No Intentional Anachronisms Allowed: Production Designers on the Importance of Period Accuracy in ‘Dickinson,’ ‘Lovecraft Country,’ More

The picture of Las Vegas at the forefront of a person’s mind is filled with casinos and luxury hotels, but for HBO Max’s Hacks, production designer Jonathan Carlos wanted to show a more varied image of what Las Vegas is like. He was in charge of recreating the style and feeling of different parts of Las Vegas while shooting in California.

When it came to mounting Disney+/Marvel’s WandaVision which thrusts Avengers protags Wanda Maximoff and Vision into various sitcoms from Bewitched to Malcolm in the Middle, director Matt Shakman and production designer Mark Worthington took the advice of comedy legend Dick Van Dyke and ran parts of the production “like a play.”

Jurnee Smollett has earned some of the best notices of her career for Lovecraft Country, HBO’s hit supernatural limited series. She stars as Letitia ‘Leti’ Lewis, a young African-American woman drawn into an occult odyssey through the segregated and virulently racist America of the 1950s.

Bill Maher had some advice for Lin-Manuel Miranda on Friday.

Ricky Martin has shared a series of gorgeous new pictures with husband Jwan Yosef to celebrate Pride month.The superstar singer posed for the cover of Cap 74024 magazine with Jwan, and has posted the images on his Instagram.

official unveiling and dedication of the Association of Perth Veterans’ war memorial will take place in Perth city centre on Saturday, June 26 - Armed Forces Day. The 11am ceremony will also see the raising of the Armed Forces Flag at the memorial which has been erected in St John Street, at the rear of historic St John’s Kirk, which houses the city’s war memorial to those lost in conflicts during two world wars.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJonathan Majors had just come from a boxing session with his trainer when he joined me for an interview for Tuesday’s episode of “Just for Variety.”I couldn’t help but wonder if the workout was to prepare him for his upcoming work in the next “Ant-Man” movie or the third “Creed” to be directed by Michael B. Jordan.

Karol G is ready to hit the road again. On Monday June 14th the global superstar announced her highly anticipated return to the stage with her upcoming, “Bichota Tour.” The singer made the announcement on social media with an amazing video aboard “Flight KG0516” and in the bathtub.

Jean Smart on the HBO Max series, is no Liberace. She loves antiques and excess, but it’s all pretty tasteful in its own very Deborah Vance way, with some smashing contemporary art pieces.When it came to envisioning the comic’s mansion, production designer Jon Carlos leaned toward the type of luxe glamour seen in interiors by L.A.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“In the Heights” production designer Nelson Coates had an important task from Lin-Manuel Miranda: The bodegas for the film adaptation of the stage show needed to be located east of Broadway, “because that was a historic Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban neighborhood.”Anything west of that would be predominantly Irish, Russian or Jewish. The last thing director Jon M.

Diedre Johnson It’s a mashup that includes fantasy, science fiction, history, horror, and a love story — but there’s more.“‘Lovecraft Country’ is a [story] about a family,” says series star Jonathan Majors, “a Black family making their way through a world full of obstacles … and [answers] the question of what it means to be individuals, what it means to be alive, and what it means to move you and your people forward.”Set in the 1950s, the 10-episode series was created by writer-producer Misha

Transitioning to teens! Melissa Joan Hart and Soleil Moon Frye have their work cut out for them raising teenagers.

As production designer of the Hulu series PEN15, Grace Alie didn’t need to go far for research and inspiration. Along with a crew that also grew up in the early 2000s, Alie was able to work off their personal experiences to recreate their childhoods.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorA look at the world building through the eyes of production designers.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVBack when Steven Canals was working on the first season of “Pose,” he and Misha Green had a conversation at a bar about the importance of using their voices as storytellers to make material for their communities.“Pose,” now wrapping up its third and final season, is an example of that, as Canals centered LGBTQIA+ characters of color in a narrative about the complexities of living amid the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1990s New York City.

EXCLUSIVE: Mayans M.C. star JD Pardo is joining Chris Pratt in Amazon’s conspiracy-thriller series The Terminal List, based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel, in a key recurring role.

Hey, Hollywooders! For this week’s Good in the ‘Wood Wednesday, we’re celebrating Ricky Martin as People’s cover star for their second annual Pride Issue.The Puerto Rican singer and actor, known as the “King of Latin Pop,” has been in the music scene for over 20 years.

Over the past year, production designers needed to get creative in how they approach their work on films or television shows. For Solos, that involved production designer Ruth Ammon adapting to a completely virtual art department from home. “We were building 3D designs,” Ammon says, “and we actually had a virtual reality designer who would take our designs and turn them into proper virtual reality sets.”

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Cruella” production designer Fiona Crombie worked on more than 100 sets to create the multi-layered vintage look of 1970s London, giving lots of thought to young Cruella’s den.Crombie looked at old photos of abandoned locks that ran along the Thames River in London for her main inspiration for young Estella’s/Cruella’s (Emma Stone) home and lair, where she and her henchmen Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser plot out their scams.In contrast, the Baroness’ warehouse is