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“Rob (Reiner) always wanted to do from the moment My Dinner With Andre came out — ‘My Lunch With Albert,” Albert Brooks shares about his best friend’s vision for a movie about himself. “I never wanted to do that,” Brooks adds. But when a documentary about the stand-up comic turned Oscar…

When it comes to a George Miller directed Mad Max saga movie, actors are committed 1000% to the stunts, but composers are there too, for the long haul. So much so, that Furiosa composer Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL moved to Sydney, Australia to pen the score, his third with Miller after Mad Max: Fury…

What works theatrically? And how do you turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’ for a passion project in an everchanging entertainment landscape where there’s a push and pull between the big screen and streaming? Deadline On today’s…

"There are some replications in things and specific references, where it's almost like Easter eggs for the fans, but they're not really the same," says costume designer Jacqueline Durran. Rather than creating large scale versions of existing outfits, Durran says she used them as inspiration for entirely…

In great times of despair, come great surprises. That’s what happened in early 2022 as the specialty box office was looking to regain its footing after the Omicron variant: Just when we thought all was lost, A24 showed up with a rare gem, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and provided arthouses…

Since the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was awarded in 2002 to DreamWorks' Shrek, the animation industry has made incredible strides. This awards season, such films are pushing the boundaries of what animation can be, and VFX plays a huge part in infusing new artistic styles into every…

EXCLUSIVE: When location scouting for Oppenheimer, production designer Ruth De Jong was tasked with finding a location to recreate Los Alamos. Although the actual town of Los Alamos was too modernized to use for the period piece, De Jong and her team spent some time there for research. "I began laying out…

Sporting events captivate viewers everywhere, whether they are showing a competition or an athlete doing the impossible, but enticing an audience through a sports film in the same way can be a difficult task. It's up to the cinematographers to bring a unique point of view that will highlight the tension…

After the production team at Studio Ghibli disbanded, cinematographer Atsushi Okui worked as a freelance artist for a while. But when director Hayao Miyazaki began working on The Boy and the Heron, Okui was excited to be called back to the team. In his most personal work to date, Miyazaki's The Boy an…

Film Liaisons in California Statewide (FLICS) has announced winners for the 28th annual California on Location Awards (COLAs), presented Friday at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City. More than 650 supporters of California-based productions attended this year's awards ceremony, which…

"There's something really special about Mario games," says composer Brian Tyler. As a lifelong fan of the Mario series, Tyler was excited to bring the music from all of those worlds into a new animated universe for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. "I realized by hearing the music outside of the game, it…

In most fantasy movies, the job of the production team is to create a breathtaking new world that dazzles the viewer, but this Oscar season shows a new trend: stories in which the characters themselves are taken on a journey of discovery and adventure. Related Stories …