NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indie Spirit Award Noms Give 'Everything Everywhere,' 'TÁR,' 'Women Talking' a Major Head Start With the Indie Spirits further from Oscars weekend, the oft-eccentric awards ceremony could actually influence key races like Best Actress.  By Marcus Jones

Kumail Nanjiani Can Justify Anything In “Welcome to Chippendales,” the comedian said he was happy to play a terrible person: “Even the bad decisions made sense … By Proma Khosla	Disney Under Bob Iger Will Be More Dream, Less Factory "It was not an exciting place to work," said one producer of Disney in the Bob Chapek era.  By Brian Welk

'Glass Onion' Star Leslie Odom Jr. Pitched Some 'Outside the Box' Character Ideas to Rian Johnson "I wanted to be a part of delivering an experience to an audience that felt as rich as the experience I had when I saw the first one," the s … By Kate Erbland	'Smile' Earns an Unexpected Yawn from Some Major VOD Platforms Go VOD or go streaming? Paramount opted for both for the horror hit, and the result may have cut deeply into their $19.99 transactions.  By Tom Brueggemann

	Jeremy Pope Wanted to Support a Black Director with 'The Inspection,' and Boosted His Own Career in the Process The Best Actor contender hopes his work in the Elegance Bratton-directed A24 film tells viewers "you are more than enough."  By Marcus Jones
	How the 'Knives Out' Sequel Got Its 'Glass Onion' Oscar-winning production designer Rick Heinrichs discusses the titular glass dome and the tech mogul's hideaway he built around it.  By Bill Desowitz
	How 'Bardo' Captures a State of Mind Through Sound At the IndieWire Consider This FYC Brunch, sound designer Martin Hernandez spoke about working on the Alejandro González Iñ&aa … By Wilson Chapman
	'Avatar 2' Will Have to Be One of the Highest-Grossing Movies Ever Just to Break Even James Cameron told the studio that his costly sequel represents "the worst business case in movie history."  By Ryan Lattanzio
	Luca Guadagnino Took Advice from a Pathologist for Grisly 'Bones and All' Cannibal Scenes "We wanted to know what it looks like to eat a person — and we discovered that it’s not so easy," the film's head of makeup said … By Ryan Lattanzio