‘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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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 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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TheWrap Lands 15 Nominations for LA Press Club’s Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
TheWrap was nominated as best entertainment website
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The Scene at ShortList 2018: TheWrap’s 7th Annual Short Film Festival (Photos)
Filmmakers and filmgoers gathered at AMC Century City to celebrate this year’s slate of award-winning shorts
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‘Our New President’ Brings Huge Dose of Fake News to Sundance
Sundance 2018: Documentary is built around Russian propaganda from the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
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Who Needs Dragons? How HBO Can Still Dominate Emmys Without ‘Game of Thrones’
EmmyWrap magazine: With its biggest Emmy show ineligible this year, the network must look to movies and limited series to pick up the slack
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TheWrap Lands 13 Noms for National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
L.A. Press Club will announce winners at Dec. 4 ceremony
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Cannes Report, Day 4: Steven Spielberg’s ‘The BFG’ Gets Mixed Reviews, Lily-Rose Depp Delights
Adaptation of the children’s classic divides critics despite splashy presence from superstar director
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Prince: A Wild, Weird ‘Dirty Mind’ Who Became a Music Legend
The diminutive star, who died Thursday at age 57, could be a soul man or a funk demon or a fierce rocker
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VFX Oscar Nominees Reveal Biggest Challenges on ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Ex Machina,’ ‘The Martian’ (Video)
Visual artists spill secrets in new episode of “Eyes & Ears on the Oscars” in partnership with Dolby
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Oscar Nominees Reveal Secrets About ‘Revenant’ Bear, Hidden Cat in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (Video)
Four of this year’s contenders for sound mixing discuss their work in new edition of “Eyes & Ears on the Oscars” in partnership with Dolby
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‘A War’ Director Talks Shooting Combat on Battlefield and in Courtroom
TheWrap Screening Series: Tobias Lindholm discusses cheating his actors of the last five pages of the script to preserve the surprise
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Academy Acting Branch Is 87 Percent White, NY Times Study Finds
The paper also explains just how challenging it will be to diversify membership in wake of #OscarsSoWhite controversy
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‘Brand New Testament’ Cast Talk God, Catherine Deneuve and Gorilla Suits
TheWrap’s Screening Series: Belgium’s submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar is an “Amelie”-like fantasy comedy
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‘Felix and Meira’ Director on Creating a Hasidic Love Triangle as a Religious Outsider
TheWrap Screening Series: “I’m a Catholic, I don’t know anything about Judaism,” filmmaker Maxime Giroux says of the Academy’s foreign-language film entry for Canada
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Tesla’s Elon Musk Presses for Action on Climate Change at ‘Racing Extinction’ Screening (Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: “The rules of the game fundamentally favor bad behavior,” Tesla founder says, joining documentary director Louie Psihoyos and composer J. Ralph
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Home Care’ Director Joins Oscar Race With ‘Anti-Czech Movie’
First-timer Slávek Horák, himself a Czech, wants to infuse the foreign film race with the spirit of the nation’s 1960s New Wave
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Chris Rock’s Hiring: If the Voters Won’t Address Oscars’ Diversity Woes, the Academy Will
Academy brass and show producers can’t change the number of African-American nominees, but they hired a host likely to talk about it
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Chris Rock Was Funniest Oscar Host Ever, If You Were at His Rehearsals
When this year’s host first did the gig in 2005, his off-camera remarks were rude and hilarious
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Director Amy Berg on Her 7-Year Struggle to Make a Movie About Janis Joplin (Video)
Toronto 2015: The filmmaker behind “Janis: Little Girl Blue” sits down with TheWrap’s Steve Pond to discuss the making of her new documentary
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15 Secrets Revealed About Cameron Crowe’s ‘Almost Famous’ on Its 15th Anniversary
TheWrap’s Steve Pond recalls how he and Crowe both covered the rock ‘n’ roll scene in the 1970s, an era the filmmaker depicted in his 2000 Oscar winner
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Toronto: Ben Foster on Playing Lance Armstrong in ‘The Program': ‘He’s a Rare Breed’ (Video)
The actor sits down with TheWrap’s Steve Pond to discuss the biopic of the disgraced cyclist
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Emmy Wrap: ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes on Why He’s Ending the Show Before the Nazis
“There have been wonderful films about them, but I don’t think I’m the right guy to write them,” the British writer tells TheWrap
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Emmy Wrap Cover Story: ‘American Crime’ Creator on Race, Violence and Justice in Troubled Times (Video)
“We’re putting ourselves in the public square,” John Ridley tells TheWrap
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9 Things Scene and Heard Inside Steve Martin’s AFI Life Achievement
Everybody loves Martin Short, T. J. Miller comes ready for musical chairs, and the two comics in particular made “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels laugh the hardest
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Sony Classics Buys Holocaust Drama ‘Son of Saul’ at Cannes Festival
The film is in competition and a festival favorite
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Cannes Report, Day 4: Amy Winehouse Doc Is Beautiful Bummer, ‘Hunger Games’ Duo Reteam for Western
Co-stars of the popular franchise Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson will ride again in “By Way of Helena,” addict soul singer film pulling heart strings
