How DP Tari Segal Found Joy, Whimsy, and Intimacy in “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
Cinematographer Tari Segal breaks down how intimacy, color, and intention shaped the buoyant visual language of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”
Fashion, Power, and Print Under Pressure: How Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna Cracked “The Devil Wears Prada 2”
The Devil Wears Prada 2 begins with Anne Hathaway’s reporter character, Andy Sachs, getting fired by text just before taking the stage to accept a prestigious journalism award. A few days after the movie opened, a Washington Post editor watched her colleagues win a Pulitzer Prize for a story she’d worked on before being laid off via email. In this David Frankel-directed sequel, which opened to a whopping $77 million, the realities of a shrinking print media industry co-exist vividly alongside the still-glamorous New York City fashion world.
“Paradise” Season 2 Cinematographer Yasu Tanida on Reunions, Ruin, and Radiant California Light
For “‘Paradise’ Season 2,” cinematographer Yasu Tanida evolves the show’s visual language—moving from the controlled cold light of an underground bunker to the unruly beauty of the real world. Drawing on California’s unmatched sunlight and classic Hollywood technique, Tanida crafts moments of chaos, intimacy, and long-awaited reunion with striking emotional power.
How “Sunday Night Football” Is Made: Fred Gaudelli on America’s Most-Watched Show and a Catch for the Ages
Every Sunday night, an army of nearly 200 professionals descends on a stadium with seven mobile production trucks, dozens of cameras, and a single goal: making “Sunday Night Football” feel effortless. Emmy-winning producer Fred Gaudelli explains why preparation—and the people behind the scenes—are the real stars of America’s most-watched show.
“The Thing Under Threat Was a Friendship”: Creator Annie Weisman on Reframing the Thriller in “Imperfect Women”
In “Imperfect Women,” Annie Weisman transforms a literary thriller into an emotionally grounded series where friendship—not power—is the mystery at the core.
Inside RSH Studios: The Historic Hollywood Lot Behind “Moneyball,” Brad Pitt’s Upcoming “Cliff Booth” Movie & More
For more than a century, the studio lot along Cahuenga Boulevard has been a quiet workhorse of Hollywood history. Now known as RSH Studios, the boutique lot has hosted everything from "I Love Lucy" to "Moneyball," adapting through ownership changes, shifting production models, and a post-pandemic industry reset — all while keeping filmmakers at the center of its mission.
“Paradise” Supervising Location Manager Duffy Taylor on Building a Post‑Apocalyptic World—Without Leaving California
“Los Angeles is an incredibly diverse place where we can duplicate all different types of geography," says "Paradise" supervising location manager Duffy Taylor. "When we pull that off—and someone who’s been filming here forever says, ‘Oh my God, I never knew this was here!’—that’s a gold medal moment for me.”
A Historic Vision: Oscar Winner Autumn Durald Arkapaw on Capturing the Soul of “Sinners”
History, captured in images. After becoming the first woman to win Best Cinematography, watch Autumn Durald Arkapaw talk about bringing "Sinners" to life—where epic scale meets intimate emotion.
“Zootopia 2” Writer/Director Duo Jared Bush & Byron Howard on Assembling 697 Artisans for Their Historic Hit
"Animation really is a team sport, it's a community," says "Zootopia 2" co-writer and director Byron Howard. Howard and his partner on assembling 697 artisans across Los Angeles and Vancouver to create the top-grossing animated film in history
“Shrinking” Star & Producer Jason Segel on Season 3’s Love Letter to Los Angeles
When wildfires swept through Pasadena and Altadena in January 2025, "Shrinking" lost sets, and cast and crew lost homes. But Jason Segel, the show's executive producer, co-creator, and star, was determined to keep production in the community that had welcomed the show for years.
From “Dune” to “The Last of Us”: How Formosa Group Elevates Storytelling through Sound
How does Formosa Group power the sound behind "Anora," "Dune," "John Wick," and "The Last of Us"? COO Matt Dubin on nurturing talent, adapting post-COVID, and why California's film tax incentive matters. "Sound is a storytelling tool, not a final step."
