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Exhuming Terror: Writer/Director Lee Cronin Unwraps THE MUMMY

Exhuming Terror: Writer/Director Lee Cronin Unwraps THE MUMMY

This spring, Warner Bros. brings audiences new twists on undead horror icons with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bri…

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Run and Hide: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Unveil READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME

Run and Hide: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Unveil READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME

This weekend another bride enters the box office arena. Released in 2019, the scrappy genre breakout Ready or…

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Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream : 'Hamnet' Photographer Agata Grzybowska - FILM REVIEW

Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream : 'Hamnet' Photographer Agata Grzybowska - FILM REVIEW

The transcendent alchemy of Chloé Zhao's Hamnet now fills the pages of a distinctive new companion volume. Lo…

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Reflections On Cinematography: Sir Roger Deakins and James Deakins - FILM REVIEW

Reflections On Cinematography: Sir Roger Deakins and James Deakins - FILM REVIEW

For nearly fifty years, Academy Award-winning cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins has shaped the emotional lang…

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Silver Screens: Author and Journalist Jane Crowther - FILM REVIEW

Silver Screens: Author and Journalist Jane Crowther - FILM REVIEW

Available now from Pavilion Books, Silver Screens: Spectacular Cinemas from Hollywood to Hong Kong is a celeb…

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The Beauty of Transformation: WICKED: FOR GOOD Hair and Makeup Designer Frances Hannon

The Beauty of Transformation: WICKED: FOR GOOD Hair and Makeup Designer Frances Hannon

In the long lineage of Oz on screen, makeup and hair have carried as much mythology as the characters themsel…

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Weaving Character: WICKED: FOR GOOD Costume Designer Paul Tazewell

Weaving Character: WICKED: FOR GOOD Costume Designer Paul Tazewell

In For Good, the language of costume charts an arc of identity, power, and vulnerability through fabric. Acad…

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Through the Looking Glass: WICKED: FOR GOOD Cinematographer Alice Brooks

Through the Looking Glass: WICKED: FOR GOOD Cinematographer Alice Brooks

In crafting the visual language of Wicked, cinematographer Alice Brooks and director Jon M. Chu began with wo…

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Designing Oz: WICKED: FOR GOOD Production Designer Nathan Crowley

Designing Oz: WICKED: FOR GOOD Production Designer Nathan Crowley

The philosophy of Oscar-winning production designer Nathan Crowley is simple: If something can be built, it s…

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From Stage to Screen: WICKED: FOR GOOD Casting Director Bernie Telsey

From Stage to Screen: WICKED: FOR GOOD Casting Director Bernie Telsey

For virtuoso casting director Bernie Telsey, the long-awaited film adaptation of Wicked offered the chance to…

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Smoke and Mirrors: Director Ruben Fleischer Brings Vision to Illusion in NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU ...

Smoke and Mirrors: Director Ruben Fleischer Brings Vision to Illusion in NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU ...

Now You See Me debuted its first trick in 2013 by conjuring a global box office cache of $351.7 million. Thre…

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Making Monsters: Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius - FILM REVIEW

Making Monsters: Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius - FILM REVIEW

Following their hugely successful Masters of Make-Up Effects, Oscar-winning make-up effects artist Howard Ber…

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Hollywood Forever: Karie Bible - FILM REVIEW

Hollywood Forever: Karie Bible - FILM REVIEW

For more than two decades, Karie Bible has been the guiding voice and storyteller taking visitors from near a…

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Chain Reactions: Writer/Director Alexandre O. Philippe on Tobe Hooper's American Nightmare - FILM...

Chain Reactions: Writer/Director Alexandre O. Philippe on Tobe Hooper's American Nightmare - FILM...

Fifty years after Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre first rattled audiences, filmmaker Alexandre O. …

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Jaws: The Exhibition │ The Academy Museum - FILM REVIEW

Jaws: The Exhibition │ The Academy Museum - FILM REVIEW

Jaws: The Exhibition has surfaced at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Marking the 50th anniversary of S…

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In Harmony: Director Oliver Hermanus on Music and Memory in THE HISTORY OF SOUND

In Harmony: Director Oliver Hermanus on Music and Memory in THE HISTORY OF SOUND

Directed by Oliver Hermanus and adapted from Ben Shattuck's short story, The History of Sound traces the bond…

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On the Ropes: Director Sean Ellis Tackles a Boxer's Internal Battle in THE CUT

On the Ropes: Director Sean Ellis Tackles a Boxer's Internal Battle in THE CUT

Director Sean Ellis delivers a reinvention of the boxing film with The Cut. Rather than centering on the ring…

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Run, River, Run: Director/Producer Ben Masters on the Water and Wildlife of THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

Run, River, Run: Director/Producer Ben Masters on the Water and Wildlife of THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

The American Southwest is a sweeping documentary journey down the Colorado River, narrated by activist and mo…

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Blacklisted: An American Story at The New York Historical - FILM REVIEW

Blacklisted: An American Story at The New York Historical - FILM REVIEW

Blacklisted: An American Story at The New York Historical examines how the Red Scare reshaped Hollywood and t…

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On the Rocks: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Jay Roach, and Tony McNa...

On the Rocks: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Jay Roach, and Tony McNa...

In Searchlight Pictures' The Roses, love is a battlefield marred by passive aggression and verbal artillery. …

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The Costumes of Hollywood: Authors Larry McQueen and Coleen Scott - FILM REVIEW

The Costumes of Hollywood: Authors Larry McQueen and Coleen Scott - FILM REVIEW

In The Costumes of Hollywood - Highlights from The Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design, a new book av…

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Flesh and Blood: Director Nick Rowland and Actor/Producer Taron Egerton Talk 'She Rides Shotgun' ...

Flesh and Blood: Director Nick Rowland and Actor/Producer Taron Egerton Talk 'She Rides Shotgun' ...

Rowland and Egerton-who also served as a producer- illuminate a gentleness and vulnerability among the narrat…

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Packing Heat: Director Akiva Schaffer and Producer Erica Huggins Reignite the Theatrical Comedy i...

Packing Heat: Director Akiva Schaffer and Producer Erica Huggins Reignite the Theatrical Comedy i...

In the world of spoof comedy, few titles loom as large as The Naked Gun. The cult classic film trilogy, based…

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Hearts of Darkness: Writer/Director Fax Bahr Reflects on the Legacy of Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'...

Hearts of Darkness: Writer/Director Fax Bahr Reflects on the Legacy of Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'...

Named after Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, on which Apocalypse Now is loosely based, the 1991 doc…

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