The Fabelmans
Gersh Taps Matt Andrée Wiltens as Head of Global Corporate Communications
Gersh has tapped longtime PR executive Matt Andrée Wiltens for the role of senior vp and head of global corporate communications, the agency announced Thursday. The strategic hire comes as the agency begins a global expansion plan following an equity investment by Crestview Partners in 2023. Andrée Wiltens was previously the vp of marketing and […]
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‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Star Seth Rogen on His Big Year of Animation and How ‘Lion King’ Influenced the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Process
This is a massive year for Seth Rogen in the medium of animation. First up for Rogen is Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, in which he plays Donkey Kong, the necktie-wearing gorilla who is resistant to the idea of helping Mario (Chris Pratt) and Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) rescue an imprisoned Luigi (Charlie Day). […]
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Hollywood Flashback: Michelle Williams Brought Marilyn Monroe Back to Life in ‘My Week With Marilyn’
Michelle Williams racked up her fifth Oscar nomination this year, for playing Mitzi Fabelman, a version of Steven Spielberg’s mother in his semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans. A decade ago, bringing screen legend Marilyn Monroe to life in My Week With Marilyn earned Williams her third nod. The 2011 Simon Curtis biopic follows Monroe’s experience in London […]
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‘The Fabelmans’ Producer Says Steven Spielberg Was “More Vulnerable and Raw” Than Ever Before While Making Autobiographical Film
Having spent the past quarter century working for Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger has often visited The Milky Way, the Los Angeles restaurant once run by the director’s mother, Leah Adler (who died in 2017), and her second husband, Bernie Adler. Krieger also knew Spielberg’s late father, Arnold, and knew that Bernie and Arnold had […]
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Steven Spielberg Says He “Burst Into Tears” Seeing Michelle Williams, Paul Dano as His Parents on ‘The Fabelmans’ Set
Steven Spielberg is recalling the first time he saw Michelle Williams and Paul Dano dressed up together as his parents while on set for The Fabelmans. During a sit-down with Colbert in a rare television interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which aired Thursday, the Oscar-winning filmmaker explained how a “routine” first day […]
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How Judd Hirsch Made the Most of Short ‘Fabelmans’ Screen Time, and Nabbed an Oscar Nom to Boot
With more than 50 years of credits, two Tony Awards, a pair of Emmys, a Golden Globe and now his second Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans — more than 40 years since the last one, for 1980’s Ordinary People — Judd Hirsch is one of the most respected and […]
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Where to Stream Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-Nominated Film ‘The Fabelmans’ Online
Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle, Seth Rogen and Judd Hirsch star in the award-winning director's drama, which he previously revealed "is the first coming-of-age-story I've ever told."
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How Oscar-Nominated ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Production Designers Created an Alien Underwater World
Whether it was creating the Metkayina village or a sinking sea vessel on the Pandora moon, production designers Dylan Cole and Ben Procter say their approach to their work on James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water was, philosophically, not unlike that of any live-action movie. “We design sets,” Cole says, adding that the use […]
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Berlin: Steven Spielberg Says He Won’t Tell Young Filmmakers to Get Out of His Office
A reflective Steven Spielberg talked about how he would advise young filmmakers when receiving an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday, and he decided to not follow the lead of his childhood hero John Ford. “I’m not going to say, ‘Get the fuck out of my office.’ That’s a big difference […]
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How Tony Kushner Became the Spielberg Whisperer
It’s fair to say that Universal’s The Fabelmans has been in the works for nearly two decades — ever since screenwriter Tony Kushner first worked with Steven Spielberg on Munich, for which Kushner earned his first Oscar nom in 2006. Seventeen years and three movies later, the pair are nominated for co-writing the original screenplay […]
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Steven Spielberg Collaborators Reveal His Talent for Gift Giving: “He’s Thoughtful in Every Way”
As any one of his close collaborators will tell you, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg has another rare gift for, well, giving gifts. “He’s thoughtful in every way,” says Michelle Williams, the Oscar-nominated star of The Fabelmans, who plays a character inspired by Spielberg’s mother. “I turned 41 on the set and he gave me a […]
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Mental Health Visibility Only Goes So Far at the Oscars
Disability is usually the last identity category most people think of when we talk collectively about bolstering diversity, equity and inclusion across institutions — yet disabled people comprise the most diverse minoritized population in the world. After all, anyone can become disabled at any time. Disability is also often invisible: Think of how many people […]
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