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CASSIUS (to Sam)Power just means a world wherewe’re safe to be ourselves. To looklike we want. Think like we want.Without having to answer to anybodyfor it. After all we put in, don’tblack folks deserve that much? Director Regina King’s feature One Night in Miami… showcases for one night, four iconic Black men are allowed to shed their celebrity personas and simply be themselves. In real life on February 25, 1964 Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and pre-Ali Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) all came together to celebrate Cassius’ world championship defeat of Sonny Liston. Screenwriter Kemp Powers transports us to a motel room on the Black side of town and imagines what it would be like to be a fly on that legendary…

In Lionsgate’s Wander Darkly, Sienna Miller stars as Adrienne, a young mother whose relationship with her partner, Matteo (Diego Luna), is far from perfect. After they’re involved in a car accident, Adrienne’s sense of reality is shattered completely, and Matteo guides her on a time-bending tour of her life in which she goes back to her past and into her potential future. In conversation with THR, Miller and director Tara Miele discuss the origins of the genre-shifting drama, the challenges of its formula-breaking script, and keeping track of reality while making such a cerebral movie. Sienna, what attracted you to the role of Adrienne, and Tara, can you describe what it was like bringing elements of your personal experience to the screen as a writer and director? SIENNA MILLER This…

2003-05 Arrested Development The brothers won an Emmy for directing the pilot episode of the cult-favorite comedy. Separately, they directed 14 episodes during its initial three-season run on Fox. 2006 You, Me and Dupree The Russos’ third feature film starred Owen Wilson as a house guest who outstays his welcome with newlyweds played by Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon. 2009-14 Community The brothers served as EPs on the Dan Harmon-created NBC comedy, for which they directed the pilot. Anthony directed an additional 13 episodes, while Joe helmed 20. 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier The Russos joined the MCU with this sequel, the second Captain America installment in the franchise. 2016 Captain America: Civil War This installment launched the MCU’s third phase, setting up the events that would culminate in…

A few years ago, Max Barbakow found himself amid what felt like an endless Southern California wedding season. These circa-2015 nuptials all had traditional elements as well as of-the-moment millennial trappings like chalkboard signs, Mason jars, flower crowns and sometimes a photo booth thrown in for fun. “Every wedding started to feel the same,” says the filmmaker, who, at that time, had just graduated from AFI. Barbakow even acted as the videographer at a wedding, that of his classmate and now creative collaborator Andy Siara. Recalls Barbakow, “It was the happiest night of his life and I was privy to all that glory. And I just felt very far away from that. We were experiencing it at the opposite ends of the spectrum.” Later on, the experience sparked a thought:…

Best Picture, Musical/Comedy The Prom Based on the Tony-winning Broadway show, this film isn’t for everyone. But as a star-studded musical (featuring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and James Corden, directed by Ryan Murphy and backed by Netflix), you can bet that it’s tailor-made for the HFPA, which has a history of embracing those things. Film Supporting Actress Helena Zengel News of the World The HFPA loves to be the first organization to recognize talented kids like this 12-year-old German actress, who successfully goes toe to toe with a fatherly Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass’ Western, for which she was recently recognized with a profile in The New York Times. Film Drama Actor Tom Holland Cherry He’s just 24, but the Spider-Man star knows how to navigate the awards circuit, having…

CHASING AMY (1997) Affleck’s first leading role is in this Kevin Smith rom-com about a comic book writer who falls for his lesbian friend. HOLLYWOODLAND (2006) Affleck plays actor George Reeves in this Tinseltown thriller about the former Superman’s life and mysterious death. THE COMPANY MEN (2010) In John Wells’ drama, Affleck plays a man whose life is altered by the recession and his company’s subsequent downsizing. ARGO (2012) Affleck directs and stars in this thriller about a CIA mission to rescue U.S. diplomats held hostage in Iran. THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) Affleck plays a CPA with high-functioning autism who cooks the books for criminal organizations in this action-thriller.…

Over her four-decade career, Diane Warren has become synonymous with songwriting, penning nine No. 1s and 32 top 10s. She has also made a career out of writing songs for movies, with her music having been featured in more than 100 motion pictures — culminating in 11 Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nods. This year, she returns to the awards race with multiple contenders for original song: “Io Sì (Seen),” from Netflix’s The Life Ahead; “Free,” from Disney’s The One and Only Ivan; and “I’ll Get There (The Other Side),” from Briarcliff Entertainment’s Emperor. As she seeks her 12th nomination, Warren is also preparing to release her first album this spring with Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions Vol. 1, featuring her songs sung by Celine Dion, John Legend and…

TAHAR RAHIM Kevin [Macdonald], first of all, because I worked with him before [in the director’s 2011 feature The Eagle]. He called me up and told me that he might have a good part for me. I didn’t know anything about Mohamedou’s story. We knew a lot about what happened at [Guantánamo] — but also, not really. I thought it was really interesting to tell the story in this perspective, in a humanistic way. Plus, the [script] was so moving, and I could almost see the movie [in my head]. JODIE FOSTER It was a wonderful script, I have to say. And as time went on, the script got better and better. It became less of a political movie and much more of a human movie. The characters were really…

