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“I Wanted to Understand the Brainwash”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With ‘Rojek’ Director Zaynê Akyol
Zaynê Akyol’s latest documentary feature, Rojek, was born out of her time working on the 2016 documentary Gulîstan, Land of Roses. In that film, the director followed a group of female soldiers in Iraqi Kurdistan as she searched for her old babysitter (the titular Gulîstan), who had mysteriously vanished one day in Akyol’s childhood to […]
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Hollywood Flashback: When ‘Sideways’ Was the Toast of Awards Season
Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti’s latest film, The Holdovers, is in the awards conversation for its tale of holiday mischief and misfits at a remote New England boarding school. In it, Giamatti plays a cranky history teacher tasked with looking after students who aren’t going home for winter break. Almost 20 years ago, Payne and […]
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Charles Melton Contemplates If ‘May December’ Is A Comedy
Entering May December, Charles Melton was best known as a TV star on the soapy teen drama Riverdale as former football player Reggie Mantle. Next to his castmates Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, he was virtually an unknown talent in the film world. But with Todd Haynes’ latest melodrama, Melton has broken out as an […]
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph Celebrates First Golden Globe Nom for ‘The Holdovers’
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is the beating heart at the center of Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, about a group of students and staff stuck on campus at a remote New England boarding school over the holidays. Randolph plays Mary, the school chef, who is grieving the death of someone very close to her, opposite Paul Giamatti’s […]
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Producers of ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Origin’ and More Oscar Contenders Talk the Toughest Tasks Behind the Scenes of Their Films
Jermaine Johnson, American Fiction Producer Jermaine Johnson worked primarily as a literary manager for clients like first-time movie writer-director Cord Jefferson (whom he’s represented for close to a decade) before the pair collaborated on Jefferson’s darkly comic adaptation of the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, which Jefferson wrote on spec with Johnson’s encouragement. Naturally, first-time […]
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Hollywood Flashback: When Whoopi Struck Gold With ‘The Color Purple’
The Color Purple returns to theaters as a musical Dec. 25, starring Fantasia Barrino in the lead role of Celie and produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, both of whom were part of the 1985 film that marked the feature debut of Whoopi Goldberg. Goldberg had mostly been doing theater in New York and […]
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‘Winning Time’ Director Salli Richardson-Whitfield on Recreating Showdowns Between Two Basketball Rivals
Episode six of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’s second season sees the Los Angeles team and its bitter rival, the Boston Celtics, on a course to meet in the 1984 NBA Finals. In the script, this translated to a mere sentence: “It said something like, ‘The two teams colliding on each other […]
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Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen Dominate Billboard Music Awards: Full List of Winners
Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen were among the top winners at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night. Swift entered the evening as the finalist (as the BMAs call their nominees) in the most categories — a staggering 20 nods. She took home a total of 10 awards, including the coveted trophy for top […]
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Elizabeth Debicki Earned an Emmy Nom for Playing Princess Diana, the Second Role on ‘The Crown’ She Auditioned For
While The Crown is no stranger to the Emmys — it has, to date, 21 wins (including best drama series in 2021) and 69 nominations — it was only recognized in one acting category for its fifth season: supporting actress in a drama, for the indomitable Elizabeth Debicki’s portrayal of Princess Diana. Over the course […]
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‘The White Lotus’ Costume Designer Created One Last Look Before Tanya’s Plunge
Crafting the farewell ensemble for Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) — before she shoots up a yacht of murderous gays and tumbles into the sea to her untimely death in the season two finale of HBO’s The White Lotus — was a labor of love for costume designer Alex Bovaird, who has delighted in conjuring up […]
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Hollywood Flashback: Bob Odenkirk Scored an Emmy With ‘The Ben Stiller Show’
Bob Odenkirk has been nominated for best lead drama actor six times for Better Call Saul, including for this year’s final season of the AMC series. If he were to win an Emmy for Saul Goodman’s swan song, it wouldn’t be his first: Odenkirk, who initially made a name for himself in sketch comedy, has […]
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‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Costume Designer Created the Look for a Comedian’s Swan Song
In the series finale of Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the eponymous Midge Maisel, played with Emmy-winning sparkle by Rachel Brosnahan, lands a big break appearing as a talk show guest on The Gordon Ford Show. For one of her last looks of the entire series, costume designer Donna Zakowska, also an Emmy winner, […]
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