Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Costume Designers Guild Award 2023 Winners Include ‘Elvis,’ ‘Wednesday’ and ‘House of the Dragon’
Celebrating their 25th iteration, the Costume Designers Guild Awards named eight winners in competitive categories tonight in a ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza hosted by Tituss Burgess. For film, Shirley Kurata (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Jenny Eagan (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery) and Catherine Martin (Elvis) all won awards; both Kurata and […]
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When Producer Ram Bergman Knew Rian Johnson Was a Director Worth Going All-In On
Three years after his PGA Awards nomination for outstanding producer of theatrical motion pictures for Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Ram Bergman has pulled off another one for its sequel, Glass Onion. Bergman and Johnson first worked together on the director’s 2005 debut Brick, and two decades later — after hits like Looper and Star Wars: […]
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Script to Scene: Rian Johnson Breaks Down Pivotal Moment in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’
Johnson says this scene came to him before he figured out Glass Onion‘s structure. “I thought, ‘How fun would it be to do the denouement scene, the Blanc-wrapping-the-whole-thing-up scene, somewhere in the first act, to basically clear off the table the expectation that the mystery they’re all there for is going to be the mystery?’ […]
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‘Outer Banks’ Stars Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline Talk “Emotional Journey” of Season 3 and Franchise’s Future
The Pogues are back. On Thursday evening, the cast and crew of Outer Banks gathered at Westwood’s Regency Village Theater for the show’s season three premiere. This season, the Pogues face yet another dangerous treasure hunt, and after spending the last two seasons looking for the lost Royal Merchant gold and the Cross of Santo […]
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Leslie Odom Jr. Returns to Broadway in Revival of ‘Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch’
Leslie Odom Jr. is returning to Broadway this summer in a revival of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Kenny Leon, who directed Topdog/Underdog and Ohio State Murders this season, will helm the revival of the play by Ossie Davis. The play is scheduled to begin in late summer 2023, which will […]
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‘Glass Onion,’ ‘Yellowstone’ Close 2022 With Big Streaming Weeks
Judging by the Nielsen streaming rankings, Americans spent a lot of time watching movies in the final week of 2022. Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery recorded the biggest single week in the two-plus year history of Nielsen’s weekly rankings, and four other films also had at least 500 million minutes of viewing time. […]
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‘Jack Ryan’ Upends ‘Wednesday’ on Streaming Series Chart
The return of Jack Ryan to Amazon’s Prime Video pushed Wednesday out of the top spot on the streaming series rankings. Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery also had a big premiere, and Peacock landed its first original series in the top 10 the week before Christmas. Jack Ryan, whose third season premiered all […]
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Movie Sequels Aim for Best Picture — and to Make Oscar History
Not another one! Through most of its history, that’s been the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ knee-jerk reaction to any movie sequel seeking Oscar recognition. Only two sequels have ever won the best picture prize. Only a handful of others have been nominated in that category. But this season, all that could change, […]
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‘Glass Onion’ Star Kate Hudson on Why Her Character’s Narcissism Isn’t “The Evil Kind of Narcissism”
In Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Kate Hudson plays the eccentric, over-the-top fashion entrepreneur Birdie Jay, who, at the beginning of the film, seems supremely flawed in every way possible. But just like a true whodunit murder mystery, there is more to Birdie than meets the eye — she’s just someone who […]
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Making of ‘Glass Onion’: How COVID, Warehouse Fires and Too Much Reflective Glass Complicated Production of ‘Knives Out’ Follow-Up
A good mystery often begins with a clue that’s right out in the open, even if no one recognizes it at first. In a similar way, the extravagant Greek villa that serves as the principal setting for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery impressed production designer Rick Heinrichs when he first visited it early in […]
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How ‘Glass Onion’ Editor Bob Ducsay Placed Clues in Plain Sight So Audience “Didn’t Feel Cheated”
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix) In crafting Rian Johnson’s whodunit, editor Bob Ducsay took a bold approach to this intricate story, placing key information in plain sight. To be sure, just watch the Netflix movie a second or third time and see how many clues were right there all along (such as a […]
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‘Glass Onion,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Production Designers on Designing Perfect Living Spaces for Their Characters
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix) Rian Johnson’s whodunit is set during the pandemic in 2020 on the private Greek island estate of the character Miles Bron (Edward Norton) — a villa location on the Peloponnese peninsula that was enhanced with VFX to appear as an island in the Ionian Sea with a glass, […]
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