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When a producer like Barbara Broccoli flies to your concert and hands you 23 pages from the next James Bond script, you could say you’ve landed the job of writing the pic’s theme song. However, multi-Grammy winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell remain humble, saying that at really no point in time were they sure…

The Searchlight and 20th Television series The Dropout drops on Hulu tomorrow, March 3, at an intriguing time, close to two months after Therano founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges, specifically for defrauding investors. Holmes’ tale is that of a Silicon Valley tragic…

On today’s Crew Call we speak with 2x Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges on his latest 1970s Paul Thomas Anderson reteam, Licorice Pizza, and the pic’s breakout actress, Alana Haim, on her character’s get-up for a carefree, hot summer stretch in the San Fernando Valley, 51 years ago. Bridges, who previously…

There’s a fascinating rhythm, and most definitely visually, to Joe Wright’s filmography, and a lot of that has to do with the filmmaker’s longstanding working relationship with DP Seamus McGarvey. The duo met doing music videos together and went on to work on six movies, starting with 2007’s Atonement, on which…

Location scouting for a period film can be difficult, since you can't always use the original location due to modern elements. Luckily production designer Grant Major was able to transform a small plot of New Zealand into 1925 Montana for The Power of the Dog. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as wealthy Montana rancher Phil…

Coming from a choral background, composer Daniel Hart was well prepared to score The Green Knight, but the real challenge was creating an ancient sound. With a basis in ancient England during the time of King Arthur, it was important for the choral elements to use the language of the time. Hart researched a lot of…

We’ve all seen our great share of streaming while in isolation during Covid, but nothing was a better reminder of the power of the big screen than the Edgar Wright-directed, produced and co-penned fantasy-horror-romance Last Night in Soho, from its visceral re-creation of the 1960s London to Anya Taylor-Joy’s sublime…

On the latest episode of Crew Call, producers Tim and Trevor White of Star Thrower Entertainment talk to us about getting Serena and Venus Williams on board for a feature about their tough-as-nails, relentless, ambitious coach father Richard Williams, a man who transformed them into global tennis champs. The pitch…

UPDATED: Ever since Todd Black got into the film business as a producer, he wanted to work with Aaron Sorkin. “I remember early on seeing things he wrote, even plays, and going ‘Wow, this guy has a voice like nobody’s business,'” says the Oscar-nominated producer of Fences.  However, Black says “I never had anything…

Production designer Patrice Vermette, who with Dune marks his fifth feature collaboration with Denis Villeneuve, knew what a precious childhood dream the Frank Herbert novel was to the filmmaker. “For Denis, it was always important to have immersive environments,” says the production designer about the pic’s set…

In the wake of creating a fierce, hypnotic classical sound for the media dynasty politics of HBO’s Succession, which won him a Primetime Emmy, Nicholas Britell turns the volume up to an 11 with big band jazzy score for Adam McKay’s new Netflix satire feature Don’t Look Up.  As the composer explains here, he started at…

It's a big Thanksgiving week for multihyphenate Lin-Manuel Miranda: His feature directorial debut, Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…Boom!, dropped Friday on Netflix, and the Disney animated musical Encanto, for which he wrote all the songs and has a story by credit, hits movie theaters. All of this can only further propel…