Singer Olivia Rodrigo featured in WIRED‘s Autocomplete Interview in a new video. In it, she talks about how she failed her driving test on her first attempt and her friendship with Jenna Ortega, along with other topics.
26.08.2023 - 15:25 / variety.com
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor What does it take for the Emmy-nominated crew behind “Saturday Night Live” to build sets from start to finish? Thirty-six hours, plus “dedication and expertise,” according to production designer Andrea Purcigliotti. By the time Purcigliotti and fellow production designers Leo Yoshimura and Keith Raywood receive their script, it’s often late on a Wednesday night after the cast has gone through a table read. Then it’s off to the races.
The sets need to be ready for shooting by 8 a.m. on Friday. For a spoof on the famous levitation scene in “The Exorcist,” the team had to figure out how to get Jenna Ortega to rise from a bed without special effects.
The solution was hydraulics, but they had little time to properly outfit the bed. “We built the lift with hydraulic motors that went under the bed and lifted up a small portion,” says Yoshimura. “So, it’s a little platform for her to be laying on.” They sent it to a studio, where it was built and then brought in for the Friday run-through.
It was the first time they had seen the set, and Raywood says, “We weren’t really aware of whether anything was going to work.” Fortunately, it did. As for Kenan Thompson, whose head spins in the scene, that was done via special effects. A life-size puppet of the comedian was made.
The moment when his head spins around was pre-taped and added in after the fact. The show’s take on the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol,” with Steve Martin and Martin Short, was an idea that had been floating around as a sketch for several seasons, but script complexities and tight turn-around times meant it never quite took off. However, Purcigliotti had created an elaborate 3D model of a Dickensian market square two years
.Singer Olivia Rodrigo featured in WIRED‘s Autocomplete Interview in a new video. In it, she talks about how she failed her driving test on her first attempt and her friendship with Jenna Ortega, along with other topics.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Disney’s Hulu has jumped on the trend of releasing the most-popular trending titles on its service — but it’s going five more than the usual top 10. Hulu on Thursday launched “Top 15 Today,” a collection of trending movies and TV series that will be updated daily. Topping the first list are Hulu original series “Only Murders in the Building,” starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short, followed by FX’s “Welcome to Wrexham” and Hulu’s “The Other Black Girl.” Three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, starring Johnny Depp, are on today’s list: the first installment, “The Curse of the Black Pearl”; “Dead Man’s Chest”; and “At World’s End.” (See full list below.) Hulu has long offered recommendations.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Before the season three scripts for Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” had even been completed, showrunners Mimi Leder and Charlotte Stoudt told production designer Nelson Coates they wanted to start the show with a bang. “They said we’re doing all these environments. We’re going to space and it’s going to be right up front.” And so the third season of the series blasts off – literally.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tim Burton and Micheal Keaton’s “Beetlejuice 2” only had a day and a half left of filming when the SAG-AFTRA strike shut production down indefinitely. The Warner Bros.’-backed production started filming in May in London amid the WGA strike. “I feel grateful we got what we got,” Burton told The Independent in a recent interview.
In case you haven’t heard, bobs are big beauty news at the moment. We’ve seen no end of celebrities swap their long lengths for shorter styles recently, from Emma Stone and Vogue Williams to Louise Redknapp and Michelle Keegan. And one style in particular is trending at the moment – the ‘butterfly bob’.
EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting an exclusive first look at Paramount+’s Finestkind from Oscar winner Brian Helgeland, starring Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster and Toby Wallace, ahead of its premiere Friday at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is set for a November premiere exclusively on Paramount+.
Gossip-mongering social media account Deuxmoi recently posted an item claiming that Jenna Ortega and Johnny Depp had been spotted together, sparking a rumour the two were dating, or possibly working together on Tim Burton’s upcoming “Beetlejuice” sequel.
Gossip-mongering social media account Deuxmoi recently posted an item claiming that Jenna Ortega and Johnny Depp had been spotted together, sparking a rumour the two were dating, or possibly working together on Tim Burton’s upcoming “Beetlejuice” sequel.
Are Johnny Depp and Jenna Ortega dating???
Jenna Ortega and Johnny Depp would like you to know that they are not dating, despite the rumors suggesting otherwise.
Christopher Vourlias The question of whether Hollywood stars will light up the Lido this week has roiled the film industry in the run-up to the Venice Film Festival. “Poor Things” lead actress Emma Stone was among the marquee names that were holding out for a SAG-AFTRA exemption allowing her to promote the Frankenstein-inspired period film from Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite”), which bowed in competition Friday to a lengthy standing ovation and rave reviews.
