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Anora's sound team admitted they initially thought the film was a romantic comedy. Written and directed by Sean Baker, the 2024 film follows Anora "Ani" (Mikey Madison), a young escort in Brooklyn who seizes her chance at a Cinderella story by marrying the son of a Russian oligarch, Ivan (Mark Eidelstein), but her fairytale unravels when his parents travel to New York to annul their union. Since its release, Anora has been praised for its riveting narrative and atmospheric sound design, earning a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94%. This awards season, the film earned multiple nominations, including Best Sound Mixing at the Film Critics Guild Awards.

In an interview with Screen Rant's Owen Danoff, sound editing supervisor Andy Hay discussed how his unique editing process involved handing over incomplete reels during production. The opening scenes of Anora, which were vibrant and energetic, led the team to the false assumption that this film would be lighthearted.

Warning: Spoilers for Anora

Sean Baker’s Anora is a serious Oscars contender after being nominated for an impressive five Golden Globes. Written and directed by the filmmaker behind Red Rocket and The Florida Project, Anora tells the story of a young woman from Brooklyn who becomes caught up in a whirlwind romance with the son of an oligarch. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora and Mark Eydelshteyn as her flame Ivan, and has a cast that also includes Yura Borisov, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, and Emily Weider.

Given Anora’s verité feel and lack of a musical score, audiences may find it easy to overlook the hard work the movie’s sound team put into bringing its world to life (which is arguably the point). Still, sound team members John Warrin and Andy Hay worked hard to augment audio recorded on set with carefully designed and placed sounds that...

Sean Baker‘s “Anora” is a wild and moving movie, a skewed fairy tale that veers from slapstick comedy and romance to action and tragedy, hitting every other tone on the emotional scale along the way. Yet Baker didn’t want a traditional score — there’s no music that isn’t source (predominantly the needle drops in the strip club where Mikey Madison‘s title character works), and thus none of the typical clues to guide the audience’s responses to the tonal shifts.

That created a challenge for sound designers, supervising sound editors, and re-recording mixers John Warrin and Andy Hay, whose sound environments had to serve the function that music would in a more conventional film. “It leads to a situation where sound design often behaves as score,” Hay told IndieWire. “Texturally, emotionally, what are we trying to say in any given moment? That leads us to various decisions.

Neve McIntosh (“Shetland”) and James Anthony-Rose are joining the seven-episode fourth season of Masterpiece on PBS’ “All Creatures Great and Small.”

The drama, based on a collection of stories by best-selling author James Herriot that have sold 60 million copies internationally, is currently filming on location in Yorkshire and will air on the network in early 2024 and Channel 5 in the UK this fall.

Season 4 will return to Yorkshire Dales, picking up in 1940 as Churchill takes office and Europe is under serious threat. With Tristan away serving in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West) and James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) bring in some extra hands to help around the practice.

McIntosh will play the highly efficient bookkeeper Miss Harbottle, while Anthony-Rose will play undergraduate vet student Richard Carmody who arrives at Skeldale as part of his placement under the guidance of James.

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[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “All Creatures Great and Small” Season 3, Episode 5, “Edward.”]

Over nearly three seasons, Mrs. Hall as been the emotional foundation of “All Creatures Great and Small.” Anna Madeley has played her as a shoulder to cry on, a wind at the sails of her trusted friends, and a compassionate listener in both good times and bad. In Episode 5 of the show’s Season 3, now available via PBS, “All Creatures Great and Small” gave Mrs. Hall her own moment in the spotlight.

In “Edward,” Mrs. Hall finally gets the chance to meet her estranged son. Now a young man, Edward (Conor Deane) is almost a different person from the young child she last saw. As Edward faces an imminent deployment in the early days of World War II, he takes the opportunity to meet his mother for a short afternoon at a train station. If that meeting looked like it featured two people unfamiliar with each other,...

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One Night In Miami (2020) is currently available on Blu-ray on the Criterion Collection

Adapted by Kemp Powers from his acclaimed play, the feature directorial debut of Academy Award–winning actor Regina King puts viewers in a room with four icons at the forefront of Black American culture as they carouse, clash, bare their souls, and grapple with their places within the sweeping change of the civil rights movement. February 25, 1964, has gone down in history as the day that the brash young boxer Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) defeated Sonny Liston, but what happened after the fight was perhaps even more incredible: Ali, civil rights leader Malcolm X, NFL great Jim Brown, and “King of Soul” Sam Cooke all came together at a Miami motel. Electric with big ideas and activist spirit,...

The final 10 episodes have begun filming in Hungary

“The Last Kingdom” is officially headed into the last season. After six years, split between two different networks, Season 5 will be the final season for the show, according to Deadline and Variety.

Originally debuting on BBC Two in 2015, “The Last Kingdom” found a home at Netflix in 2018. The series is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling The Saxon Stories novels, following the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon-born warrior who was raised a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England.

The final season of “The Last Kingdom” will be based on the ninth and 10th books in the 13-part series, and consist of 10 episodes, currently filming in Hungary. In these final episode Uhtred will be tasked with training King Edward’s first-born son Aethelstan as a warrior, working to achieve his own destiny. In the process, Uhtred will have...

“The Last Kingdom” will end with its upcoming Season 5 on Netflix.

The announcement comes as the show begins production on its fifth season in Budapest, Hungary.

“I love this job,” series star Alexander Dreymon said. “Playing Uhtred for 5 seasons has been a wonderful journey. And I’m truly grateful to have been given the opportunity to direct. In doing so, I came to fully appreciate the spectacular talent and skill of our cast and crew even more. I can’t wait to share it with our fans, without whom none of this would be possible.”

