Actress and producer Nhi Do has made a significant mark in Hollywood with major roles in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the Netflix hit, Maid. Now she’s breaking into the indie scene with a terrific performance in a thrilling short film called The Sorrow.
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Actors Dafne Keen and Charlie Barnett didn’t know what exactly they were getting themselves into when they signed on to become Jedis in the upcoming Disney+ series, Star Wars: The Acolyte. Their characters – Padawan Jecki Lon and Jedi Master Yord Fandar, respectively – were entirely new characters created for the series.
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Pulled away from the Company of Angels Theater at Hazard Recreation Park as the lights were dimmed and the locks were shut after a lively post-production reception, and into the dark of the studio parking lot, I had the opportunity to discuss the makings of COA’s newest community play — Rise by Kimba Henderson — with the cast and creators themselves.
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Peter Sohn’s Elemental is set in the fictional city of Element City, where anthropomorphic elements of nature: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air co-exist. The story follows Ember (Leah Lewis) a tough, witty, and hot-headed fire element who has trouble controlling her emotions, and Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie), a go-with-the-flow water element who is overly emotional has no trouble expressing his emotions openly.
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Sony Animation Pictures’ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a massive sequel to say the least. As the follow-up to one of the most visually dazzling comic book movies, co-director Kemp Powers had his work cut out for him trying to make the next chapter bigger than its predecessor in story and in animation.
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DreamWorks Trollstopia is the next chapter in the hair-raising adventures of the Trolls. Now that Poppy knows there are other musical Trolls scattered throughout the forest, she bottles up her endless positivity and invites delegates from every Troll tribe in the forest to live together in harmony in a grand experiment she calls TrollsTopia.
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