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‘SNL’: The Movie! – How ‘Saturday Night’ Filmmakers Found Their Stars
In order to make Saturday Night, the real-time story of the disastrous and delirious 90 minutes before the first airing of SNL on Oct. 11, 1975, director Jason Reitman had to find actors to play some of the best-known performers to ever grace television sets. To do so, he turned to his longtime casting director […]
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Emile Hirsch Was Told to “Gain the Weight” to Play John Belushi Before Planned Biopic Even Had Funding
Would you gain 100 pounds in the hopes of landing a role? That was the career conundrum faced by Emile Hirsch, who joined THR‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast to relive the making of his 2007 breakout film, Into the Wild. But another film — a planned biopic of comedian John Belushi, in which Hirsch […]
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Meet Arthur Conti, Jenna Ortega’s Scene Partner and “Date from Hell” in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
[This story contains spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Arthur Conti went from zero to sixty in record time. The English actor turned the equivalent of a high school musical into representation, which led to a two-line day on House of the Dragon and an acclaimed performance at London’s Park Theatre. Toward the end […]
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‘The Killer’s Game’ Director J.J. Perry Still Doesn’t Believe a Best Stunt Oscar Is Going to Happen
In the late ‘80s, The Killer’s Game director J.J. Perry moved to Los Angeles shortly after completing his service in the U.S. Army, and almost immediately, he became fast friends with future John Wick co-mastermind Chad Stahelski. The pair cut their teeth as stuntmen, fight choreographers and stunt coordinators, and when Stahelski and his former […]
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‘Speak No Evil’ Filmmaker James Watkins Says His 2008 Debut Was a Reference for the 2022 Danish Film He’s Now Remade
James Watkins’ Speak No Evil will make you reconsider house-guesting in the same way that the English filmmaker’s directorial debut, Eden Lake, did with camping in 2008. In Eden Lake, Kelly Reilly and Michael Fassbender’s characters are on the verge of their engagement during a weekend camping trip in the English countryside, but their plans […]
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Newcomer Gia De Sauvage on Debut Thriller and Her Admiration for Gena Rowlands
Gia De Sauvage is just starting her career onscreen, but she already has a model for the path she’d like to follow. “I just absolutely adore Gena Rowlands, and I would love to have a career like hers,” the newcomer says. She makes her debut in the new television movie, Nightmare in the Desert, the first of the cable […]
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5 Potential Team-Ups for the Next Deadpool Movie
At this point, Deadpool & Wolverine has become such a box office hit, crossed so many milestones and broken enough records that a follow-up seems like a sure thing. So, where do Deadpool and Wolverine go from here? In all likelihood, both will probably show up in Avengers: Secret Wars, if not Avengers: Doomsday before […]
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James McAvoy Talks the Reimagined ‘Speak No Evil’ Ending and Not Being Afraid of Repetition
Speak No Evil star James McAvoy isn’t afraid to play the hits. In Blumhouse and James Watkins’ reimagining of Christian Tafdrup’s psychological horror-thriller Speak No Evil (2022), McAvoy plays Paddy, a doctor who lives off the land with his wife and son in the English countryside. His free-spirited family meets Ben (Scoot McNairy), Louise (Mackenzie […]
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Sienna Miller Talks Nurturing New Talent Alongside Cate Blanchett With Bull-Jumping Short ‘Marion’
Cate Blanchett was, in Sienna Miller‘s words, “floored” by Joe Weiland and Finn Constantine’s short film Marion. After premiering in Venice, the 13-minute-long film is now screening at its second international stop for the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s made Weiland and Constantine “the happiest boys in the world.” It’s made executive producers Blanchett and […]
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Sam Asghari Wants to Be an Action Hero (But All Anybody Asks About Is His Ex-Wife Britney Spears)
Here is a list of things Sam Asghari doesn’t want to talk about: How he met Britney Spears. What it was like dating Britney Spears. What it was like living with Britney Spears. What it was like being married to Britney Spears. Why he divorced Britney Spears (in May, after just a little over one […]
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Michael Long Brings Liverpool to Oldenburg With ‘Baby Brother’: “My City Has Never Been Shown the Way It Should”
Michael Long is a proud Scouser, meaning a native of Liverpool, and wants the world to know it. The actor-turned-director’s debut feature film is getting its world premiere on Friday at Oldenburg Film Festival. It’s a big moment for Long, who admits to The Hollywood Reporter that it’s been a “rough” journey and he sometimes […]
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‘Speak No Evil’ Star Scoot McNairy Explains Why the Reconceived Ending Intrigued Him Most
Ten years ago, Scoot McNairy’s first collaboration with Mackenzie Davis on Halt and Catch Fire had just completed its first season on AMC, and the “little drama that could” gradually became both a critical darling and cult hit. Set in the personal computing and internet revolutions of the ‘80s and ‘90s, McNairy’s Gordon Clark and […]
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Next Big Thing: ‘Nashville’ Child Star Maisy Stella Grows Up
When Maisy Stella was a little girl in her first acting role — as Connie Britton’s daughter on ABC’s musical drama Nashville — she received some life-changing advice. She’d gone out on an audition for another role that she didn’t get and was struggling with the resulting blow to her self-esteem when someone on the […]
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Jason Isaacs on Telling a Love Story With “Polar Opposite” Gillian Anderson in ‘The Salt Path’
Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson had only met socially when they began shooting The Salt Path, but soon built a sparkling chemistry onscreen as a desperate husband and wife walking England’s blustering coast. The Salt Path is a true story. In the memoir written by Raynor Winn, Raynor and her husband, Moth, are in their […]
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Hala Matar’s ‘Electra’ Is Where ‘Mr. Ripley’ and ‘Saltburn’ Meet — And the Director Is Delighted
Hala Matar is the first of her kind. The director tells The Hollywood Reporter she is the first female Bahraini director to make a feature film. After growing up in the Middle East and studying theater at school, Matar studied in America at the University of Virginia. By mistake, she enrolled in a cinematography class, […]
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‘Speak No Evil’ Star Mackenzie Davis Breaks Down the Film’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Reunion
A decade ago, Mackenzie Davis’ breakout role as Cameron Howe on AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire had just finished airing as part of the series’ well received but criminally underseen first season. Fortunately for Halt, the network’s flagship shows, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, had mostly concluded their decorated runs at that point, and AMC, […]
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