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Director of photography Ben Kutchins chose to highlight this moment from episode three of The White Lotus‘ third season — in which Walton Goggins’ Rick and Aimee Lou Wood’s Chelsea visit a Thai snake show — for its rather frightening nature: the use of real serpents. As opposed to most of the scenes shot over the course of the Max drama’s six-month production schedule, this was one of the “rare sequences that we actually storyboarded,” says Kutchins.

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Dan Fogelman became obsessed with crafting a story about the world’s most powerful people after having a meeting with a billionaire a decade ago and hearing a loud bang on his drive home. “It made me think of Secret Service agents and presidents,” he says. Fast-forward to Paradise, where a dystopian community has been built beneath a mountain in Colorado in preparation for an apocalyptic disaster.

3 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Hilton Dresden

Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky selected this shot — which sees courtier Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) and newly appointed Queen of England Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips) walking silently through a magnificent hall toward an uncertain meeting with King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis) — because of the immense technical and emotional challenges it posed. “We need to help the audience understand the world of Tudor England 500 years ago, which is very unfamiliar to us,” he explains.

Feb 15, 2025 | hollywoodreporter.com | Hilton Dresden

James Mangold, the co-writer and director of A Complete Unknown, is no stranger to exploring the life of major musicians in the 1960s, having helmed the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. But in tackling Bob Dylan (played by Timothée Chalamet), Mangold approached his subject through a more narrow, intimate lens, focusing on the star’s initial rise to fame and his relationships with such contemporaries as Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro).

Feb 9, 2025 | hollywoodreporter.com | Hilton Dresden

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s novel to make the historical drama Nickel Boys, director and co-writer RaMell Ross quite literally reinvented a form of cinema. That’s because Ross approached his fiction feature debut with a singular vision in mind: to tell the story through the eyes of the protagonist.