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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…

HBO's Lovecraft Country may take place in 1950s Jim Crow America, but the story didn't just stay in one setting, which gave costume designer Dayna Pink a lot to work with. So much so that Pink isn't nominated in a period costume category, instead she is nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes…

For The Flight Attendant, production designer Sara K White was excited to work on creating spaces to physically represent the main character's internal struggles while dealing with a mystery thriller. Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie Bowden, a flight attendant with a drinking problem, who wakes up in a strange hotel room…

As choreographer of the NBC series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Mandy Moore knows how important dancing is to the story. In the series, Zoey (Jane Levy) discovers she has the power to hear people's thoughts through "heart songs," which often take the form of large group musical numbers. One example is "Let's Get…

Based on the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, HBO's Perry Mason tells the origin story of the titular famed defense lawyer, played by Matthew Rhys, in 1932 Los Angeles. To emulate that period of time, cinematographer David Franco referenced early color photography for the tools needed to shoot the series. In this…