John August on “Scriptnotes” (the Book)

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John August on “Scriptnotes” (the Book)

After Syd Field’s Screenplay was published in 1979, an entire cottage industry sprung up in Hollywood. Screenwriting manuals and classes, overnight gurus and other (often predatory) enterprises promised impressionable aspirants a breakthrough if they just practiced a particular architecture of…

Walker Scobell Says Percy Isn’t Your Classic Hero in ‘Percy Jackson’ – And Season 2 Proves It [Exclusive]

Summary Collider's Hannah Hunt talks with Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Daniel Diemer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2. In Season 2 of the Disney+ series, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson forge into an unlikely family built on…

Robinson Devor on Doc âSuburban Furyâ

Suburban Fury Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury, made in collaboration with writer Charles Mudede (who also co-wrote Devor’s 2005 acclaimed narrative feature Police Beat and 2007’s provocatively disturbing Zoo), is as counterintuitively intense as its title might imply. The unconventionally riveting…

You Won’t Believe the Real Reason This ‘Face/Off’ Star Begged to Be Killed Off In The Legendary Action Thriller

Summary Landman Season 2 is streaming on Paramount+ with Andy Garcia and Demi Moore joining the fallout. Rebecca and Nate must rebuild trust, clean up Season 1’s mess, and brace for even crazier stakes. Kayla Wallace preps Sheridan’s giant legal…

Eugene Jarecki on Assange Doc “The Six Billion Dollar Man.”Filmmaker Magazine

Eugene Jarecki’s The Six Billion Dollar Man, much like its main character Julian Assange, is a doc destined to spark controversy. Jam-packed with gripping never before seen footage (much of it captured by Ecuadorian embassy CCTV) and an eclectic roster…

‘Percy Jackson’ Season 2 Isn’t About Monsters — It’s About Choices, Says Rick Riordan [Exclusive]

Summary Collider's Hannah Hunt talks with Percy Jackson author and creator Rick Riordan for Season 2 of the Disney+ series. Season 2 centers on choosing sides, questions of loyalty and heroism, and exploring the moral gray areas. In this interview,…

Director as Dinner Party Host: Dan Trachtenberg on “Predator: Badlands”

Predator: Badlands Architect of the three last films in the Predator franchise (the previous two being the 1719-set Prey and animated anthology film Predator: Killer of Killers), Dan Trachtenberg would be the first to tell you that many of Predator:…

After ‘The Hunger Games,’ Josh Hutcherson Got the Second Act He Always Wanted With ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s

“It’s kind of a funny thing,” Josh Hutcherson says, after I ask him how his day of press has been going so far. The actor, who is promoting the second installment in the Five Nights at Freddy’s film franchise, has…

Music as Nourishment: Max Richter on Scoring “Hamnet”

Paul Mescal in Hamnet With Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017), Chloé Zhao constructed tender epics out of prolonged time spent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Much like her Oscar-winning Nomadland (2020), these…

‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Stars on Their Scariest On-Set Encounters: “I Crapped My Pants”

[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry.] Summary Co-Stars Blake Cameron James and Arian S. Cartaya were terrified by Bill Skarsgård in character as Pennywise. Will’s relationship with his military father is rocky, with haunting moments…

âDiving Into the Mess and Chaos of Cinema Doesnât Have to Exist Apart from Care and Ethicsâ: Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night

The Wolves Always Come Out at Night Gabrielle Brady’s The Wolves Always Come at Night follows Davaa and Zaya, a rural Mongolian couple with four young daughters whose dream to continue the traditional herding way of life they’d always known…

Intercepted’s Noah Beck Dishes on Drayton and Dallas’ Romance and Why There Should Be a ‘Sidelined 3’

[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for Sidelined 2: Intercepted.] Summary 'Sidelined 2: Intercepted' deepens Drayton and Dallas' romance while injury, self-doubt and distance test whether they can make it last. Noah Beck was happy to get the opportunity…

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