio audience. The occasion for the visit? Baron Cohen’s newest film, an action comedy called The Brothers Grimsby, which promises to introduce a new charming misfit to the unsuspecting public: Nobby. But before we talk about the film (and the lovable Nobby),
Chatting With Day out of Days Writer/Director Zoe Cassavetes
In Day Out Of Days, starring Alexia Landeau and Melanie Griffith, writer/director Zoe Cassavetes follows the struggles of a forty-year-old actress trying to stay relevant in Hollywood. We talk to Cassavetes about making her second feature film, crowd-funding and what she learned from her trailblazer parents, John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.
I was reading that you chose to go down the crowd-funding route to finance the film so you could cast your friend and co-writer,
Know Your Oscar Nominees: Live Action, Animated & Documentary Short Films
We've covered a slew of the either often overlooked or misunderstood nominated categories for this year's Oscars. Earlier today we published our technical guide to visual effects, and in the past week or so we've looked at editing, costume design, and sound mixing and editing. Now we're going to shift our focus a bit and look at the short film category; live action, animated and documentary.
