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    “Oppenheimer” Production Designer Ruth De Jong on Helping Christopher Nolan Build the Bomb

    • 13.08.2023
    • By Jack Giroux

    Oppenheimer is a colossal achievement. Christopher Nolan’s film is an exquisitely calibrated epic, brimming with ambition and ingenuity, appropriate for its titular protagonist, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the brilliant physicist who led America’s Manhattan Project during World War II. Nolan and his crew, including production designer Ruth De Jong (Nope), reached for the stars and succeeded in their quest for a pure, tangible vision in presenting one of the most important and dangerous minds of the 20th century – the father of the atomic bomb.

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    Paramount Pictures’ Archive Team Andrea Kalas & Randall Thropp on a Few of Their Favorite Things

    • 08.08.2023
    • By Bryan Abrams

    We spoke to Kalas and Thropp about their roles in Paramount’s Archive Department, why their work is not just about preserving the past but helping filmmakers and TV creators make the next future hit, and how some of the most memorable costumes of all time used to be re-used—again and again—before the archives department existed.

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    “Dune” Writer/Director Denis Villeneuve on Bringing a Sci-Fi Epic to Life

    • 28.01.2022
    • By The Credits

    The video is a reminder of how every movie takes a village to make, and when it comes to a film as big and bold as Dune, it’s more like an entire desert city.

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    Here Are 2022’s Likely Blockbusters

    • 07.01.2022
    • By The Credits

    With Sony Pictures officially moving Morbius from January 28 to April 1 in light of the omicron surge, it looks like 2022’s first big blockbuster will be another bat-centric offering.

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    A GOLDEN KEY? Film Fund serves as common link between some of the region’s most promising stories for the screen

    • 14.10.2021
    • By Andrew Pike

    The Fund, a joint initiative of the Motion Picture Association and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, aims to encourage and empower creative filmmakers.

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    “The Matrix Resurrections” Cast Reflects on Legacy of “The Matrix”

    • 08.10.2021
    • By The Credits

    In the new featurette, the cast of The Matrix Resurrections reflects on what the original film meant to them.

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    “No Time to Die” DP Linus Sandgren on Daniel Craig’s Epic Sendoff as James Bond

    • 07.10.2021
    • By Hugh Hart

    In No Time to Die, Daniel Craig gets two hours and 43 minutes to show James Bond fans what they’ll be missing once he exits his five-movie run as the world’s most enduring British spy. Following Craig’s every step, car chase, and explosion along the way is Swedish DP Linus Sandgren.

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    Emmy Winner Jessica Hobbs on Why Directing “The Crown” is a Royal Treat

    • 22.09.2021
    • By Daron James

    The Crown director Jessica Hobbs was also among the newly enshrined during the live broadcast, winning the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series category for the season four finale of the beloved Netflix series.

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    How Underwater Cinematographer Ian Seabrook Got The Shots in “Jungle Cruise”

    • 16.08.2021
    • By Susannah Edelbaum

    Disney’s latest blockbuster based on a ride, director Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise, is a banter-filled romp down the Amazon. Blue-blooded adventurer Lily (Emily Blunt) drags her fusspot brother, MacGregor (Jack Whitehall), to South America in pursuit of the petals of an all-powerful healing tree.

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    Taika Waititi Talks “Thor: Love and Thunder” & His “Star Wars” Movie

    • 12.08.2021
    • By The Credits

    Taika Waititi has a tremendous amount going on at the moment. The writer/director/actor will next be seen in director Shawn Levy’s Free Guy, where he blessedly got a break from the writing and directing duties to simply co-star in the film with Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer.

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    How the Emmy-Nominated “WandaVision” VFX Team Made Magic

    • 11.08.2021
    • By Hugh Hart

    Laden with special effects, big-name stars, and an audacious high concept, WandaVision represented a big swing for Marvel Studios when it debuted in January on Disney+. The bet paid off.

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    Talking Shop with Former Pixar Animator and 2021 Oscar® Nominee Erick Oh

    • 08.08.2021
    • By Justin Sanders

    Every year, one filmmaker takes home the CreativeFuture Innovation Award from the Slamdance Film Festival. This year’s winner is Erick Oh, whose powerful animated short Opera uses a single, massive canvas and an army of faceless, lemming-like drones to convey the full sweep of human society and history in all its beauty, absurdity, and horror.

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    “Black Widow” Stunt Coordinator Rob Inch on the Art of Adrenaline

    • 09.07.2021
    • By Hugh Hart

    Making the action pop alongside director Cate Shortland is Black Widow stunt coordinator Rob Inch, who previously worked on Wonder Woman 1984, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Captain America: The First Avenger. Speaking from England, where he’s prepping a new Marvel movie, Inch deconstructs Black Widow‘s most thrilling set-pieces.

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    International Women’s Day Profile: Director Tan Chui Mui

    • 09.03.2021
    • By Silvia Wong

    Pioneering Malaysian New Wave director Tan Chui Mui was on the final recce of her latest film, Barbarian Invasion, in a remote fishing village […]

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    “To All the Boys” Producer Says Goodbye with “Always and Forever”

    • 12.02.2021
    • By Kelle Long

    What began with a letter is poetically set to end with one too.

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    Heading Abroad With Charlie’s Angels Location Manager

    • 03.12.2019
    • By Susannah Edelbaum

    After a sixteen-year hiatus, the sorority, camaraderie, and crime-fighting of Charlie’s Angels is back.

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