But these colorful creations are rooted in real-life tragedy. “At the time I was in Tokyo, so a bit far from the epicenter of the earthquake. It changed my own worldview and approach to how I create, how I put messages into anime itself. Characters from the anime film ‘Suzume’.crunchyroll The possibility of a disaster like the 2011 earthquake hangs overSuzume. The challenge for Sota and Suzume, then, is to close these doors before it’s too late....

Filmmaker Iris K. Shim talks about collaborating with Sandra Oh and Sam Raimi on her supernatural terror tale. “I had never seen her in a movie like this,” says the director. As soon as she understood that element of the story, she was excited about the film." Sandra Oh in ‘Umma’.Saeed Adyani/Sony Pictures Ummais Shim’s directorial debut and is produced bySpider-ManandEvil DeadfilmmakerSam Raimi. “His producing partner, Zainab Azizi, got the script first,” says Shim....

The grumpy green monster returns in How the Grinch Lost Christmas. It’s been more than 65 years since the Grinch first learned the true magic of Christmas. Now, the grumpy green monster will do everything he can to enjoy the holiday in an upcoming sequel. ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas;’ ‘How the Grinch Lost Christmas’.Random House Books for Young Readers “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!is one of the most beloved holiday celebration books of all time....

The franchise’s newest chapter, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, arrives on HBO Max July 28. And it had, at the beginning, an anonymous narrator," Morgenstein tells EW. And that character became ‘A,’ in the books." ‘Pretty Little Liars’. Drawing from her own life, she then started to build out what would become Rosewood. “I grew up outside Philadelphia and everybody seemed perfect. “The main characters were based on me at different times of my life growing up....

Warning: This story contains spoilers forDon’t Worry Darling. Here are some of the hidden meanings behindDarling’s midcentury modern sheen. YOU DON’T KNOW JACK"I really put my male-gaze hat on for this," says Phillips. Merrick Morton/Warner Bros “It’s not only how men idealize women, but also how they see themselves. This is really about gender roles and about a time when there were these societal expectations. So that idea of the perfect wife, mother, lover, who has to be all things....

“Only in Paris do you get chestnuts falling from the sky.” But Leto is known for following his own curiosity beyond the obvious, mining the most from unexpected places. By now, you’ve heard the stories. Jared Leto talks ‘House of Gucci’ and his past transformations.Focus Features; Fabio Lovino/MGM/Universal; Clay Enos/Warner Bros. When Leto transforms himself for a film, the performance doesn’t always end when the camera stops rolling. “When you make that kind of commitment, there’s something that happens....

Not even Lady Whistledown could’ve predicted the ways in whichBridgertonwould woo the world. But to paraphrase another mega-successful franchise, with great success comes great responsibility. There’s a pressure to live up to season 1’s lightning-in-a-bottle pop culture moment. The ‘Bridgerton’ cast at EW’s March 2022 cover shoot.Zoe McConnell for EW “Our profile going into the second season was really high,” he says. And what of the actors? Suddenly, they were thrust into a white-hot spotlight, becoming the object of the internet’s affections....

Marvel’s mutants have had a good run lately. But that doesn’t always sit right with the franchise’s most famous character. “Omelas is a bright-towered city by the sea. Benjamin Percy has been writing his Wolverine solo comic for more than a year now, but a reckoning is coming in a new event series.Adam Kubert for Marvel Comics There’s sacrifices that must occur, darkness that accompanies the other side of light.”...

Magical Elves CEOs Casey Kriley and Jo Sharon talk about how Top Chef walked so that Nailed It! could run when it comes to representation and diversity on reality cooking shows. There’s nothing, arguably, more democratic than food everyone needs to eat, after all. Courtesy Casey Kriley and Jo Sharon But that doesn’t mean it always does. “The casting onNailed It!has always been the secret sauce,” says Sharon. According to Magical Elves, 66 percent of the crew on the current season ofNailed It!...

“Kevin doesn’t hate you,” Kate reassured him. “Try lightening things up.” “I love them like family,” says Zeile, 24. Niles Fitch, Hannah Zeile, and Logan Shroyer on ‘This Is Us’.Ron Batzdorff/NBC “We’ve been in a unique experience together. We’re extremely close.” “I joke that my memoir will be called ‘From Chipotle to the SAG Awards.'” Hannah Zeile, Niles Fitch, Logan Shroyer, and Milo Ventimiglia on ‘This Is Us’.Ron Batzdorff/NBC Those lenses sparked an unforeseen challenge when his character became a high school football star....

“It was never about: How can we recreate that film into a show?” “It was very much about what stories we wanted to tell that had not been told.” Real-life players also helped shape the show’s story. Chanté Adams and Abbi Jacobson in ‘A League of Their Own’.Prime Video “There is no one book that tells the story,” Graham says. “The queer story didn’t exist except in [brief] mentions. A big part of discovering the queer community was starting to talk to people....

American Born Chineseis a certified classic graphic novel. Now it’s becoming a TV show and no one is more surprised about that than authorGene Luen Yang. “I’m stunned that people are still reading it,” Yang tells EW. Michelle Yeoh and Jim Liu in the ‘American Born Chinese’ TV series.Disney I did not expect this when I first did that book. That just checks every box for me as a TV writer....

Warning: This story contains spoilers forBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever. Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverpays tribute to a fallen hero and also introduces a new one. (Spoilers ahead!) ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.Marvel Studios The scene finds Shuri visiting Nakia in Haiti, where Nakia has been living and working as a teacher. There, Nakia introduces the Wakandan princess to her nephew: Nakia and T’Challa’s son. The boy’s name is Toussaint, but he also bears the Wakandan name T’Challa just like his dad....