13
May
Based on a novel by Michael Koryta, Those Who Wish Me Dead is the second feature film directed by Taylor Sheridan, the writer and actor whose previous writing and directorial effort was Wind River with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. Sheridan has also penned acclaimed screenplays for both Sicario films and Hell or High Water, in addition to co-creating and writing the TV series Yellowstone. Those Who Wish Me Dead shares several common elements with all of these works, in that it is largely set in a vast rural area of the United States–in this case Montana–and it loosely follows…
18
Aug
Among the many challenges facing the filmmakers behind The One and Only Ivan was this: how do you get across a very important message about animal safety and preservation without making a movie that will scare off family viewers tuning in to watch adorable talking animals on Disney+? That was a question we brought up during an online press conference for the movie, which premieres on the Disney+ this week and stars Angelina Jolie, Bryan Cranston, Sam Rockwell, Helen Mirren, and Danny DeVito, among others. And it was a question that stood tall in Jolie’s mind after she decided to…
