Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker Nicole Kassell On The “Fine Line To Dance” In ‘Watchmen’ Pilot – Crew Call Podcast

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: With the major studios still sorting through COVID-19 safety protocols with the guilds, they haven’t been able to get any feature productions up and running here in Southern California.However, independent productions, such as Invisible Narratives and Catchlight Films’ pandemic thriller Songbird starring KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore, Paul Walter Hauser, Craig Robinson, Peter Stormare, Jenna Ortega, Bradley Whitford and

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor“It’s a reboot, really, because we’re in a whole different world,” says Emmy-nominated Westworld production designer Howard Cummings about season 3, which drops us right inside our world –the human one– outside Delos’ robotic theme park.And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco where the Delos HQ is located on the show, Cummings respectively synthesized both cities’ skylines with Singapore and Valencia,

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAfter putting us inside what felt like the fallout of the Matt Lauer-Brooke Nevils Today Show sex scandal, AppleTV’s The Morning Show leaves us off on an interesting note: Amid Alex Levy’s (Jennifer Aniston) meltdown on-air, her co-anchor Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) reports on a cruise liner which is being held at bay with a virus onboard.That finale episode “The Interview” had landed director Mimi Leder her tenth career Emmy

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIt was a record year for Black performers at the Emmys, who received 34.3% of the 102 acting nominations.

A version of this story about Nicole Kassell first appeared in the Emmy Hot List issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.Not only did Nicole Kassell have the burden of directing the first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen” limited series, she had to introduce a massively-scaled series that would go from Tulsa in 1921 to a moon of Jupiter in an alternative present.“It’s a huge responsibility,” she said. “The success of the show, at that moment, is in your hands.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe journey for just sheer serenity of the pill-addled Rue (Zendaya) through the neons and street-lit shadows of Los Angeles in HBO’s Sam Levinson-created series Euphoria would not be complete without the wall-to-wall score of multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter/producer/composer Labrinth whose sounds fluctuate like the hormones of the show’s young lost souls as they seek some light at the end of their tunnels; a terra firma.Choral

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAs the Black Lives Matter movement took hold of the U.S., Kerry Washington could not help but remember filming “Scandal” while she was pregnant. “It’s impossible to not worry about the Black men in my life out in the world.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIn 2018, Stefani Robinson made Emmy history as the first Black woman to be recognized for multiple nominations in both the Outstanding Comedy category and in Comedy Writing for her solo-written Atlanta episode “Barbershop”.Now, the EP and scribe of FX’s comedy series What We Do in the Shadows, she continues to maintain that record with once again, noms in the Outstanding Comedy Series slot, as well as Comedy Writing for her episode “On the

Over four regular and two holiday-themed seasons of Netflix’s “Nailed It!” contestants have tried to recreate professionally crafted confections with dizzying effect.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWith more Emmy nominations that any other show this year, HBO’s Watchmen has become the one to watch, literally and figuratively.“A lot of people did not watch Watchmen when it actually aired so they are watching it now while they are quarantining or while they are isolating,” Regina King said during Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees all-day event, regarding the nine-episode run of the now almost prophetic Damon Lindelof-created

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineOn Most Dangerous Game, Christoph Waltz embarked on his first American project made for the small screen, earning his first Emmy nomination for the series, which had initially sparked some skepticism on his part.Created by Scott Elder, Josh Harmon and Nick Santora, based on a classic short story by Richard Connell, the action-thriller centers on Dodge (Liam Hemsworth), a Detroit everyman up to his eyeballs in debt, who is looking to secure the financial

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineOn Disney+ short-form series Forky Asks a Question, Bob Peterson seized the chance to work with a beloved new character from the Toy Story franchise, which was introduced to him before the rest of the world, creating stories at the same time for characters that had never gotten much screen time in the Pixar films.A spastic, plastic spork voiced by Tony Hale, who knows nothing of the world, Forky was brought to life by toddler Bonnie in Toy Story 4.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is happy for Brad Pitt and his Emmy nomination for playing thedirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on Saturday Night Live, but he admits his focus is elsewhere.

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a line-up including the directorial debut of Regina King and the latest documentaries from Frederick Wiseman and Werner Herzog.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFive months into the coronavirus pandemic, and Television Academy voters already seem to be over the plethora of remotely produced content created during, and in response to, the new social-distancing health and safety guidelines.

Emmy nominations have finally been announced and the snubs and surprises are all everyone can talk about today.The awards ceremony has already experienced a seismic shift this year, and that’s not solely due to Game of Thrones’ absence from the nominations list for the first time in what seems like a century.Earlier this year, the Television Academy announced that ‘unprecedented challenges’ resulted in the decision to delay the eligibility and voting deadline for the Emmys amid the Coronavirus

awards season feeling like a thing of the past - exaggerated by the Coronavirus lockdown, which makes it seem like a live event hasn't taken place in a decade - the Emmy nominations for 2020 have been announced.Saturday Night Live's Leslie Jones hosted the nominations reveal on Tuesday, with the help of Laverne Cox, Josh Gaad and Tatiana Maslany.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineFollowing a remarkable morning for Watchmen—with 26 Emmy nominations for the HBO limited series—creator Damon Lindelof and star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are opening up about creative pursuits to come.A first-time Emmy nominee, recognized for his turn as stay-at-home dad Cal Abar and the omnipotent Doctor Manhattan, Abdul-Mateen has the biggest years of his career coming up, with starring roles in Candyman, Aquaman 2, The Matrix 4 and Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial

, the documentary that true-crime lovers became obsessed with amid the coronavirus pandemic, is now Emmy-nominated!The Netflix docuseries about the life of now-imprisoned zookeeper Joe Exotic (real name: Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage) and his rivalry with big cat conservationist Carole Baskin received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations on Tuesday.