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The Red Sea Film Fest Roundtable: “Stories Are the Way to Hopefully Bring People Together”
The third Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia put a spotlight on movies from the Middle East and North Africa region. It also presented an opportunity to bring together six filmmakers with strong cinematic voices for the first-ever Hollywood Reporter roundtable at the fest, in partnership with Neom. Among those participating in […]
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‘To Kill a Tiger’ Depicts an Indian Father as a Model for Male Allyship
In her documentary To Kill a Tiger, which won the prize for best Canadian film at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, filmmaker Nisha Pahuja tackles the most harrowing subject of her career: the fight of an Indian farmer to demand justice for his 13-year-old daughter, Kiran, after she was gang-raped by three men in […]
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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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Brothel Chic: The Sexualized Costume Design of ‘Poor Things’
Well-versed in the modern period drama with a twist, director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite) had a simple edict for the costume design of Poor Things. As British costume designer Holly Waddington notes, “He didn’t want it to be like a period drama, he didn’t want it to be like a sci-fi film, and he didn’t […]
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20 Godzilla Monsters, Ranked From Best to Worst
When it comes to the question of which character has the best rogue’s gallery, most people immediately go with Batman or Spider-Man. Some of the more initiated might even go with The Flash. But be encouraged to think bigger, much bigger. Over 59 years, and four eras — Showa, Heisei, Millennium, and Reiwa — Godzilla […]
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Jodie Comer Talks ‘The End We Start From,’ ‘Bikeriders’ Delay and Online Casting Rumors
Jodie Comer is no stranger to rave reviews, but The End We Start From is the first time she’s received them for the unfamiliar role of a mother. The Emmy winner has briefly played mothers in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and The Last Duel, but Comer considers Mahalia Belo’s survival drama to be […]
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‘Wonka’ Director Paul King Talks Gene Wilder References and Why It Was Time to Let Go of Paddington
Paul King’s road to Wonka began with a tough choice between marmalade and chocolate. After two beloved films about a marmalade-loving bear named Paddington, King opted to take on a prequel to Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) instead of completing a Paddington trilogy of sorts. With Paddington having such extensive source […]
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Tales of Triumph and Iconic Personas: THR’s Guide to the Oscars’ Top Documentaries
AKA Mr. Chow (HBO Documentary Films) This portrait directed by Nick Hooker follows the life and career of painter turned restaurateur Michael Chow, the owner of the Mr Chow restaurant chain, as he returns to the art world with his first solo show in nearly 60 years. American Symphony (Netflix) Matthew Heineman switches gears from […]
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“I Want to Do More Than Just Drive the Plot Forward”: Chloe Domont, Andrew Haigh, Cord Jefferson, Tony McNamara, Eric Roth and Celine Song on the THR Writer Roundtable
What part of writing do writers actually enjoy? The answers from the six panelists on the 2023 THR Writer Roundtable — Fair Play’s Chloe Domont, All of Us Strangers’ Andrew Haigh, American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson, Poor Things’ Tony McNamara, Killers of the Flower Moon’s Eric Roth and Past Lives’ Celine Song — run the gamut from […]
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‘Somm’ Director on Why His New Wine Doc Is Really a “Geopolitical Thriller”
When Jason Wise set out to make the fourth documentary in his Somm series it was intended to be a history and religion-centric film — “the Planet Earth of wine” — but after meeting a winemaker named Vahe Keushguerian in Armenia those plans changed. Somm: Cup of Salvation centers on Keushguerian and his daughter Aimee, […]
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Making of ‘Past Lives’: How Celine Song’s Unusual Exercises Helped Her Cast and Crew Deliver a Lived-In Drama
To achieve the hyper-naturalistic, lived-in connections among her trio of characters in Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song put both her cast and crew through a number of unusual exercises. For Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, who play childhood soulmates Nora and Hae Sung, that meant not being allowed to physically touch until the very moment […]
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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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‘Past Lives’ Star Teo Yoo on How He Used His Own Experiences of Loneliness to Inform His Character in Celine Song’s Film
A24’s Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song’s feature film debut, is a bittersweet and tender drama incorporating big ideas of cultural identity and fate within an intimate and surprising story of an unexpected love triangle. Centered on Greta Lee’s Nora, the film follows the young woman as she emigrates from South Korea to Canada with her parents […]
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Emerald Fennell on Creating “Just Pure, Visceral Madness” With ‘Saltburn’
In Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver Quick, a middle-class student at Oxford University who becomes infatuated with his handsome and wealthy classmate Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). As the school year ends, Felix invites him to spend the summer with him and his idiosyncratic family at their massive country estate — […]
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Feinberg Forecast: Thanksgiving Revs Up the Oscar Race
Best Picture Barbie Warner Bros.’ summer hit was feted with the Global Icon & Creator Tribute at the Gotham Awards on Nov. 27, and no film seems poised to benefit more from the just-announced return to network TV of the Golden Globes, with its long-standing musical/comedy categories and its new blockbuster category. Maestro Bradley Cooper’s Netflix […]
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‘Take Me Home’ Director Liz Sargent on a New Kind of Disability Storytelling (Guest Column)
When I set out to make my short film Take Me Home, I wanted to raise questions about our responsibilities to family as we grow older. The film captures a feared transitional moment for families that include a loved one who cannot live on their own: What is inherited? How do we navigate the hurdles […]
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