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‘Banshees of Inisherin’ Director Martin McDonagh Describes His Ideal Formula: ‘A Touch of Despair and a Couple of Laughs’
By Steve Pond | March 2, 2023 @ 1:00 PMTheWrap magazine: “It’s always interesting for a film to go from sadness back to comedy,” says the writer-director of his ode to friendship, niceness and severed fingers
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How the ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Crafts Teams Helped Make the Film an Oscar Favorite
By Steve Pond | March 1, 2023 @ 11:00 AMTheWrap magazine: Director Edward Berger and his collaborators detail what went into the effects, sound, makeup and music that brought multiple nominations
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Why ‘Babylon’ Composer Justin Hurwitz Included Circus Instruments and Broken Pianos in Film Score
By Joe McGovern | February 20, 2023 @ 12:21 PM”I was sitting here just blowing into kazoos to make fun sounds,“ says the two-time Oscar-winner about his unusual tools for creating wild, memorable music
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: How Costume Designer Shirley Kurata Outfitted the Multiverse
By Loree Seitz | January 3, 2023 @ 10:00 AMTheWrap Magazine: The designer drew from Michelle Yeoh’s filmography, Japanese fashion, sci-fi films and more to dress the breakout indie hit
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Inside the Complexity of Editing ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
By Drew Taylor | December 26, 2022 @ 12:55 PMTheWrap magazine: ”Every sequence is at the highest level of difficulty,“ says editor Stephen Rivkin
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Why Brett Morgen Refused to Define David Bowie With ‘Moonage Daydream’
By Steve Pond | December 5, 2022 @ 4:00 PMTheWrap magazine: ”Bowie defies facts, defies definition and is beautifully mysterious,“ the famed documentarian says
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‘Bardo’ Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu: Autobiographies Lie, but Fiction Tells the Truth
By Steve Pond | November 29, 2022 @ 11:00 AMTheWrap magazine: ”Autobiography pretends it’s making factual claims, but it’s not,“ says the director of ”Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths“
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The Emmys Cold List: Here’s a Final Salute to Shows and Stars That Voters Overlooked in 2022
By Steve Pond | August 19, 2022 @ 3:17 PMTheWrap magazine: From ”The Is Us“ to ”Yellowstone“ to Marvel, the Emmys left some favorites by the wayside this year
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How Director Michael Showalter Went Behind the Mask of Elizabeth Holmes — and Tammy Faye Bakker
By Steve Pond | August 17, 2022 @ 2:00 PMTheWrap magazine: Showalter has already directed Jessica Chastain to an Oscar this year, and he has the chance to do the same with Amanda Seyfried and an Emmy
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Zendaya, Julia Garner and More: Meet the Drama Performers With Multiple Emmy Nominations
By Steve Pond | August 16, 2022 @ 9:42 PMTheWrap magazine: The list also includes Jason Bateman, Rhea Seehorn and Sydney Sweeney
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The Emmys’ Craziest Battle: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar vs. Barack Obama
By Steve Pond | August 16, 2022 @ 9:40 PMTheWrap magazine: The Lakers great and the 44th president are both nominated in the Outstanding Narrator category
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Christina Ricci May Be Funny in ‘Yellowjackets,’ But Don’t Call Her Comic Relief
By Steve Pond | August 16, 2022 @ 1:30 PMTheWrap magazine: “I tend to over-empathize with my characters, so the hardest thing was to feel like the character was being laughed at all the time,” the Emmy-nominated actress says
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Here’s the Emmy Rule That Makes Voters Look Lazy
By Steve Pond | August 12, 2022 @ 12:00 PMIt’s easy to blame Television Academy members for nominating so many actors from the same shows, but is the system itself to blame?
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Why a Short-Form Comedy Program Is the Best Show on TV
By Libby Hill | August 11, 2022 @ 12:33 PMTheWrap magazine: ”I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson“ might well be the most uproarious, humane and disturbing reflection of our troubled times
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‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Cleans Up in Emmy Writing Category — and Clocks Another Win for Diversity
By Steve Pond | August 11, 2022 @ 10:00 AMTheWrap magazine: Four years ago, Stefani Robinson became the first Black woman ever nominated for writing and producing. This year, she did it again