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‘The Last Showgirl’ Backer Pinky Promise on Building a “New and Exciting” Slate
When Kara Durrett and Jesse Burgum, the duo behind the production-finance company Pinky Promise, first met, it was 104 degrees. They were filming in the attic of a church in Decatur, Georgia, working on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, the first movie Burgum financed where Durrett was working as an independent producer. “A lot […]
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Rising Star Drew Starkey on ‘Queer’ and How U.S. Audiences “Can Be Very Uptight” About Sex Scenes
Drew Starkey was a day into rehearsals for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer when he found himself rolling around the floor in a sweaty clinch with Daniel Craig. “We jumped into it, just grabbing and throwing our bodies on top of one another, rolling around, getting intermingled,” Starkey recalls, “I think it unlocked something subconsciously, gave us […]
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Malcolm Washington on Surprising His Mom With ‘The Piano Lesson’ Tribute
“It’s all a little overwhelming. When you make something that’s so personal to you, it feels like you’re just making it for yourself or for your people. But then you’re reminded that this will exist in the world,” says Malcolm Washington of his feature directorial debut, The Piano Lesson. The adaptation of the August Wilson […]
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Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche on Reuniting 28 Years After ‘The English Patient’
It’s been nearly 30 years since Juliette Binoche peeled a plum and slipped it into Ralph Fiennes’ mouth. That’s the first scene between the actors in The English Patient (1996), with Binoche playing Hana, the nurse to Fiennes’ titular character, a severely burned and bedridden patient with a mysterious past. The rest, of course, is […]
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Anderson .Paak Unpacks ‘K-Pops,’ His Directorial Debut
Anderson .Paak was looking for the exit. The multiple Grammy-winning R&B artist, rapper and drummer was about to make his foray into the world of moviemaking by jumping into the deep end — the very deep end — and co-writing, starring in and providing original music for K-Pops, which also happened to be his feature […]
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How ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Producer Tommy Harper Became a Franchise Whisperer
Tommy Harper is used to getting phone calls featuring unusual requests. His phone might ring and it’s Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski asking him to figure out how to film Top Gun: Maverick in real jets. Or J.J. Abrams is on the line, asking how to bring the massive crew of a Star Wars movie […]
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M. Night Shyamalan Movies, Ranked
There is no filmmaker like M. Night Shyamalan. Whatever you may feel about the director’s work, you’d be hard-pressed to call him unoriginal. He is entirely his own and, through that facet, has built a filmography that challenges our contemporary considerations of tone, performance and narrative. While it’s all too easy to get hung up […]
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Rising Star Mark Eydelshteyn Had to Convince His Teachers to Let Him Star in Sean Baker’s Cannes Winner ‘Anora’
Talking to Russian actor Mark Eydelshteyn, it is easy to understand why Sean Baker cast him in Anora — set to screen at TIFF — as Ivan, an incredibly likable goofball who marries a Brighton Beach sex worker but also happens to be the son of a Russian oligarch. Eydelshteyn, with limbs that seem to move at twice the regular human […]
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Eddie Huang’s New Doc ‘Vice Is Broke’ Digs Into the Media Giant’s Downfall
“You have to be privy to how your art lives in a global, capitalist world,” explains Eddie Huang from his backyard in Los Angeles. Over the past year, the filmmaker has been thinking a lot about the interplay between artistic endeavors and corporate ambition as he made his documentary debut, Vice Is Broke, about the […]
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‘The Killer’s Game’ Star Sofia Boutella Talks Her Action Respite and ‘Rebel Moon’ Character’s Future
Sofia Boutella desperately needed a break from action, and J.J. Perry’s The Killer’s Game provided exactly that. After devoting nearly the entirety of 2022 to her most physically demanding role yet as Kora/Arthelais in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon franchise, Boutella was relieved that she didn’t have to bear the burden of being the primary action […]
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Demi Moore’s Director Coralie Fargeat Is Not Afraid to Gross You Out With ‘The Substance’
Coralie Fargeat tried to give everyone fair warning. When the French filmmaker was readying her latest film, The Substance, she wrote the script in its entirety, filled with as much detail as possible, before taking it to producing partners. When it came to casting, she had long conversations with her leads about why the extremity […]
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How the ‘Halloween’ Director Went From Slashers to Slapstick
After successfully reviving one legendary horror franchise and not quite managing to relaunch another, David Gordon Green needed a “bit of a palate cleanser.” Since Halloween, his 2018 reboot of the John Carpenter slasher pic, Green has become a bit of a go-to-guy for mid-budget horror masters Blumhouse, delivering a full trilogy of new Halloweens […]
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The Record-Breaking Kiss That Nearly Broke Pee-wee Herman
It was Paul Reubens’ second turn at bat. The actor, then 35, had already rocketed to fame as Pee-wee Herman, the bicycle-obsessed man-child from 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure — the feature debut from Tim Burton, who is back in cinemas this weekend with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. For his sophomore outing, 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee, Reubens relocated […]
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You Can’t Scare Mike Flanagan. Can You?
Mike Flanagan built his reputation by freaking out audiences. With a string of horror hits on TV (Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher) and in film (most notably adaptations of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game), the writer-director also forged a lucrative career. He understands his lane […]
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Behind Neon’s Banner Year and Rivalry With A24
It is virtually unheard-of for top filmmakers and talent to get back to a journalist almost immediately without going through armies of publicists. Not so when it comes to talking about Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn, the savvy and innovative indie executive whose company is enjoying its best year in history thanks to nurturing […]
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Dave Bautista Talks ‘The Killer’s Game’ Romance and How ‘Dune: Part Two’ Repurposed ‘Dune’ Footage
It wasn’t the action that piqued Dave Bautista’s interest in The Killer’s Game; it was the chance to play a proper romantic lead for the very first time. Like a lot of actors, Bautista is most intrigued by the roles that frighten him, and so the chance to play lovestruck assassin Joe Flood was something […]
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