Friday, Jan. 27, 2023

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 75 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This...

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023

The field of feature film nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2022 are: Todd Field for Tár; Joseph Kosinski for Top Gun: Maverick;  Daniel Kwan and...

Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2022

"Top Gun: Maverick" director Joseph Kosinski again had a plane in the air, only this time Chris Hemsworth was at the wheel.

They were shooting "Spiderhead," a science-fiction prison thriller based on a George Saunders story, along the coast of Australia. The film is set almost entirely in...

Monday, May. 23, 2022

In 1983, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was flipping through the May issue of California magazine when he was struck by a story. "Top Guns" read the headline, with a large photograph from inside the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet. The story opened: "At Mach 2 and 40,000 feet over California, it's...

Thursday, May. 12, 2022

Early on in "Top Gun: Maverick," Tom Cruise hops on his sleek motorcycle, wearing Aviator sunglasses and a leather jacket with patches, and speeds into a time machine. No, that's not right. It's actually us who take a trip back.

More than 30 years after Cruise smirked his way to the cocky...

Friday, Oct. 23, 2020

With SHOOT’s 2020 New Directors Showcase Reel having just gone live at NDS.SHOOTonline.com, it’s an apropos time to reflect on what prior Showcases have yielded over the prior 17 years. 

Suffice it to say that there’s been...

Monday, May. 4, 2020

At press time, director Joseph Kosinski was in postproduction on Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures), the much anticipated sequel to 1986’s Top Gun. “I’m kind of in mid-birth on the film so it’s hard to reflect on what it means to me. But I can say that it’s been an...

Friday, May. 1, 2020

SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, May 4, that will contain the latest installment of our Directors Series content.

The lineup of Directors Profiles includes this year’s DGA Award winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series...

Thursday, Apr. 2, 2020

Hollywood's summer movie season is all but finished. "Top Gun Maverick" became the latest would-be blockbuster to be rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Paramount Pictures on Thursday announced that sequel to the 1986 original will now open Dec. 23 instead of June 24. "Top Gun...

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