Elsie Fisher, Rain Spencer Interview
The Big Picture Returning to Cousins Beach is bittersweet after the loss of Susannah, but the new season offers a whole new summer and love triangle. The characters face the conflict of potentially losing the Fisher beach house, navigating complicated…
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Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Her Career and New Book
A sketch by Ruth E. Carter for the costumes of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Ruth E. Carter is one of the best-known and most highly acclaimed costume designers working today. Since the very beginning of her 30-plus-year career, she’s had…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Producers Discuss the 23-Year Journey to Make the Vampire FIlm
Dracula's hot. The bloodsucker always has been, it seems, dating back cinematically for more than a century. But with this year's Empire V and Renfield, along with upcoming films like Robert Eggers' Nosferatu and a possible Dracula remake from Chloé…
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Why Dracula Looks So Good in the Movie
The Big Picture Director André Øvredal discusses making The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a film inspired by one chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Øvredal emphasizes the importance of capturing as much as possible in camera, including building a full…
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‘Aporia’ Director on Casting Judy Greer & Crafting a Time Machine
The Big Picture Aporia is a sci-fi thriller that feels grounded in reality, exploring grief and the moral and ethical lines one will cross to protect loved ones. The film follows Sophie, whose husband was killed by a drunk driver,…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Crew Built a Functioning 100-Ton 19th Century Ship
Summary Universal Pictures went all out in bringing The Last Voyage of the Demeter to life, with meticulous attention to detail in both the makeup and the production design. The production designer, Edward Thomas, decided to build the exterior ship…
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“I Spent Nearly 14 hours Staring At That Lamp”: DP Paul Yee on Joy Ride
Sabrina Wu, Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu and Sherry Cola in Joy Ride When you make your living in production, the relationship between work and time off can be a complicated one. After months of Fraturdays and Second Meal pizza at…
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Alia Bhatt Gets Real About Her Heart of Stone Character
Ask people in the West, and Netflix's upcoming action blockbuster Heart of Stone is highly anticipated thanks to the combination of Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan. Ask people in other parts of the world, and they'll simply say, Alia Bhatt.…
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Tiffany Haddish on Her Messy Flashback Episode
The Big Picture Detective Danner's return in Season 2 of The Afterparty brings a new group of characters to play with, creating a fun and exciting dynamic. Despite no longer being a detective, Danner is drawn to solving mysteries and…
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“I Realized This Was a Film Not Necessarily About Things Seen…But Things Felt”: Elaine McMillion Sheldon on King Coal
King Coal Like many Filmmaker readers, I first encountered the work of Elaine McMillion Sheldon a decade ago, when the West Virginia native landed on our annual 25 New Faces of Independent Film list in 2013. She’d just completed Hollow, which…
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The Pod Generation Director Sophie Barthes Discusses Love, Marriage, and AI
The Pod Generation is a sci-fi comedy about a couple using an artificial womb to conceive in the near future. Emilia Clarke stars as Rachel, a successful career woman who's about to be promoted. Her company doesn't want productivity threatened…
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‘War Pony’ Creatives on Telling an Authentic Indigenous Story
The Big Picture It took a lot of effort to bring the indie film War Pony to life, but the filmmakers were determined to tell an authentic story about Oglala Lakota men and their struggles on the Pine Ridge Reservation.…
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