While there wasn’t a whole lot that Matthew Flood Ferguson remembered about notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer before he boarded Netflix’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” as the production designer, he did have a vivid memory of his reaction to first learning about the murderer’s youngest murder victim, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone.
“The one thing I remember is… [that] actually, [Sinthasomphone] escaped, and then the police brought him back to Jeffrey Dahmer; Dahmer lied, said that they were lovers, and they left him there,” Ferguson recollects during a recent webchat with Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And I remember hearing that and just being so horrified by it.”
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“The one thing I remember is… [that] actually, [Sinthasomphone] escaped, and then the police brought him back to Jeffrey Dahmer; Dahmer lied, said that they were lovers, and they left him there,” Ferguson recollects during a recent webchat with Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And I remember hearing that and just being so horrified by it.”
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- 5/2/2023
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
A personal assistant gets a front row seat to both the most glamorous and mundane moments in their employer’s life. There are opportunities for some pretty funny, as well as rather dramatic, moments within that concept. The musical drama The High Note, hitting Premium Video on Demand this week, takes that concept and uses it as a decent jumping off point. There’s a ton of familiarity to the plot, though the cast does put their own unique spins on the material. While the film is nothing to go crazy about, it’s charming, enjoyable, and goes down easy. As the latest high profile flick to skip theaters entirely and premiere in homes, it’s likely to grab a nice sized audience this weekend, arguably bigger than it would have had otherwise. The movie is a musical drama, focused on Maggie (Dakota Johnson), assistant to superstar singer Grace Davis...
- 5/25/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
In the years leading up to “Booksmart,” filmmaker Olivia Wilde had a strong urge to put all that she had gleaned from her years on set as an actress into use when it finally came time for her to direct. When she was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, she admitted that one of the biggest obstacles she faced on her path to making “Booksmart” was her fear over a perceived lack of experience.
“I was so insecure based on my lack of film school training,” said Wilde. “I think that’s what a lot of people say, ‘I would direct, I just don’t know enough about lenses.’ And that’s an excuse, you don’t need an encyclopedic knowledge about the technical aspects of every single element, you need the awareness of what a collaborative experience it is, and the joy is really in hiring those...
“I was so insecure based on my lack of film school training,” said Wilde. “I think that’s what a lot of people say, ‘I would direct, I just don’t know enough about lenses.’ And that’s an excuse, you don’t need an encyclopedic knowledge about the technical aspects of every single element, you need the awareness of what a collaborative experience it is, and the joy is really in hiring those...
- 1/7/2020
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Everything was so glamorous and cool,” sighs “Hustlers” star Constance Wu of the last lucrative night her character spends working in the strip club before the 2008 stock market crash. The camera agrees. In slow motion, it gawks as 300 people collide like electrons. Men fling money, slide cash into spandex and gaze in awe at women who swing around poles, crawl on bar tops, stroke lapels, sit on laps and caress each other on stage. Usher even smacks Jennifer Lopez’s bottom.
“The great challenge was to make sure that this room felt alive and electric,” says writer/director Lorene Scafaria. To stage this scene, she needed to capture “the masculinity of it, and the energy and the exchange.” And to stage this scene safely — to control the chaos — she needed one more person: comfort consultant Jacqueline Frances, there to navigate the flying dollars and hyperactive hands and make sure every...
“The great challenge was to make sure that this room felt alive and electric,” says writer/director Lorene Scafaria. To stage this scene, she needed to capture “the masculinity of it, and the energy and the exchange.” And to stage this scene safely — to control the chaos — she needed one more person: comfort consultant Jacqueline Frances, there to navigate the flying dollars and hyperactive hands and make sure every...
- 12/4/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Bernie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, Victoria Ruesga, Mason Gooding, Skyler Gisondo, Diana Silvers, Molly Gordon, Billy Lourd | Written by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman | Directed by Olivia Wilde
Booksmart is actress Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut and stars Bernie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as Molly and Amy – two best friends who, in the final few days of senior year of High School, begin to break free from their social bonds for one night by painting the town red and showing all their classmates what they’ve been missing.
The first thing you’ll notice is that Booksmart, on every level, does not evoke a first-time directorial debut. Quite the opposite in fact. The level of maturity and filmmaking prowess that inhabits this film is nothing short of mesmerising. Directors on their tenth or even twentieth feature will never touch...
Booksmart is actress Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut and stars Bernie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as Molly and Amy – two best friends who, in the final few days of senior year of High School, begin to break free from their social bonds for one night by painting the town red and showing all their classmates what they’ve been missing.
The first thing you’ll notice is that Booksmart, on every level, does not evoke a first-time directorial debut. Quite the opposite in fact. The level of maturity and filmmaking prowess that inhabits this film is nothing short of mesmerising. Directors on their tenth or even twentieth feature will never touch...
- 10/1/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Director Commentary of the Day: Booksmart, one of the most acclaimed comedies of the year, is now out in theaters. For the New York Times, director Olivia Wilde shares a memorable fantasy musical number from the movie featuring Beanie Feldstein and discusses how she and cinematographer Jason McCormick shot the scene: Filmmaker in Focus: Speaking of directors of new movies,...
