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‘Every Day Was a Ride’: Vampire Carnival’s Directors and Kieron Moore on Fangs, Despair and a Real Carnival
David Charbonier, Justin Douglas Powell and Kieron Moore on building a real carnival in Spain, directing vampires who feed on despair, and Moore finally getting his…
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Tony Gilroy Needed a Sanctuary After Andor. In Behemoth!, Pedro Pascal Became His Exclamation Point
Tony Gilroy wanted a sanctuary after Andor. At AFI FEST, he, Pedro Pascal, Kaya Ralls, John Gilroy and three of Behemoth!'s nine composers explained how they…
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A Country Dog: Ryan Nielsen on Bringing Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Renegade’ Home to Iowa
Ahead of A Country Dog’s AFI FEST world premiere, writer-director Ryan Nielsen and producer Frank D’Argenio talk adapting Shirley Jackson, “Midwest nice” and a snowstorm that…
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The Mosquito Bowl: Bill Skarsgård, Peter Berg and Cast on Honoring the Real Marines at AFI FEST
At the film's AFI FEST world premiere, Bill Skarsgård described standing where Marine Bob Bauman died on Okinawa, and Peter Berg brought the people who helped…
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AFI FEST Celebrates 40 Years of Cinema as LAIKA’s Wildwood Opens the Festival
The 40th AFI FEST opened at the TCL Chinese Theatre with Bob Gazzale's four-decade retrospective and the U.S. premiere of LAIKA's Wildwood. The Nerd Wire was…
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“16 Years”: Travis Knight Reflects on Love, Loss and the Making of Wildwood at AFI FEST
At Wildwood's U.S. premiere, LAIKA's Travis Knight joked about 16 years of stop-motion, then spoke about the brother, brother-in-law and nephew he lost along the way.…
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