Producer Vanridee Pongsittisak on Driving Thai Film & TV’s Global Breakthrough
The past few years have marked a period of remarkable momentum for Thai producer Vanridee Pongsittisak.
While the foundations of her career were built over more than a decade, supported by the Bangkok-based GTH and GDH 559 studios, Vanridee has recently led the charge as Thai filmmakers expand their international horizons.
Most visibly, this mission has played out in real time through the runaway success of the Pat Boonnitipat-directed comedy-drama How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.
Best of 2025: “Part Debate Club and Part Therapy”: Inside “The Pitt” Writers’ Room With Cynthia Adarkwa & Valerie Chu
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
HBO’s The Pitt emerged as one of television’s most gripping medical dramas in years by doing something deceptively simple yet extraordinarily difficult: following a single, brutal 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room in real time. What made the series so compelling wasn’t just its relentless intensity or unflinching medical realism (the “floating face”
Best of 2025: How “Superman” Production Designer Beth Mickle Built the Fortress of Solitude
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
Director James Gunn started small with his 2010 micro-budgeted indie film Super, followed by his acclaimed Guardians of the Galaxy films for Marvel. Now, he’s made a crowd-pleasing new version of Superman that’s raked in more than half a billion in global box office since its release earlier this summer.
Best of 2025: MPA Creator Award Recipient Jon M. Chu on Authentic Storytelling and the Power of Cultural Specificity
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
With Wicked: For Good set to complete the story that began with 2024’s blockbuster, director Jon M. Chu, the Motion Picture Association’s Creator Award recipient for 2025, continues our conversation about his evolution as a filmmaker and the power of culturally specific storytelling to reach universal audiences.
Best of 2025: How DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw Captured Black Music’s Timeless Continuum in “Sinners”
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
In part one of our interview with Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the groundbreaking DP discussed how she leveled up to frame Coogler’s soulful supernatural epic by learning to use the largest film format available. Coogler’s ambitions for his vampire thriller,
Inside Camtec: The Boutique Camera House Behind Films From Damien Chazelle, Denis Villeneuve, Bradley Cooper & More
“We support everything from large-scale blockbusters to high-end commercials to intimate indie films. The scale may change, but our approach doesn’t: we give each production the same level of care, attention, and collaboration,” says Kavon Elhami, the CEO of Camtec, an equipment rental company located in Burbank, California.
For nearly four decades, the boutique shop has been servicing (and collaborating) on countless projects, including Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival,
“Roofman” DP Andrij Parekh on Shooting Super 35, Filming in North Carolina, and Channing Tatum’s Surprising Vulnerability
Director Derek Cianfrance and cinematographer Andrij Parekh forged a tight bond in 2009 while making Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams’ acclaimed indie drama Blue Valentine. In the intervening years, Parekh, armed with an MFA in cinematography from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, won an Emmy for directing Succession and helmed another HBO hit, their Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon, while Cianfrance helmed dark fare including The Place Beyond the Pines,
From “Ice Age” to AI: Filmmakers at Busan Weigh Opportunities and Concerns for Creative Industries
Carlos Saldanha could well have been speaking for many of those gathered on the sidelines of this year’s 30th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) when the filmmaker behind such cutting-edge animated hits as Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Rio (2011), and the Oscar-nominated Ferdinand (2017) turned his attention to the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence across the creative industries.
The Brazilian, among the generation of animators who were among the first to adapt CGI techniques to their creations,
Inside “Weapons”: Zach Cregger on Atlanta Crews, Practical Effects, and That Haunting Opening
Weapons became one of the year’s most acclaimed box office hits, and while the film’s success was certainly by design, it still surprised writer/director Zach Cregger. Cregger knows how to craft a movie that gets under your skin—his last film, Barbarian, was one of 2022’s most unsettling and surprising films, not even he could have predicted that Weapons would become a pop culture phenomenon.
The story Cregger presents in his new film is deceptively simple;
