After the film adaptation of her Broadway play American Son dropped on Netflix in late 2019, producer, star and, now, Emmy nominee Kerry Washington urged fans to engage with her in a dialogue about what they’d just witnessed: a heart-wrenching tale of a biracial couple whose son, Jamal, is killed by the police. What followed … Read more
This year’s field of Emmy-nominated actresses across both the comedy and drama series categories offers a refreshing twist on the old behind-everygreat-man axiom: Alongside many of these great leading ladies is another great woman. A growing crop of television’s top-tier series are fueled by increasingly compelling, complicated, codependent and often clashing female relationships, whether playing … Read more
Adecade ago, the limited series was on its deathbed, as was its place at the Emmys. To be fair, the “limited series” didn’t really exist. Way back in the ancient past of 2010, they were called “miniseries,” a name that primarily referred to three things: PBS prestige literary adaptations, broadcast multiparters reserved to air during … Read more
After March’s coronavirus pandemic shutdown, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Greig Fraser did some commercial work in the U.S. before returning to the U.K. to resume production on Warner Bros.’ The Batman. During one of these commercial shoots, a crewmember tested positive for COVID-19. “When he tested positive, we shut down,” Fraser says, noting that everyone on set … Read more
Battered by the pandemic and growing political headwinds, Hollywood’s business prospects in China are becoming bleak. A state oftumult in Washington-Beijing diplomatic relations is putting greater scrutiny on film activities in the country, while the United States’ failure to contain COVID-19 is forcing the industry to take its pedal offthe accelerator in China’s theatrical market. … Read more
afew years ago, Max Barbakow found himself amid what felt like an endless Southern California wedding season. These circa-2015 nuptials all had traditional elements as well as of-the-moment millennial trappings like chalkboard signs, Mason jars, flower crowns and sometimes a photo booth thrown in for fun. “Every wedding started to feel the same,” says the … Read more
a manda Seyfried has racked up a wide assortment of credits during her two decades in the business — from crowd-pleasers like 2004’s Mean Girls and 2008’s Mamma Mia!to award winners like 2012’s Les Misérables and 2018’s First Reformed, not to mention four seasons on HBO’s Big Love. The 35-year-old is now garnering the best … Read more
f ew people in Hollywood history have experienced higher highs or lower lows than Ben Affleck has over the course of 40 years in the business. A two-time Oscar winner (for co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon and for producing Argo) who also is a tabloid target (from “Bennifer” to back tattoos), the 48-year-old … Read more
u niversal’s News ofthe World is the second collaboration between director Paul Greengrass and Oscarwinning Argo editor William Goldenberg following their 2018 feature about a terrorist attack, 22 July. For Goldenberg, a favorite scene in this post-Civil War Western is a nail-biting action sequence that is elevated by the fact that it moves the movie … Read more
in some alternative multiverse, where COVID-19 never took hold and upended Hollywood’s 2020 release calendar, right now we’d probably be debating whether Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is the frontrunner for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe for best motion picture, musical or comedy. After all,the fingersnapping 1961 film adaptation of the ground-breaking Broadway … Read more