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Chris Lee

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Movies Reporter at New York Magazine

Movies Reporter at Vulture

Senior Reporter for @Vulture-@NYmag covering Hollywood. "Very fire"

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  • 6 days ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

    Studio executives around town are sweating over Warner Bros.’ unusual agreement with the director, saying it sets a “dangerous” precedent. The script for Sinners began circulating among studios in Hollywood in the winter of 2023 and resulted in a bidding war by January last year: a wild drama-thriller cum survival-horror flick set in Jim Crow–era Mississippi featuring blues-music set pieces, steamy sex scenes, Deep South occultism and dozens of Riverdancing vampires.

  • 1 week ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

    John Wick director Chad Stahelski explains why the Academy is finally creating an Oscars category for stunts — and his lingering questions about it.

  • 2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

    Blame Chicken Jockey. About two-thirds of the way through A Minecraft Movie, the $150 million live-action adaptation of Mojang Studios’ epochal video game, Jack Black and Jason Momoa’s gamers-in-a-strange-land characters find themselves in a boxing ring in a purported fight to the death. At first, they’re facing down a chicken rendered in the game’s signature cubic blocks.

  • 3 weeks ago | mindbodygreen.com | Chris Lee

    Image by Sofie Delauw / StocksyApril 02, 2025We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. I work with some of the highest-performing people on this planet. But collectively, they share a single behavioral flaw that cripples their mental creativity, emotional intelligence, and social adaptability. However, they're not alone. In fact, nearly 40% of us have this same flaw.

  • 3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

    Stuntman Eddie J. Fernandez, who’s worked with Statham on seven movies, breaks down the nuts and bolts of a fight scene with the star. Within the hallowed annals of Stathamology — within the multibillion-dollar-grossing, karate-kicking, larynx-crushing filmic oeuvre of Jason Statham — Eddie J. Fernandez may be Hollywood’s foremost expert.

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Chris Lee
Chris Lee @__ChrisLee
11 Apr 25

John Wick director Chad Stahelski talked to me about the action choreography/stunt community's reaction to the new Stunt Design Oscar: "Don’t underestimate this — the Academy came to us. I think the Academy was going, 'Hey, this could be good marketing'" https://t.co/a6jJTjrwBy

Chris Lee
Chris Lee @__ChrisLee
9 Apr 25

With #MinecraftMovie chicken-jockeying its way to more than double pre-release tracking estimates, there's a kind of changing of the guard in Hollywood. “Video-game movies are overtaking superhero movies as the genre of choice." My report: https://t.co/HBnFuNA1Id

Chris Lee
Chris Lee @__ChrisLee
14 Mar 25

RT @vulture: What is the rest of Hollywood saying about Disney’s ‘Snow White’ dilemma? ‘It’s almost like they’re running away from the movi…