Wednesday star Jenna Ortega has shot down the “ridiculous” rumour that she’s dating Johnny Depp.The rumours about the two actors started circulating when celebrity gossip account Deuxmoi claimed Depp and Ortega were reportedly seen together, possibly working on Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice 2.With the rumour generating plenty of attention and discussion on social media, Ortega recently took to Instagram to dispel the false claim.“This is so ridiculous I can’t even laugh,” she wrote. “I have never met or worked with Johnny Depp in my life. Please stop spreading lies and leave us alone.”A representative for Depp also dismissed the dating rumours, as all as the claim that he might have a role opposite Ortega in Beetlejuice 2.A statement from Depp’s representative read: “Mr.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” created over 240 unique characters who feature across the six different universes in the film, but Daniel Kaluuya‘s Hobart “Hobie” Brown (aka Spider-Punk) was one of the last characters production designer Patrick O’Keefe and head of character Alan Hawkins dove into. Speaking with Variety, Hawkins says the character went through a lot of design tests. “Those tests were educational in that they didn’t work, and we learned about how not to do them.” After that, the character was put on the shelf while the animators refined his design.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Visual effects crews at Walt Disney Studios have taken a significant step to unionize after filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an election to unionize. A supermajority (over 80%) of the 18 in-house VFX crew members at Walt Disney Pictures signed authorization cards signaling their desire to unionize. The historical move is the second time in history that VFX professionals have joined together to demand the same protections and rights as their colleagues.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Episode 7 of “The Real Housewives of New York City” Season 14 now streaming on Peacock TV and airing on Bravo TV. Jessel Taank of “The Real Housewives of New York City” is calmly waiting in the reception area of PMC’s New York headquarters Accompanying her is her mother, Nilam, who is visiting from London, and Taank’s patience stands in contrast to how the internet has painted her. Through seven episodes of the new season, among the show’s ardent fandom, she’s the “Real Housewives” cast member audiences love to hate, and has been called both “entitled” and a “princess.” Dressed in an oversized, immaculately crisp white button-down that doubles as a dress by Jill Sander, daringly, Taank sips a hot coffee.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor How does one make a documentary about David Bowie, a prolific musician who frequently reinvented himself as a performer, sound great? That was the challenge facing the Emmy-nominated sound crew behind Brett Morgen’s “Moonage Daydream.” “He’s a unique artistic genius,” points out re-recording mixer David Giammarco. “How do you do something like we’ve never seen before?” Giammarco worked with fellow nominee Paul Massey and Morgen, writer-director-editor-producer on the documentary, to navigate their way through telling Bowie’s story. Morgen’s vision was not to use talking heads or a narrator.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor David Klotz landed three Emmy nominations for his work as a sound editor across very different shows. Klotz worked on “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” “House of the Dragon” and “Stranger Things.” His biggest challenge was tackling the insertion of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” in “Stranger Things.” With Netflix’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” the dark and twisted story of the serial killer, veteran gloom-rocker Nick Cave and his frequent collaborator Warren Ellis worked on the score. Klotz took a different approach since the duo had scored the pilot and wrote an entire library of music.
The actors’ strike is still ongoing, but there are several projects that have received waivers or are exempt from the strike rules.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Subtle details in costume design, hairstyling and even production design showed the growth and progression of Selena Gomez’s Mabel in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” Season 2 begins where the first left off — Mabel is the prime suspect after being found by the side of the dead body of Bunny, who lives in the same building as Mabel, Oliver (Martin Short) and Charles (Steve Martin). When audiences were first introduced to Mabel in Season 1, she’s someone who is trying to protect herself. Costume designer Dana Covarrubias says, “I put her in chunky- soled boots and big puffy coats and jackets that create this sense of a protective armor around her.” As the season progresses and she begins to connect with Oliver and Charles, she softens up.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Shaquille O’Neal is one of the biggest basketball stars in the world, but there’s another side to him: DJ Diesel. As Diesel, he’s been playing the DJ circuit around the world for a few years, and he’s just released his debut album, “Gorilla Warfare.” His sound is best described as a mix of EDM, rock and hip-hop, and “Warfare” features 10 tracks with fellow DJ collaborators, including Jessica Audiffred, Crackdat aka Christian Smith, Hairitage, CELO, VRG & Blackway, Soltan, Kompany, TRXGGX, Rated R and Chassi & Kozmoz. In a Zoom conversation with Variety, Diesel says, “These are some of my favorites, and I wanted to use my platform to showcase other people to the world and help these young kids out.” Diesel says that while all of his collaborators were inspirational, Audiffred, who worked with him on “No Fear,” especially impressed him.