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Producer Gigi Pritzker on 'Genius,' her first foray into TV
Gigi Pritzker didn't plunge headlong into the movie business -- her original life plan was to run an NGO in Nepal. An accidental journey to film scho…
8 years, 10 months ago
How the doping doc 'Icarus' morphed into a real life thriller
Bryan Fogel's original plan for his documentary Icarus was to investigate pervasive doping in cycling by becoming a human guinea pig. He recruited ch…
8 years, 10 months ago
'Girls Trip' breakout Tiffany Haddish & director Malcolm D. Lee
Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish is having a star-is-born moment with the raunchy comedy Girls Trip. Haddish says the movie has already changed h…
8 years, 10 months ago
Curtis Armstrong on 'Revenge of the Nerd' and a colorful career
Character actor Curtis Armstrong auditioned for the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds, hoping to play the lead. The filmmakers saw him in the lesser r…
8 years, 10 months ago
Director Matt Reeves on 'War for the Planet of the Apes'
Filmmaker Matt Reeves knew his new film, War for the Planet of the Apes, had to work even without any help from computer-generated effects. He tells …
8 years, 11 months ago
Allen Hughes on the experience of directing 'The Defiant Ones'
Filmmaker Allen Hughes has been friends with music moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine for years. But when he set out to make the new HBO documentary ser…
8 years, 11 months ago
Revisiting Gloria Calderón Kellett on 'One Day at a Time'
When Norman Lear decided to reboot the classic sitcom One Day at a Time, this time with a Latino family, he wanted a writer-producer who could offer …
8 years, 11 months ago
Comedian Hasan Minhaj on telling the story of 'new brown America'
As a Muslim comedian, Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj found he could relate to political reporters when he agreed to the daunting challenge of …
8 years, 11 months ago
How David Mandel & his 'Veep' writers became "mini soothsayers"
For the past two seasons, former Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm writer David Mandel has been showrunning HBO's Veep. And while the show can have e…
9 years ago
Shawn Levy on 'Stranger Things' and redefining his career
Director Shawn Levy built a career on the ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise, but wanted to break out of his box. He set out to produce, and this past y…
9 years ago