“Pirates of the Caribbean” gets a new composer, Geoff Zanelli, with the fifth installment of the franchise, “Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Variety‘s Andrew Barker takes you behind the scenes at a scoring session with Zanelli, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and conductor Nick Glennie-Smith to reveal how the beloved “Pirates” sound is getting an update for 2017.
Alfonso Cuarón, in addition to serving as writer, director, and producer, was also the DP on best picture nominee “Roma.” For Variety‘s Artisans series, he explained why he knew the movie couldn’t be “a nostalgic, old-school black and white.”
As part of Variety’s Artisans series, “First Man” director Damien Chazelle; re-recording mixer, sound designer, and supervising sound editor Ai-Ling Lee; and supervising sound editor Mildred Iatrou Morgan discussed creating the sound of the Neil Armstrong biopic, which stars Ryan Gosling as the first man to set foot on the moon. Lee explained that she was [...]
Mary Poppins’ entrance costume — a sleek coat with orange polka-dot lining — embodies the all-important elegance of the iconic English character: a powerful blue coloring, an eccentric patterned interior, and, according to costume designer Sandy Powell, a little bit of sexiness, too. “She had to be elegant, and [Rob Marshall] wanted chic … he [...]
One of Motown’s biggest legends, Smokey Robinson, hit back at criticism over not Jennifer Lopez’s Motown tribute at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
Padma Lakshmi reclaims the many names of the uterus for women empowerment at the Power of Women event.
Viola Davis’ full Power of Women speech praised the work of #MeToo founder Tarana Burke.
