More from Brian Davids
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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Austin Butler on Tom Hanks’ ‘Masters of the Air’ Pitch and “Deeply” Loving ‘Dune: Part Two’
As Austin Butler put the finishing touches on his eventual Oscar-nominated performance as Elvis Presley, his Elvis co-star Tom Hanks was already envisioning the budding superstar’s next move. In early 2021, just weeks before Elvis was scheduled to wrap, Hanks took Butler to dinner and pitched him Masters of the Air, the spiritual follow-up to […]
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How ‘Echo’ EP Marion Dayre Brought a Bit of ‘Better Call Saul’ to the MCU
[This story contains spoilers for Echo.] There are certain television shows that people within the entertainment industry all watch and admire, and one of those shows was Better Call Saul, the celebrated prequel-sequel to the almighty Breaking Bad. The number of influential filmmakers who watched Saul is at least a mile long (Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo […]
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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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‘Echo’ Star Alaqua Cox on That Final Kingpin Face-Off and Maya’s Surprising Next Step
[This story contains spoilers for Echo.] No one has a story quite like Echo star Alaqua Cox. Despite no prior acting experience, Cox, at the encouragement of friends, auditioned on a lark for a coded project that was looking for somebody exactly like her: “an Indigenous deaf woman in their 20s.” Cox then went through […]
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‘Fargo’ Star Juno Temple Breaks Down Finale Showdown and the Unsung Heroes Behind Dot
[This story contains spoilers from Fargo’s season five finale, “Bisquik.”] For Fargo season five star Juno Temple, nothing was going to get in the way of Dorothy “Dot” Lyon’s mostly happy ending. When the dust settled on Noah Hawley’s tremendous fifth season of Fargo, Dot finally overcame her wickedly abusive ex-husband Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), […]
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‘Echo’ Star Vincent D’Onofrio Talks Kingpin’s Next Move and ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Reboot
[This story contains spoilers for Echo.] Echo star Vincent D’Onofrio isn’t ready to say whether Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk has been healed by Maya Lopez. At the end of Disney+ and Hulu’s five-episode miniseries, Echo, Maya (Alaqua Cox) utilizes the powers of her Choctaw ancestors to enter Fisk’s mind and potentially heal him of his childhood […]
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead Talks ‘Ahsoka’ and the Big Swerve of ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’
[This story contains spoilers for Ahsoka and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.] Due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Mary Elizabeth Winstead had to let two exciting projects in Ahsoka and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off speak for themselves, but now she’s finally looking back on her rather significant 2023. In early 2022, Winstead officially joined the Star Wars […]
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Noah Pritzker on the Real-Life Divorce That Inspired ‘Ex-Husbands’
Shortly after the end of his parents’ 35-year marriage, writer-director Noah Pritzker found comfort in the written word. What resulted is now known as Ex-Husbands, a drama-comedy about Griffin Dunne’s Peter Pearce, a New York dentist who’s still reeling from his parents’ divorce six years earlier. Peter must now also come to terms with his […]
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“Can You Hear the Music?” UCLA’s Royce Hall Sure Did at Ludwig Göransson’s ‘Oppenheimer: Live in Concert’ Experience
Last night at UCLA’s Royce Hall, nearly 1,000 lucky attendees got to hear the music that defined the cinematic event of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Following warm introductions from Cillian Murphy and Nolan, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson and his partner in life and music, Serena Göransson, produced a live-to-film experience of their Golden Globe-winning and […]
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David Ayer Talks ‘The Beekeeper’ and Closing the Book on His ‘Suicide Squad’ Cut: “It’s Been Radio Silent”
From penning Training Day (2001) to helming the one-two punch of End of Watch (2012) and Fury (2014), David Ayer has had the film industry in the palm of his hand on a couple of different occasions. Following the success of the latter, he then punched his own ticket to the DCEU, opting to write […]
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