How ‘Chemical Hearts’ Set Decorator and Production Designer Hid Easter Eggs Within the Drama

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Jason Sherwood, an Emmy Award-winning production designer for Fox’s Rent: Live in 2019 and the youngest person to design the set for the Academy Awards, has signed with CAA.Sherwood’s set design for the 2020 Academy Awards was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor“It’s a reboot, really, because we’re in a whole different world,” says Emmy-nominated Westworld production designer Howard Cummings about season 3, which drops us right inside our world –the human one– outside Delos’ robotic theme park.And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco where the Delos HQ is located on the show, Cummings respectively synthesized both cities’ skylines with Singapore and Valencia,

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineOn The Little Mermaid Live!, production designer Misty Buckley offered up a fresh visual take on a classic fairy tale, aiming to transport viewers into an underwater world, with sets designed for the stage.Celebrating the 30th  anniversary of Disney’s animated film, the live musical special intercut footage from that beloved Oscar winner with fantastical live-action sequences, filmed within a theatre in the round.

Lili Reinhart is opening up about her new romantic drama “Chemical Hearts”, streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland. It follows a guy named Henry (Austin Abrams) as he meets, and falls in love with, the new girl in his school, Grace (Reinhart).

Director Richard Tanne was so moved after reading Krystal Sutherland's 2016 novel Chemical Hearts that he immediately began writing a script to adapt it. "I didn't know really anything about it, except that it moved me enough to finish it before we even had the rights," Tanne tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on Krystal Sutherland’s high school-set novel, Chemical Hearts is a multi-layered study of teen grief marred by ethical ambiguity. Austin Abrams (Euphoria, This Is Us), plays Henry, the blueprint of a male high school protagonist.

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Did you know that teenagers have intense emotions? If this comes as news, you may be in the target demographic for this YA drama, with Lili Reinhart as a high-school senior who has suffered a traumatic loss and Austin Abrams as the love-struck guy who helps her come back from it. For anyone over 20, Chemical Hearts will land as a better-than-average version of an obvious story.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe MPAA has long placed teen movies in a tricky bind: When they reflect the lives of their young target audience a little too relatably, they’re slapped with a rating that excludes the very demographic they’re about. It’s an irony that corners too many films in the genre into a safely sanitized PG-13 space, clean and cute and not entirely real.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDon’t call “Chemical Hearts” a YA romance?True, on paper, the story of a precocious teenager named Henry who becomes emotionally entangled with Grace, a psychologically wounded young woman, sounds very much in the vein of “The Fault in Our Stars” or “Looking for Alaska.” But Richard Tanne, the film’s writer and director, said that what drew him to “Chemical Hearts” was its underlining sense of melancholy and its willingness to deconstruct certain

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineFor Season 2 of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, production designer Kate Bunch expanded the world, and the Staten Island residence of a trio of vampire roommates, doing so for both logistical and creative reasons.As she set out on the comedy’s new season, Bunch knew what she’d have to deal with first—the exterior of the vampire mansion established in Season 1. “Season 2, we lost our exterior location.

Jordan Peele is one of the best filmmakers working today. And even though he only has two features under his belt as a director, that statement is far from hyperbolic.

Taylor Swift is letting her fans in on all of the secrets hidden in her “Cardigan” music video.

Taylor Swift is breaking down all the Easter Eggs from her “Cardigan” music video in a brand new feature with Vevo’s Footnotes.

Taylor Swift is taking fans even further inside her process in a new Vevo «Footnotes» video for her song, «Cardigan,» the first single off of her new, quarantine-produced album, .The video shares facts about Easter eggs Swift placed throughout the video, as well as quotes from the singer herself on her creative process and the intentions behind the album. «I was inspired by the feeling of isolation and how that can be either freeing or terrifying, and how it causes you to reminisce on the past,»

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineBoasting a 15-year career as a set decorator, Matthew Flood Ferguson found his first major TV design job in Netflix miniseries Hollywood, on which he took a deep dive into the minutiae of Hollywood’s Golden Age.Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the starry drama is set in Post-World War II Tinseltown, following a group of actors and filmmakers who will do whatever it takes to realize their dreams.

Mark Wahlberg is strutting his stuff. On Monday, the 49-year-old Oscar nominee took to Twitter on Monday to share a photo from a recent day on the water with his wife, Rhea Durham.