Wrap Magazine
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‘Queen’s Gambit’: How Chess Novice Anya Taylor-Joy Nailed Those Tournament Scenes
TheWrap Magazine: “I’ve never had an experience where I was so into a character,” Taylor-Joy says
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How ‘Lovecraft Country’ Star Jonathan Majors Accepted Atticus’ Fate
TheWrap magazine: “He is now the edge of the spear for his family and for the next chapter of their legacy,” HBO star says
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Ryan Murphy on ‘The Prom’: ‘The World Was Feeling Dark, I Wanted to Make Something Light’
TheWrap magazine: “It was one of those weird things where everything fell into place, which has never really happened in my career so far,” says the director
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Jason Sudeikis on Why the Niceness of ‘Ted Lasso’ Will Endure Beyond the Trump Era
TheWrap magazine: “I don’t think kindness, empathy and openness ever goes out of style,” the guy who used to play Joe Biden on “SNL” tells TheWrap
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How the ’76 Days’ Filmmakers Found the Personal Stories in a Pandemic
TheWrap magazine: “I just wanted to focus on the human moments,” says director Hao Wu of his film about the early days COVID in China
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‘Crip Camp’ Directors Grappled With a Question: Did a Teen Summer Camp Really Launch the Disability Rights Movement?
TheWrap magazine: “My jaw hit the floor, because I never in my life imagined a radical hippie summer camp for teens with disabilities in the ’70s,” says co-director Nicole Newnham
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‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Director on the Dangers of Filming LGBT Documentary
TheWrap magazine: David France recalls the constant threat of being detained by Chechnyan authorities and what he did when he actually was
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‘Time’ Director Garrett Bradley Explains How She Exposed Mass Incarceration Via One Woman’s Fight
TheWrap magazine: The film has been named Best Documentary by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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For Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard, Documentaries Are a Family Affair
TheWrap magazine: The father and daughter are in the Oscars doc race this year with “Rebuilding Paradise” and “Dads” — and if they go head-to-head, Ron won’t be rooting for himself
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Directors of Voter Suppression Documentary ‘All In’ Definitely Aren’t Surprised by This Year’s Election Mess
TheWrap magazine: “Trump’s claims about voter fraud weren’t new and different, they were part of the playbook we’d already explored in the film,” says co-director Liz Garbus
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How Film Schools Adjusted to Virtual Learning and Quarantined Student Movies
COVID-19 has made education more complicated, but here’s how some schools and students are coping
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See ‘Bill & Ted’ Star Alex Winter’s Insane NYU Student Film, ‘Squeal of Death’ (Video)
The short film by Winter and Tom Stern, which caught the eye of director Sam Raimi, is “a magnum opus of insanity,” says Winter
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Top 50 Film Schools of 2020: AFI Conservatory Tops USC in TheWrap’s 5th Annual Ranking
There’s a new No. 1 in TheWrap’s annual ranking of the top schools for moviemaking and storytelling
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How Female Directors Overcame Years of Bias to Score Record Number of Emmy Nominations
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There’s only so many years you can go into a meeting and hear, ‘We hired a woman once, and it didn’t work,’” Lesli Linka Glatter says
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Why ‘The Morning Show’ Director Mimi Leder Found a Cinematic Look for a Show About TV
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I really wanted to shoot the women on this show very much the way men are shot,” Leder says.