John Krasinski Finally Landed a Role With His Dream Filmmaker
The Big Picture John Krasinski juggles multiple projects, including Oppenheimer and A Quiet Place: Day One, but his passion project IF takes center stage. IF: Imaginary Friends features an all-star cast of voices and a heartfelt storyline for both kids…
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“It’s Very Important, When You’re Choosing Actors, To Make Sure They Possess Something That Remains Almost Unknown”: Director Constance Tsang on Her Cannes-Premiering Blue Sun Palace
Blue Sun Palace Blue Sun Palace, Constance Tsang’s first feature, is a migrant story that’s vividly attuned to the temporal and emotional dislocation of those stranded far away from home. Set in Flushing, Queens—where the director grew up—the film follows…
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The Circle Season 6 Runner-Up Kyle Fuller Dishes on the Winner and Secret Details
Described as a mixture between the voyeur-based competition aspect found in CBS’s Big Brother and all the online identity mysteries that are brought up in MTV’s Catfish, Netflix’s The Circle is certainly a reality show for the modern audience. Beginning…
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‘IF’s John Krasinski Turned a Heartbreaking Scene Into a Special Moment
The Big Picture Fleming's experience from The Walking Dead prepared her for her first lead role in IF, earning praise from co-stars Reynolds and Krasinski. In IF, she plays Bea, teaming up with Reynolds to match forgotten imaginary friends with…
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‘Back to Black’s Marisa Abela on the Challenge of Portraying Amy Winehouse
The Big Picture 'Back to Black' is a biopic that explores Amy Winehouse's life, music, and struggle with fame and addiction. Marisa Abela sings all the songs in the film, bringing emotional depth to Amy Winehouse's performances. Director Sam Taylor-Johnson…
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“We Wanted to Film These Beige Structures the Way Terrence Malick Films a Sunset”: Director Matthew Rankin on the Canadian/Iranian Interzone of his Cannes-Premiering Universal Language
#image_title There are plenty of North American filmmakers influenced by the giants of international cinema. These filmmakers import stylistic references, different tones and rhythms, perhaps key collaborators, such as a cinematographer, to films that nonetheless are born of their own…
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Josh Brolin Explains the ‘Outer Range’ Season 2 Finale and What It All Means
The Big Picture Collider's Steve Weintraub speaks with Outer Range star Josh Brolin for Season 2 of the Prime Video series and the way the season ends. Brolin discusses working with the new showrunner, Charles Murray, embracing more of the…
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“Everything About Women Interests Me”: Lizzie Borden on the New York Feminisms Trilogy
Regrouping In 2022, Lizzie Borden’s virtually unseen first feature Regrouping was restored and given its first-ever theatrical run. That film joins the now-canonical Born in Flames (1983) and Working Girls (1986) in what some have termed her “New York Feminisms”…
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead on Seducing Ewan McGregor in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’
The Big Picture The Showtime series 'A Gentleman in Moscow' is a historical drama that follows Count Rostov's house arrest during the Russian Revolution. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays Anna Urbanova, an actress whose love affair with Rostov deepens over time,…
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“You Can’t Go Into Your Hometown and Not Shoot Cinemascope”: Writer/Director Adam Rehmeier on His Early ’90s Nebraska-Set Comedy, Snack Shack
Snack Shack The logline for Snack Shack—two teenaged best friends spend the summer of 1991 working at a community pool food stand and get up to shenanigans—suggests a hyper-generic “one crazy summer”-type coming-of-age flick, but the film distinguishes itself with…
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You Can’t Run Forever Filmmaker on Directing Husband J.K. Simmons as a Psycho
With Oscar winner J.K. Simmons leading your movie, you're already off to a solid start. Filmmaker Michelle Schumacher — who also happens to be married to Simmons — has a new film out this week that features the talented actor…
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Everything You Want to Know About ‘Fallout’ Star Xelia Mendes-Jones
The Big Picture Welcome to a new episode of Collider Forces with Fallout and The Wheel of Time star Xelia Mendes-Jones. During his conversation with Collider's Perri Nemiroff, he revisits leaving football behind for acting, and scoring his first big…
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