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- 5/24/2019
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Stars: Bernie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, Victoria Ruesga, Mason Gooding, Skyler Gisondo, Diana Silvers, Molly Gordon, Billy Lourd | Written by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman | Directed by Olivia Wilde
Booksmart is actress Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut and stars Bernie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as Molly and Amy – two best friends who, in the final few days of senior year of High School, begin to break free from their social bonds for one night by painting the town red and showing all their classmates what they’ve been missing.
The first thing you’ll notice is that Booksmart, on every level, does not evoke a first-time directorial debut. Quite the opposite in fact. The level of maturity and filmmaking prowess that inhabits this film is nothing short of mesmerising. Directors on their tenth or even twentieth feature will never touch...
Booksmart is actress Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut and stars Bernie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as Molly and Amy – two best friends who, in the final few days of senior year of High School, begin to break free from their social bonds for one night by painting the town red and showing all their classmates what they’ve been missing.
The first thing you’ll notice is that Booksmart, on every level, does not evoke a first-time directorial debut. Quite the opposite in fact. The level of maturity and filmmaking prowess that inhabits this film is nothing short of mesmerising. Directors on their tenth or even twentieth feature will never touch...
- 5/24/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stand at attention, ladies and gentlemen. Believe the hype. Actress turned filmmaker Olivia Wilde is here to dominate Hollywood with her directorial debut. Opening this week, after a much heralded debut at SXSW, Booksmart is not just the funniest movie of 2019, it’s the best overall too. Wilde and company make magic with a premise that could have seemed utterly rote. Instead, it’s fresh, lively, and full of spirit that delights from start to finish. The comedy, the relationship building, the character work, it’s all top notch. Seeing is believing here. However wonderful you think this flick is, I can assure you that it’s even better than that. The film is high school coming of age comedy, which admittedly has been done to death. Here, however, it’s given a female spin, while also being imbued with some real intelligence. Throughout high school Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and...
- 5/20/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
South by Southwest seems to be jumping this year. Yesterday saw the debut of Olivia Wilde’s first directorial outing, the teen comedy Booksmart, which has received raves so far. Today, Annapurna dropped a Red Band Trailer for the film, piggybacking off of that SXSW reception. We’ll show you that Trailer at the end of this post, and trust me when I say this will convince you that my colleagues at the festival were not exaggerating. Booksmart appears to be the real deal and not just the announcement of Wilde as an exciting filmmaker, but also potentially a comedy classic in the making. The movie is a comedy about two well behaved high school girls finally behaving badly. The IMDb synopsis says the following about it: “2 academic superstars and best friends who, on the eve of their high school graduation, realize they should have worked less and played more.
- 3/11/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The teen party movie has been done and redone so many times it may as well be an algorithm, so every new movie that rises to the challenge faces heavier expectations. “Booksmart,” yet another buddy movie about one wild night at the end of high school, confronts these odds with a savage wit that never slows down.
Olivia Wilde’s feature directorial debut transforms Katie Silberman’s episodic script into a relentless stream of hilarious antics rooted as much in the authentic chemistry of its two leads as their zany misadventures. The best comedy of its kind since “Superbad,” Wilde’s slick, unpredictable romp can sometimes feel like several movies at once. This riotous, candy-colored celebration of sisterhood is so dense with anarchic developments it often threatens to collapse into itself, but avoids lingering on any gag long enough to let that happen.
For all its rapid-fire entertainment value, “Booksmart...
Olivia Wilde’s feature directorial debut transforms Katie Silberman’s episodic script into a relentless stream of hilarious antics rooted as much in the authentic chemistry of its two leads as their zany misadventures. The best comedy of its kind since “Superbad,” Wilde’s slick, unpredictable romp can sometimes feel like several movies at once. This riotous, candy-colored celebration of sisterhood is so dense with anarchic developments it often threatens to collapse into itself, but avoids lingering on any gag long enough to let that happen.
For all its rapid-fire entertainment value, “Booksmart...
- 3/11/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"Echo Park" is Amanda Marsalis' first feature film. She collaborated with cinematographer Jason McCormick, who was first Ad to Harris Savides on films such as "The Bling Ring," "Restless," "Somewhere," "Greenberg" and "Zodiac." [Editor's Note: Indiewire reached out to filmmakers with films playing at the 20th La Film Festival (June 11-19) to ask them about how they shot their indie, and what advice they had for other filmmakers. We'll be posting their responses throughout the run of the festival. Go Here for the master list.] What camera and lens did you use? Jason says: We used a Red Epic and an old set of spherical lenses from Panavision I really love. What was the most difficult shoot on your movie and how did you pull it off? I would just say always get a permit if at all possible. Jason says: The shoot wasn't really ever difficult in terms of technical challenges. Just logistically working through such a tight schedule with limited resources was really the biggest task....
- 6/18/2014
- by Oliver MacMahon
- Indiewire
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