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Editor’s note: We are experiencing an issue with the video for this post and will update once it is fixed. “I see The Last of Us as a big story, like a Shakespearean play,” says composer Gustavo Santaolalla. “I think The Last of Us is a fantastic story.” Based on the 2013 video game of the same…

“Grease is the thing that really made me want to dance,” says choreographer Jamal Sims, “seeing John Travolta dance was like magic for me.” Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies is a spinoff prequel to the 1978 musical Grease. Four years before the original film's events, the series follows the…

“The biggest key with mysteries,” says Poker Face cinematographer Jaron Presant, “is you want to disseminate the information at the right time, but also play with the audience.” Poker Face, created by Rian Johnson, follows Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) as she travels the country on the run. After her…

“The deepest inspiration comes from the actual Charles Addams cartoon, and the tonality of them," says costume designer Colleen Atwood of her work on Netflix’s Wednesday. "But we really wanted, especially Wednesday [because] she wasn't a child anymore… to be something that was her own person, to sort of…

“Cinema was always a passion for me,” says composer Alexandre Desplat. “I was very lucky to have a friend who had directed a short movie and he asked me if I could write the score… and it became my demo tape and opened to me many, many doors.” Having worked with director Guillermo del Toro before on many…

Film editor Paul Rogers began to edit films as a fun way to get out of doing schoolwork. Instead of doing a final project, Rogers and his friend would shoot a movie, which opened up a whole new career path for him. "I loved it and I had never felt that engaged and excited about anything creatively," he…

“I loved filmmaking and I loved doing really hyper-realistic illustrations from a really young age,” says production designer Ethan Tobman. “I was enthralled by painting and sculpture, equally to film, and I never considered that the two could intersect as a profession.” Mark Mylod’s The Menu takes…

“When I first interviewed with Steven [Spielberg] for the job of editor on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, we found out we were both scouts, eagle scouts, and here we are 45 years later, making a film about a boy scout who loves the movies,” says editor Michael Kahn. The Fabelmans takes a…

“When you want to portray inside someone’s mind when they’re struggling, its quite hard,” says production designer Mark Tildesley. “It was very helpful to have Sam [Mendes] around to help that come to fruition.” Directed by Sam Mendes, Empire of Light takes place at a cinema on the South Coast of…

For Amsterdam, director David O. Russell needed a hair and makeup team ready to take on the challenge of shooting during Covid. When she was initially busy with another project, Lori McCoy-Bell, a longtime collaborator with Russell, called in Adruitha Lee to help out with the hair. As Covid hit and she…

“Rian [Johnson] and I met when we were 18, 19 years old,” says cinematographer Steve Yedlin. “We started making films then, and we’ve been doing it together ever since, informing each other's style and methodology.” Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story marks the return of Daniel Craig as…

“My journey is very serendipitous,” says costume designer Marci Rodgers. “I came out of the fitting room, thinking out loud and I said, ‘You know, I’m gonna design a movie on Emmett Till…’ and six years later Chinonye approached me and asked me to look at the script.” Chinoye Chukwu brings together…