Chris Lee
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Everything Everywhere All at Once Didn’t Just Win the Oscars, It Dominated Them
The A24 movie Everything Everywhere All At Once didn’t just win Oscars, it dominated them. Inside the Academy Awards after-party, the industry took stock of the a24 movie’s historic trophy sweep, including Best Picture. → Read More
‘This Was The Fast & the Furious — But One of the Cars Is a Bear’
‘Cocaine Bear’ director Elizabeth Banks breaks down the mostly-improvised ambulance chase scene, starring Margo Martindale, Scott Seis, and Kahyun Kim. → Read More
Marvel VFX Workers on ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’
Three VFX workers break down why Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania looks the way it does. → Read More
Netflix Draws First Blood at Sundance With a Deal for Run Rabbit Run
For some Hollywood watchers, whom Run Rabbit Run sold to and when carries unmistakable symbolic import. → Read More
Sundance’s Identity Crisis Might Be a Good Thing for Hollywood
With streamers like Netflix tightening their purse strings amid a looming writers strike, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s first in-person edition in two years is full of uncertainty. → Read More
22 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Sundance Festival 2023
Sundance is back in Park City for the first time in three years, and the programming slate is full of fittingly buzzy fare. From Cat Person (with Cousin Greg) to the new Nicole Holofcener to an Ottessa Moshfegh-Anne Hathaway collaboration and more. → Read More
Wakanda Forever Closes Out Marvel’s Phase 4 With a Record November Opening
The Black Panther sequel ‘Wakanda Forever’ closes out Marvel’s Phase 4 with a record November opening, taking in $180 million in ticket sales in its first weekend. → Read More
No One in Hollywood Wanted to Make Barbarian
Director Zach Cregger pitched his passion project ‘Barbarian,’ co-starring Bill Skarsgard and Justin Long, to nearly every studio in Hollywood, including A24 and Neon. → Read More
Don’t Worry, Darling, It’s Judgment Day
Will all the rubbernecking directed at 2022’s hottest movie mess translate into ticket sales? → Read More
Channeling David Bowie’s Light into Moonage Daydream
A near-death experience turned David Bowie’s musings on art, alienation and existence into a “resurrection” for ‘Moonage Daydream’ director Brett Morgen. → Read More
The Summer of Almost No Flops
With ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ nearing $700 million at the box office, summer 2022 is going down as the one when, in the absence of a normal slate of studio fare, nearly every major release delivered profits at the box office. → Read More
Musk and Trump and a Little Steve Jobs
Mark Fergus had a big part in shaping Tony Stark, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s foundational superhero. According to Fergus, the character was inspired by an amalgam of real people like Donald Trump and Steve Jobs — but none so much as Elon Musk. → Read More
Everything We Know About the Future of Warner Bros. Discovery
HBO Max and the DC Extended Universe are in for some serious revamping, but the move to shelve ‘Batgirl’ imperils Warner Bros.’ already shaky relationship with top-tier directors. → Read More
I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel
What’s it like to work as a visual-effects artist for the MCU? “I’ve had co-workers sit next to me, break down, and start crying.” → Read More
The 5 Biggest Storylines to Follow at This Year’s San Diego Comic-Con
Several major Hollywood studios that sat out the convention even before the mask era (including Marvel) are headed back down Highway 5 to San Diego. → Read More
Sony Pictures Is Eating Hollywood’s Lunch
The ‘Spider-Man’ studio never launched a streaming service, but it’s breaking box-office records and earning the envy of back-lot competition anyway with franchise movies and eyes toward original hits. → Read More
Top Gun: Maverick Has One More Record to Break
If ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ stays in theaters into the fall, there is a strong chance the sequel could topple the $659 million domestic box-office record long held by another Paramount movie. → Read More
What Will Be the Biggest Movie of the Summer?
Vulture bets on five films that will break through the hottest months of 2022, in whatever ways they can. → Read More
Top Gun: Maverick Is Making Grown Men Cry at CinemaCon
The Tom Cruise–starring sequel ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ played to cheers (and, surprisingly, tears) at the 2022 CinemaCon, where director Joseph Kosinski and co-star Glen Powell screened the film ahead of its May debut. → Read More
Rewriting the Behind-the-Scenes Story of Iron Man 2
The sequel was made before the MCU streamlined its operations, when ad-libbing, “writing gyrations,” and Elon Musk cameos were okay. → Read More