‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Director Talks About All the High Art Shout-Outs He Crammed In
Oscar Wrap magazine: Animated film is loaded with references to Velazquez, Botticelli, Warhol, and…Tarantino?
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Why Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ Shoot Required a Lot of Trips to the ‘Puppet Hospital’
Oscar Wrap magazine: Filmmaker’s animation partners discuss making and toying with the 1,105 puppets used in “Isle of Dogs”
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How ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Gave the Classic Disney Princesses a Makeover
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Every single one of them is a little weird,” co-director Rich Moore says
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How Brad Bird Overcame Superhero Fatigue to Make ‘The Incredibles 2’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “I thought, ‘There’s already too many superhero films — is the public going to be sick of them by the time this comes out?'” says Bird
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‘Black Panther’ Stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan on ‘Broadening People’s Bandwidth’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “Over the years Hollywood has not put its resources behind movies like this,” Boseman says
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‘The Rider': Chloé Zhao Explains How Brady Jandreau Shaped Her Quiet Masterpiece
Oscar Wrap magazine: At every stage of filming, Zhao’s tale of a rodeo cowboy forced into early retirement was shaped by its lead actor
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Regina Hall Explains Why ‘Support the Girls’ Isn’t Your Typical #MeToo Movie
Oscar Wrap magazine: “I kept waiting for this studio-engine plot to reveal, and it didn’t,” actress says of Andrew Bujalski’s film
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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Team on the High Tech Needed for the Hit Film’s Lo-Fi Look
Oscar Wrap magazine: “Every single day, we had a roadblock in our way,” co-director Bob Persichetti says
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Anime Master Mamoru Hosoda on Why ‘Mirai’ Could Be the Last of Its Kind
Oscar Wrap magazine: “I have been creating animation films using paper and pencil, paper and paint,” Hosoda says as the anime landscape continues to shift
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Ethan Hawke on Paul Schrader’s ‘Life or Death’ Approach to ‘First Reformed’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “He was trembling the way a young artist trembles with anticipation, anxiety, fear, electrical current,” the star says of the veteran writer-director
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‘First Reformed’ Star Ethan Hawke Portraits (Exclusive Photos)
The actor stops by StudioWrap for an interview and photo session
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‘The Favourite’ Director on Finding ‘Synchronicity’ in a Period Drama About a Mad Ruler
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s always going to be present wherever there are people with power that have gone crazy,” Yorgos Lanthimos says of the film’s relevance in the Trump era
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Emily Blunt on How Mary Poppins’ Adventures Are ‘Like Heroin to Her’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “She’s like an adrenaline junkie,” the actress says of her character in “Mary Poppins Returns”
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Stars and Director Portraits, From Emily Blunt to Lin-Manuel Miranda (Exclusive Photos)
Emily Mortimer, Ben Whishaw and Rob Marshall join Blunt and Miranda at StudioWrap for an interview and photo session
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Lin-Manuel Miranda on Why a ‘Puerto Rican Dude’ in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Is Such a Breakthrough
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “We’re not only playing the ‘Latino’ roles, but also playing great roles where race is just a part of it — it’s a step forward for representation,” the actor says
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‘Black Panther’ Stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan Recall Playing the Same Role on ‘All My Children’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “They said, ‘You are too much trouble,'” Boseman says the soap told him when he was fired for voicing objections to the part — that Jordan then took over
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‘The Death of Stalin': Armando Iannucci Explores the Nature of Power Through Black Comedy
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Veep” creator tells TheWrap about the improvisational nature of the film’s kangaroo court climax
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Oscars’ Best Picture Category Needs Fixing – Here’s an Easy Way to Do It
OscarWrap magazine: At a time when the Academy wants to embrace inclusion and diversity, it’s sticking to a system that narrows voters’ focus
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Spike Lee on the New Wave of Hit-Making Black Filmmakers: ‘I Hope This Is Not a Trend’
OscarWrap magazine: “I hope this is steady, that it’s not just like a blip,” the “BlackKklansman” director says
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Inside ‘Green Book': Read Tony Lip’s Real Letters From the Road Tour With Donald Shirley
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Nick Vallelonga, son of the man played by Viggo Mortensen, says his father’s reaction to the movie would be, “Why the hell weren’t you making movies about me a long time ago?”
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‘Ben Is Back’ Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Why the Drug Addiction Drama Hits Close to Home
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I started exploring why heroin and opioids were impacting so many many people I love,” Hedges says
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Why ‘Vice’ Director Adam McKay Doesn’t Think Dick Cheney Shouldn’t Be Compared to Donald Trump
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Dick Cheney really understands the system, and I get the feeling that the people in the White House now aren’t interested in government,” the writer-director says
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Yes, ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Screenwriter Wrote Those Love Scenes About His Aunt Ruth Bader Ginsburg
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was not on the set that day, which was not an accident,” Daniel Stiepleman says
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Zoe Kazan on Her Wildly Productive 2018: 2 Movies and a Baby
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Zoe Kazan wrote and produced “Wildlife” and starred in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” — but that was just the start of her eventful 2018
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How Paul Greengrass’ ’22 July’ Shows the ‘Right-Wing, Populist Typhoon Blowing Through the West’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: The British director’s film is set in 2011, but he says, “It’s the story of where we are today — how do we fight for our democracy at a time when it’s under profound challenge”
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‘Private Life’ Star Kathryn Hahn on Her Onscreen Chemistry With Paul Giamatti: ‘A Soupy Mystery’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s hard to even talk about our process, but I didn’t have to look anywhere but into his eyeballs,” actress says of her work with her co-star
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Why ‘Leave No Trace’ Breakout Star Thomasin McKenzie Isn’t Gunning for a Marvel Movie Anytime Soon
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was really attracted to the fact that there weren’t any villains or antagonists or bad guys,” the 18-year old New Zealand-born actress says
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‘Buster Scruggs’ Star Tim Blake Nelson on How James Franco Taught Him the Secret to Acting
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “There was a coherence and a solidarity in the filmmaking that jarred me out of my complacency,” Nelson says of his work on a Franco-directed film
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How Natalie Portman’s Toxic Diva in ‘Vox Lux’ Hit Home
OscarWrap magazine: “It’s something I’ve been very interested in because of my personal experience of the separation between the public and the private,” Portman says of the film’s theme
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins on Why Showing Vulnerability Is ‘a Sign of Strength’
OscarWrap magazine: “I had to get past some of my own hang-ups about what it means to be vulnerable,” star KiKi Layne says