Based on the ninth and tenth books of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling novel series “The Saxon Stories,” the fifth season will see Uhtred (Dreymon) realize his destiny is more than just Bebbanburg: it is tied to the future of England itself. Charged with training King Edward’s first-born son Aethelstan as a warrior, Uhtred’s...

Exclusive: The Last Kingdom is to ride out for a final time, as Netflix brings the curtain down on the beloved adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling The Saxon Stories novels.

The streaming giant and producer Carnival Films confirmed that Season 5 of The Last Kingdom will be the last, bringing an end to a historical drama that originally started life on the BBC six years ago.

Filming is underway in Hungary on the final 10-part season, which will continue to follow the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England.

Charged with training King Edward’s first-born son Aethelstan as a warrior, Uhtred’s ambition will have an even higher purpose. But to achieve this destiny, Uhtred will have to face down his greatest enemy and suffer his greatest loss. The season is based on the...

All Creatures Great And Small has found its new Mrs. Pumphrey following the death of Diana Rigg last September.

Miranda and A Very English Scandal actress Patricia Hodge will step into the role for Season 2 of Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece’s period drama, adapted from bestselling author James Herriot’s cherished collection of stories about a young country vet in 1930s Yorkshire.

Produced by Playground, Season 2 is currently shooting in the UK with other new cast including Dorothy Atkinson (Call the Midwife) as Diana Brompton, and James

Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley) as Colonel Merrick. Returning to the series are Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse, Rachel Shenton, Matthew Lewis, Cleo Sylvestre, and Kriss Dosanjh.

Playground CEO Sir Colin Callender said: “We were deeply saddened by the passing of Dame Diana Rigg who will always be a treasured member of the All Creatures family. Mrs. Pumphrey and her overly indulged Pekingese,...

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “All Creatures Great and Small” Season 1, including the ending of the finale.]

There are many ways that “All Creatures Great and Small” feels like a soothing force in the current TV world, but one might not be fully apparent until the ending moments of the Christmas special that closes out the show’s first season on PBS. The seventh chapter of this adaptation update — one that also includes some surprise sleigh bells in the breezy opening theme music and important plot points driven by the presence of mistletoe — concludes without the season ever seeing a true antagonist.

As series creator and writer Ben Vanstone explained, that was always part of the plan.

“I made a rule quite early on in the process that I don’t think there are any villains in this piece,” Vanstone said. “You have to find that drama in a different place. And I think that having that restriction,...

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The Last Kingdom Season 4 Episode 6

Q. What the difference between the Sickness and a royal husband?

A. The Sickness doesn’t demand a dowry before it kills ya!

Bit of early 10th century stand-up for you there. Not that young Aelfwynn’s laughing, the child’s current options being either death by pestilence, or marriage to a man old enough to be her (grand)father. Episode six closed on the poor waif ailing in the arms of Eadith – now simply a companion and not a future sister-in-law after Eardwulf was sent packing.

Why a band of loyal Mercian soldiers allowed the murderer of their king to gallop away is a puzzler. Surely upon production of that royal seal, Eardwulf should have been turned into a human colander by his guards’ swords, or at the very least dragged back to Aylesbury for punishment? Instead,...

Bigger. Bloodier. Better. That’s what to expect from The Last Kingdom season four according to its official Twitter account.

In season four, the TV adaptation reaches books seven and eight of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories in ten new episodes due to arrive this April.

The new season will see another time jump and welcome aged-up versions of Uhtred’s children who will have their own storylines this time around. Catch a glimpse of the action in the brand new trailer below.

See who’s playing them, who’s joining them and what happens in the source material in our handy season four round-up below.

The Last Kingdom season 4 – The Geek Lowdown

How many series are there? Three, with one on the way

Renewed or cancelled? Renewed for series four in December 2018

Next series air date confirmed? Sunday April 26th 2020

Where to watch? Netflix

Created by: Stephen Butchard based...

The adventures of The Musketeers will continue. Though BBC has cancelled Atlantis and In the Flesh, the broadcaster has decided to renew The Musketeers for a third season. The program airs on BBC America in the United States. Three episodes of the second season have aired on Saturday nights so far.

Director Andy Hay broke the news this weekend on Twitter, saying that season three will begin filming in the Czech Republic in April.

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The Musketeers will return to BBC One for a third series, it has been confirmed.

The show's recommissioning was made possible by financial backing from BBC Worldwide and BBC America, who also contributed to the first two series.

A BBC Worldwide spokesman said: "The Musketeers has delighted audiences at home and around the world and we're thrilled that we've been able to financially support bringing a third series to the BBC, with improved value for the licence fee payer."

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News of the period adventure's renewal first surfaced when director Andy Hay announced on Twitter that new episodes would start shooting in the Czech Republic from April.

The Musketeers stars Luke Pasqualino, Tom Burke, Howard Charles and Santiago Cabrera as the eponymous heroes, with Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Maimie McCoy and Tamla Kari also among the cast.

Its second series will resume on Friday,...

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2.4 Emilie

So four episodes in – nearly halfway – and we’ve had a pretty good season so far, a so-so opener but two strong follow-ups and now Emilie which sits somewhere comfortably inbetween. Written by Showrunner Adrian Hodges and directed by Andy Hay (of first season’s Knight Takes Queen and The Exiles as well as a future episode within this season), Emilie is a very different beast than last week’s somewhat frenetic The Good Traitor. However, whereas The Good Traitor was better than the sum of its many parts, Emilie never seems to fly in the way the previous episode did. Here are a couple of thoughts on why that might be.

First up, the main story and predominant focus is on the titular Emilie. Played...