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‘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,…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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‘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…

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“Diving Into the Mess and Chaos of Cinema Doesn’t Have to Exist Apart from Care and Ethics”: 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…

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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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From Mail-Order to Online: Tom Davenport on Founding Folkstreams, the Pioneering Online Streaming Site

Tom Davenport filming Born for Hard Luck When I first discovered the works of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch—academic anthropologists who opted to make films rather than books about their research subjects—my appreciation of their work was hampered…

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I Gave Up a Lot of Stuff

[Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Train Dreams] Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with William H. Macy and Kerry Condon for Netflix's Train Dreams. Macy and Condon share when they first knew this movie would be special and Macy…

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Inner Landscapes: Tenzin Phuntsog on “Next Life”

An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues. A Tibetan doctor arrives, and father Pala (Tsewang…

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The Star of Exciting New Drama ‘Manas’ Didn’t Know She Was the Lead Character Until Seeing the Movie

Summary Perri Nemiroff chats with Manas director Marianna Brennand after a Collider screening of the movie. During their Q&A, Brennand looks back on the ten years of research she did for the film, and also explains why she opted to…

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“It was Extremely Brutal”: Max Keegan on “The Shepherd and the Bear”

Yves Raspaud in The Shepherd and the Bear High in the Pyrenees, a centuries-old way of life approaches its twilight amid a controversial rewilding scheme. France’s government has for decades airlifted brown bears from Slovenia to repopulate those hunted out…

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