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Warning: The following podcast contains spoilers about F9, opening Friday. Screenwriter Daniel Casey typically finds himself in front of executives and producers when he’s in a pitch meeting. However, when he walked into the room for F9, it was an anomaly for him to pitch the pic’s director, Justin Lin, head…

When it came to mounting Disney+/Marvel’s WandaVision which thrusts Avengers protags Wanda Maximoff and Vision into various sitcoms from Bewitched to Malcolm in the Middle, director Matt Shakman and production designer Mark Worthington took the advice of comedy legend Dick Van Dyke and ran parts of the production…

It all began in a Honda Pilot en route to Portland, ME. Amici Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky and Paul W. Downs were headed to tape a segment for the latter’s Netflix comedy special, and a discussion broke out about legendary female comedians, who never got their due, and for one reason or another, might have tripped in…

“I love doing things that are about fashion,” Ryan Murphy tells us on the latest episode of Crew Call. “A lot of people think fashion is frivolous and treat it as such. I think it’s true art, it’s how we live and it’s ‘the time’. I take it quite seriously,” adds the EP and writer who made Halston a priority as a…

Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains details about the first episode of Marvel’s Loki, which is available to stream on Disney+ staring today. British TV director Kate Herron was obsessed with Tom Hiddleston’s trickster Loki god character. When she caught wind that Marvel was looking for a director, she pitched them…

It was once said that a second season of the popular HBO series Big Little Lies wasn’t possible, that is until author Liane Moriarty came up with an outline for one. All of this raises the question as to whether we’ll see more of Kate Winslet’s Delco Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan in another season of Mare of East…

Paul McCartney once told a Liverpool High School class that when it comes to songwriting, “‘I don’t know how to do this.” Of course, that’s only because songwriting comes so natural to him. While deconstructing songwriting might be a challenge to the great Beatle, sometimes there’s a lot to learn simply by watching…

“I was always interested in the family dynamic because I come from a musical family,”  blockbuster producer Frank Marshall tells us on what drew him to direct the HBO documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart. “I was always interested in what made them tick. Until I examined their career and journey, I…

Not all actors are former professional athletes or, for that matter, former soccer players. But discovering some who were, such as Cristo Fernández, who plays the wildly hysterically funny Latin American soccer player Dani Rojas in AppleTV+’s Ted Lasso, was a feat worth screaming “goal” about for series co-creator Bill…

While the U.S. Capitol January 6 riots shocked the world, they were equally jarring for the creative team behind Disney+/Marvel’s political action series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.  “It only goes to show that the conversation we were having is long overdue,” says series director Kari Skogland. Falcon and the Wi…

The 25th of April is a special day for songwriter Diane Warren. Not just because it’s the Oscars and she’s nominated for her 12th Best Song in a row for “Io Sì (Seen)” from the Netflix Sophia Loren movie The Life Ahead, but also because it’s her late father’s birthday. “He would have been 105 years old. He was the…

Updated with Saturday AM B.O.: There’s a great axiom when it comes to success in Hollywood; a saying which remains true through good times and bad, even at a moment when streaming is stepping on theatrical’s feet, and that is, “Talent rules.” Such talent is Russian filmmaker Ilya Naishuller, whose Universal action…