Andy Lau and Ning Hao Talk Satirizing Stardom and the Film Industry with The Movie Emperor
Andy Lau is a certified star, especially to Asian audiences. A legend in Hong Kong cinema, he has a career that spans over four decades, beginning with early hits in the 80s like Boat People and As Tears Go By…
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‘Sing Sing’s Colman Domingo Talks Working With Former Inmates in a Prison
The Big Picture Sing Sing is a film based on the true story of a theater program inside a maximum security prison, highlighting the friendship between two very different inmates and their journey through the program. The film utilized a…
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A Haunting in Venice Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos on Digital vs. Film
The Big Picture A Haunting in Venice takes audiences to a post-World War II setting and focuses on an intimate Poirot mystery with haunting themes. Director Kenneth Branagh and cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos chose to shoot the film digitally for its…
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Sung Kang on Finding His Calling with Directorial Debut Shaky Shivers
Directing has long been Sung Kang's goal, and after many false starts, it has finally happened with Shaky Shivers. The film is billed as a horror-comedy — though, in our interview, Kang said he saw it more as "a comedy…
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Haley Bennett on Playing Grande Dame of Champagne in Widow Clicquot
The Big Picture "Widow Clicquot" is a female-driven film set during the Napoleonic Wars, telling the story of the "Grande Dame of Champagne" and her journey to become a successful entrepreneur in winemaking. The film explores the themes of love,…
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Big Easy Queens Filmmaker Erynn Dalton and Star Eric Swanson Take Queer Horror to New Heights
You don't often find a ballsy New Orleans mob queen battling it out with an arch-nemesis named Poodles in queer cinema. Add some drag queen eyelashes, plenty of gore, and big splashes of noir, and Big Easy Queens has the…
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Armageddon & How It’s Different From Original
The Big Picture Spy Kids: Armageddon reunites filmmaker Robert Rodriguez with Netflix for an exciting adventure family film that is sure to captivate the streamer's youngest viewers. Rodriguez and his own family were heavily involved in the making of the…
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It Lives Inside Director Teams with the Producers of Get Out to Scare the Hell Out of You
A tripped out girl walks around school carrying an ominous jar. What’s inside of it is anybody’s guess, but inevitably we find out. And so begins the twisted fun in writer/director Bishal Dutta’s (Triads) dynamic new horror film, It Lives…
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Agatha Christie’s Great-Grandson and Executive Producer of A Haunting in Venice
Kenneth Branagh returns as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in the terrifying murder mystery, A Haunting in Venice. The famed Belgian sleuth is lured out of retirement by crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey). Bereaved opera star Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly),…
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‘Fingernails’ Director Reveals the Body Part He Almost Used for His Love Test
The Big Picture Apples director Christos Nikou brought his second feature film, Fingernails, to the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The movie focuses on a love test. Sacrifice a fingernail to the device and it will tell you if you…
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Finn Wolfhard Talks ‘Hell of a Summer’s Gore & His Directorial Debut at TIFF
The Big Picture "Hell of a Summer" is a genre mash-up that pays homage to '80s sleepaway camp horror films, featuring all the nostalgic trappings of the era. The directors, Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, focused on finding the right…
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Still Up’s Creative Team Unpack the Hilarious New Insomniac Comedy
Can’t sleep? You’ll love Apple TV+’s hilarious new comedy, Still Up, a tale of two friends bonded by insomnia. Regardless of your sleep habits, Still Up is something to marvel — a rare kind of comedy that speaks to that…
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