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Kathryn Newton Talks ‘Lisa Frankenstein,’ Young Avengers, ‘Big Little Lies 3’ and ‘Freaky Death Day’
Kathryn Newton’s feature film career continues to bear fruit. Just five years ago, she was a series regular on two hit television series, HBO’s Big Little Lies and Netflix’s The Society, but when the pandemic played a role in the un-renewal of the latter, Newton wasted no time amassing an impressive slate of films. First […]
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‘The Seeding’ Filmmaker Barnaby Clay Talks the Challenges of Indie Horror and the Roads Not Taken
Independent filmmaking is not for the faint of heart, and writer-director Barnaby Clay just spent eight years learning that lesson en route to his first narrative feature, The Seeding. Clay began his directorial career in music videos for artists such as Rihanna, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gnarls Barkley, as well as short films and […]
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Mayor of Rome on Turning the Eternal City Into a “Global Capital of Cinema”
Not since the days of Ben-Hur, Cleopatra and Fellini classics like La Dolce Vita has Rome enjoyed the boom in film production it’s experiencing at the moment. From Tom Cruise racing through the eternal city’s narrow streets in Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, to Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated immigrant drama Lo Capitano, the Italian […]
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How Gus Van Sant Earned His Rep as “The Mellowest Man in Hollywood”
Gus Van Sant has taken on a few superlatives over the course of his 40-year career: indie provocateur, Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker and, per the late Robin Williams, “mellowest man in Hollywood.” A label that long eluded the 71-year-old director, despite his line of work, was Angeleno. Van Sant built one of the more eclectic résumés in […]
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The Brutally Honest Barbie Dolls Mattel’s “Women in Film” Collection Should Have Included
After the triumph of Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar Barbie movie, Mattel recently revealed that its annual “Career of the Year” Barbie collection would showcase Women in Film. Four dolls were announced — studio executive, director, cinematographer and movie star — leading some on social media site X and various other cursed corners of the Internet to point out the […]
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‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ Team on Making a COVID Doc Inside a Nursing Home: “We Were Fighting for Our Lives”
The horrors and resilience of people during the biggest global pandemic since the height of HIV in the ’80s and ’90s has been captured again and again by documentaries over the last several years. Inside looks at the country’s emergency rooms as they raced to save lives have been cast against theaters trying to weather […]
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Nikolaj Arcel, Ilker Çatak and Other Shortlisted Filmmakers on Bringing Their Movies to Life
The second of two panels hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at the Palm Springs International Feature Film featured a breadth of official Oscar submissions from around the world. The discussion, moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo, highlighted how these films varied greatly in both tone and scope. One such film is Germany’s entry, The […]
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Matteo Garrone, Tran Anh Hung and More International Helmers on What Drove Them to Make Their Oscar Shortlisted Films
This year’s Palm Springs Film Festival saw not one but two international feature panel discussions hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. The first, moderated by THR’s own Kevin Cassidy, highlighted some of the most exciting non-English-language films of the year. Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano is Italy’s submission for the Oscar this year and follows two boys […]
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph on Her First Oscar Nomination: “To Be At This Moment Is Quite Something”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph became a first-time Oscar nominee Tuesday morning for her performance as the grieving chef Mary in Alexander Payne’s Christmas dramedy The Holdovers, in which she stars alongside fellow nominee Paul Giamatti and newcomer Dominic Sessa. Randolph is no stranger to acclaim for her work, having been Tony nominated for her performance in […]
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“I Am Limitless”: Colman Domingo Reacts to His First Oscar Nomination for ‘Rustin’
Colman Domingo became a first-time Oscar nominee Tuesday morning for his leading role in Rustin, the biopic of openly gay civil rights advocate Bayard Rustin directed by George C. Wolfe. Domingo has been acting for years, most recently in projects as varied as HBO’s Euphoria and the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple. With […]
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“When I Read the Script, I Went From Excited to Elated”: THR Panel Conversation With Jennifer Grey
When Jennifer Grey received the script for A Real Pain, she was — like most of the country — deeply entrenched in the final episodes of Succession. The actress, who is best known for her work in movies like Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, was considering a role in the story (written and […]
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‘Mean Girls’ Star Avantika Talks Meeting Amanda Seyfried and Her Movie-Stealing Musical Number
Within hours of Mean Girls’ (2024) box office-topping release, bootleg video of Avantika’s song-and-dance number, “Sexy,” circulated social media to the praise of people far and wide. Avantika plays a new take on Amanda Seyfried’s Karen in Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.’s film adaptation of Tina Fey’s Mean Girls Broadway musical, which was based […]
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Backlash: Blame the Gatekeepers, Not the Filmmakers
Since their respective premieres in 2023, two of this year’s best picture frontrunners have contended with very similar criticisms. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which details the invention of the atomic bomb by an American team of physicists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, does not depict the direct outcome of the Manhattan Project: the nuclear devastation levied […]
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Hollywood Flashback: 30 Years Ago, Sundance Checked Out ‘Clerks’
When Kevin Smith shopped Clerks at the Sundance Film Festival, he didn’t anticipate that the comedy would ignite his career at age 23. The budding director was a film school dropout and had penned the screenplay while working at a New Jersey convenience store called the Quick Stop. Clerks focuses on Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and […]
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Amazon Labor Doc Tells David and Goliath Battle of Our Time
In March of 2020, Amazon fired Chris Smalls, an employee who led a walkout at its Staten Island, New York, warehouse known as JFK8 over pandemic working conditions. A memo that later was leaked to Vice News revealed that an Amazon executive dismissed Smalls as “not smart or articulate” in a strategy meeting with Jeff […]
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Jake Johnson Is Taking a Break From Directing After ‘Self Reliance’: “I’d Have to Fall in Love With an Idea”
[The following story includes spoilers for Hulu film Self Reliance.] With Self Reliance, Jake Johnson just wanted to create a film that people would be excited to watch and share with their friends. In his feature length directorial debut, which he also wrote and stars in, Johnson portays Thomas, a man stuck in a rut, […]
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