Tag: Munich

  • Cool Stuff: Spielberg: The First Ten Years Book Digs Into The Director’s Earliest Blockbusters

    Cool Stuff: Spielberg: The First Ten Years Book Digs Into The Director’s Earliest Blockbusters

    We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.No one can deny that Steven Spielberg is one of the most renowned and influential director’s in cinema history. From game-changing blockbusters like “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park” to devastating prestige Oscar-winning films like “Schindler’s List” and “Munich,” Spielberg is a master storyteller who has been turning…

  • With ‘The Fabelmans,’ Production Designer Rick Carter Completed a Visual Journey with Steven Spielberg

    With ‘The Fabelmans,’ Production Designer Rick Carter Completed a Visual Journey with Steven Spielberg

    Although Oscar-winning production designer Rick Carter has worked closely with directors Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron (“Avatar”), and J.J. Abrams (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “The Rise of Skywalker”), his greatest collaboration spans 11 films with Steven Spielberg, from “Jurassic Park” to “The Fabelmans.”Indeed, Spielberg brings out the best in Carter, who enjoys exploring characters…

  • ‘The Fabelmans’ Screenwriter Tony Kushner on Adapting Steven Spielberg’s Real Life: ‘I Freaked Out’

    ‘The Fabelmans’ Screenwriter Tony Kushner on Adapting Steven Spielberg’s Real Life: ‘I Freaked Out’

    Over his nearly 50 years of filmmaking, Steven Spielberg has walked down too many red carpets to count.From “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Bridge of Spies,” the legendary director’s PR-heavy vocation requires he trade in his characteristic baseball cap for a snappy suit just a few nights per year to strut his stuff in…

  • UK-Ireland cinema release calendar: latest updates for 2022

    UK-Ireland cinema release calendar: latest updates for 2022

    Keep track of when films are coming out in the territory.Screen is listing the release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here.Screen also has an awards season calendar for 2022, here.JanuaryJanuary 1Licorice Pizza…

  • Dune Screenwriter Eric Roth Talks About His Scrapped Opening To The Movie

    Dune Screenwriter Eric Roth Talks About His Scrapped Opening To The Movie

    Adapting Frank Herbert’s sprawling sci-fi saga, “Dune,” is nothing short of a Herculean task, and Denis Villeneuve succeeded in doing the same with the help of screenwriter Eric Roth. Roth is a major player in the screenwriting arena, having adapted numerous books for the screen, including “Forrest Gump,” “The Insider,” and “Munich.” In a recent…

  • David Lynch Joins Cast of Steven Spielberg’s Family Film ‘The Fabelmans’

    David Lynch Joins Cast of Steven Spielberg’s Family Film ‘The Fabelmans’

    Some fun casting news for a Friday afternoon. Two directors will be on the set of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming family drama, “The Fabelmans,” but only one of them will be behind it. Variety reveals that surrealist filmmaker David Lynch has joined the cast that already includes Michelle Williams Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Gabriel Labelle, and…

  • Seth Rogen to Play Steven Spielberg’s Uncle in Film Based on Director’s Childhood

    Seth Rogen to Play Steven Spielberg’s Uncle in Film Based on Director’s Childhood

    Seth Rogen has joined Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film based on his childhood in Arizona, Variety has confirmed.Rogen will take on the role of Spielberg’s favorite uncle in the untitled film. As previously reported, Michelle Williams is in talks to play a major part as well.The search is underway to find young actors of multiple ages…

  • Film Review: ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’

    Film Review: ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’

    “There’s so much to see and do in Arous,” read the brochure for a Sudanese vacation spot where visitors could go scuba diving amid reefs “made famous by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Hans Hass.” Never mind that Sudan was in a state of civil war and no place for tourists in the early 1980s. European tourists…

  • With ‘War of the Worlds’ and ‘Munich’, Steven Spielberg Confronted the War on Terror

    With ‘War of the Worlds’ and ‘Munich’, Steven Spielberg Confronted the War on Terror

    (Welcome to 21st Century Spielberg, an ongoing column that examines the challenging, sometimes misunderstood 21st century filmography of one of our greatest living filmmakers, Steven Spielberg. In this edition: War of the Worlds and Munich.) In 1993, Steven Spielberg reached the pinnacle of his career. The perfect encapsulation of his considerable talents. In June of…

  • Toronto Film Review: ‘Hotel Mumbai’

    Toronto Film Review: ‘Hotel Mumbai’

    Who’s to blame for popularizing reenactments of real-life terrorist attacks? Should we point the finger at “United 93” director Paul Greengrass, or maybe Steven Spielberg’s morally gray “Munich” a year earlier? The entire genre traces back to Gillo Pontecorvo’s game-changing “The Battle of Algiers” in 1966, which challenged our ideas of on-screen realism by posing…