The journey to write Amazon’s Sound of Metal took well over a decade. But for writer-director Darius Marder and his writing partner and brother, Abraham Marder, that length of time was necessary to tell a “universal story” that explores “something that is pervasively human.” The film follows Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and his girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), who perform as the heavy-metal duo Blackgammon. Their hopes of making it big are sideswiped when Ruben begins to lose his hearing. Upon begrudgingly entering rehab in a rural deaf community led by a Vietnam War veteran and addict named Joe (Paul Raci), Ruben struggles between accepting his hearing loss and raising enough money to pay for cochlear implant surgery so that he can hear again. Darius tells THR that the idea for the…

Among the country’s preeminent dramatists, Suzan-Lori Parks has won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her play Topdog-Underdog and a 2012 Tony for an adaptation of Porgy and Bess. Along the way Parks, 57, has dipped a toe in Hollywood, as far back as 1996’s Girl 6, which she wrote for Spike Lee. In recent years, she’s ramped up her screenwriting efforts — first with Native Son, the 2019 film adaptation of Richard Wright’s landmark 1940 novel, and next with The United States vs. Billie Holiday (out Feb. 26 on Hulu). The biopic, with Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day in the title role, follows the unlikely romance between the jazz giant and Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes), the federal agent assigned to nab her on a drugs charge during a sting operation. Parks…

Universal’s News of the World is the second collaboration between director Paul Greengrass and Oscar-winning Argo editor William Goldenberg following their 2018 feature about a terrorist attack, 22 July. For Goldenberg, a favorite scene in this post-Civil War Western is a nail-biting action sequence that is elevated by the fact that it moves the movie forward by establishing the bond between Tom Hanks’ Captain Kidd and his young charge, Johanna, played by Helena Zengel. The story follows Kidd, who volunteers to return Johanna, who had been kidnapped by the Kiowa, to her family. In a scene early in the film, the pair, who have yet to forge a real rapport, leave a Texas town in a horse-drawn wagon, with three bitter ex-soldiers led by Almay (Michael Angelo Covino) in hot…

Delroy Lindo is a British-born American who has been one of stage and screen’s greatest character actors for 40 years. This year, he has a very real shot of landing a best actor Oscar nomination — and maybe even a win — for his career-best turn as a MAGA hat-wearing, PTSD-afflicted Vietnam vet in Spike Lee’s Netflix film Da 5 Bloods, for which he already has won best actor prizes from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle. Where were you born and raised and what did your folks do for a living? I was born in London. My family is Jamaican. My mom was a nurse and was part of the influx of people from the Caribbean to England in the late ’40s, ’50s…

You first met during a workshop of the Lost in Translation script, yes? RASHIDA JONES Eighteen years ago, right? SOFIA COPPOLA Oh my God. It’s hard to imagine. I don’t even know when Lost in Translation came out, but it was a long time ago. Were you able to build much of a rapport back then? COPPOLA Rashida and some other actors were doing an acting workshop where they would improv scenes out. I don’t know how much of it was actually written at that point. It helped me see the scenes start to come together and was really helpful in finishing the script. And my favorite thing, if Rashida remembers, I had someone babysitting my phone in case Bill Murray called … JONES All day, like for all of…

After wrapping the biggest film franchise of all time with Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, Anthony and Joe Russo wanted to go back home. Set in their native Ohio, Cherry, out Feb. 26 via Apple TV+, is their first non-superpowered project in more than a half-decade. Tom Holland stars as a young Iraq veteran, known in the movie as Cherry, whose battle with opioid addiction leads him to become a serial bank robber. For the personal project, the Russo brothers teamed with their sister, Angela Russo-Otstot, who co-scripted the adaptation of the semiau-tobiographical novel by Nico Walker, who wrote the book while serving a prison sentence for bank robbery. The siblings talked to THR about how social media — for better and worse — influenced the movie and their hopes of appealing…

2020 was a year like no other, so it’s fitting that The Hollywood Reporter’s Composer Roundtable was unlike any that had gone before. On Jan. 8, six of Hollywood’s leading film composers came together via Zoom, across three continents, to talk shop: Ludwig Göransson followed up his Oscarwinning Black Panther score with a thumping, time-shifting soundtrack to Christopher Nolan’s Tenet; Tamar-kali offered up a dissonant, daring soundscape for Shirley that won praise from the likes of Iggy Pop; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross had a busy year with work that included the wall-to-wall 1940s orchestral score for David Fincher’s Mank and the ethereal, synthetic sound of Pixar feature Soul; Terence Blanchard, Spike Lee’s go-to composer, delivered the majestic musical backdrop for the war drama Da 5 Bloods; and Emile Mosseri,…

Writing the script for 1977’s Star Wars, George Lucas drew inspiration from late-romantic symphonies by Richard Wagner and Antonín Dvorák and the ravishing film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood). He wasn’t sure what his space epic would sound like, but he knew he didn’t want it to have one of those modernist, atonal scores that had accompanied sci-fi films since 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (composed by Bernard Herrmann and featuring a theremin). Lucas’ plan was to emulate Stanley Kubrick, who on 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey abandoned a score by Alex North (Spartacus) in favor of classical pieces by Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss II and György Ligeti. Talking about his upcoming film with Steven Spielberg, Lucas said, “I want a classical…