‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Director on Getting the Love Story Right
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Red, White & Royal Blue.]From director/co-writer Matthew López and based on the best-selling book by Casey McQuiston, the romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue follows Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son…
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Miguel Wants to Fight Director Oz Rodriguez Discusses His Hulu Action Comedy
Looking to put a pacifistic spin on the otherwise hectic and chaotic action genre, an upcoming movie that is going to be exclusively released on Hulu looks to spotlight a young main character who, ironically enough, has no desire to…
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“We Didn’t Want an Audience Member To Be Able To Say, ‘Oh, That Was Just One Bad Cop’”: Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon on Sound of the Police
Sound of the Police Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon’s Sound of the Police is an exhaustive exploration of the oppositional dynamics between African Americans and law enforcement, from slavery right up to today. Through a wealth of archival imagery, interviews…
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“Rules Stop Me from Daring”: Radu Jude on Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Ilinca Manolache in Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World “Have you ever seen Romanian TikToks?” It’s a torrid afternoon in Locarno and Radu Jude and I are sitting in a container repurposed as an interview…
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Painkiller Editor Geofrey Hildrew Was Told to Be Fearless in the Editing Room
If the facts don’t rattle you, then surely Painkiller, the new Netflix miniseries about the sketchy rise of OxyContin and the alarming opioid crisis it spawned will. Let’s start with the facts: According to the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Elsie Fisher, Rain Spencer Interview
The Big Picture Returning to Cousins Beach is bittersweet after the loss of Susannah, but the new season offers a whole new summer and love triangle. The characters face the conflict of potentially losing the Fisher beach house, navigating complicated…
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Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Her Career and New Book
A sketch by Ruth E. Carter for the costumes of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Ruth E. Carter is one of the best-known and most highly acclaimed costume designers working today. Since the very beginning of her 30-plus-year career, she’s had…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Producers Discuss the 23-Year Journey to Make the Vampire FIlm
Dracula's hot. The bloodsucker always has been, it seems, dating back cinematically for more than a century. But with this year's Empire V and Renfield, along with upcoming films like Robert Eggers' Nosferatu and a possible Dracula remake from Chloé…
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Why Dracula Looks So Good in the Movie
The Big Picture Director André Øvredal discusses making The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a film inspired by one chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Øvredal emphasizes the importance of capturing as much as possible in camera, including building a full…
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‘Aporia’ Director on Casting Judy Greer & Crafting a Time Machine
The Big Picture Aporia is a sci-fi thriller that feels grounded in reality, exploring grief and the moral and ethical lines one will cross to protect loved ones. The film follows Sophie, whose husband was killed by a drunk driver,…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Crew Built a Functioning 100-Ton 19th Century Ship
Summary Universal Pictures went all out in bringing The Last Voyage of the Demeter to life, with meticulous attention to detail in both the makeup and the production design. The production designer, Edward Thomas, decided to build the exterior ship…
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“I Spent Nearly 14 hours Staring At That Lamp”: DP Paul Yee on Joy Ride
Sabrina Wu, Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu and Sherry Cola in Joy Ride When you make your living in production, the relationship between work and time off can be a complicated one. After months of Fraturdays and Second Meal pizza at…
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