Joseph Kosinski
Damson Idris on Filming Alongside Brad Pitt, Real Drivers for ‘F1’ Movie: “We Shoot All of This Epic Stuff”
Damson Idris is looking back at filming alongside Brad Pitt and real Formula 1 drivers for the upcoming Joseph Kosinski-directed F1 movie. The Snowfall actor recently sat down with Vanity Fair where he recalled his audition for the highly-anticipated movie as well as the first day of filming once he landed the role of Joshua […]
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Lewis Hamilton Says He Regrets Turning Down Role in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Racing superstar Lewis Hamilton is opening up about the time he passed on an opportunity to work with Tom Cruise that he still regrets today. The Formula One driver revealed in a recent interview with GQ magazine that he befriended Cruise after the actor invited him to the set of his 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow. The […]
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Apple Reveals First Look at Brad Pitt’s Formula One Film
Apple Studios has revealed a first-look image from Brad Pitt’s hotly anticipated Formula One feature. The untitled film, which also features Snowfall star Damson Idris in a lead role, is set in the world of elite motor racing. Pitt stars as a former F1 driver who returns to race for the fictional APXGP team, a […]
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My Cannes Moment: Joseph Kosinski, Warwick Thornton, Christian Mungiu, Paul Laverty and James Marsh on Their Best Festival Experiences
Joseph KosinskiThe Top Gun: Maverick director on the epic gala — including a flypast by the French airforce — in 2022. This year he returns as the exec producer on BMW Films’ The Calm featuring the all-electric BMW i7 and starring Uma Thurman and Pom Klementieff The whole Cannes experience — the photographers on both sides of the […]
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Revealing the Nearly Hidden VFX in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Director Joseph Kosinski and DP Claudio Miranda employed high-flying live-action cinematography to create the sense of realism in Top Gun: Maverick, but extensive visual effects work was still required to bring the acrobatic stunts to the screen — everything from adding digitally augmented environments and backgrounds to fully CG aircrafts — reveals production VFX supervisor […]
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Feinberg Snapshot: 10 Oscar Contenders That Have Been Overlooked and Undersung
Best Picture Thirteen Lives Ron Howard’s masterful portrait of the 2018 Thai cave rescue may have been hindered by a summer release and/or following the 2021 doc The Rescue. It deserves another look. Best Director Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick Maverick is one of 2022’s most critically and commercially successful films. It didn’t direct itself. […]
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Joseph Kosinski, Gina Prince-Bythewood and the THR Director Roundtable
The shot that nearly broke them, the pointlessness of auditions, the gift of final cut — the directors of some of this year’s most powerful movies got together and got real about their craft. In December, JD Dillard (Devotion), Todd Field (Tár), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Joseph Kosinski […]
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to Hit Paramount+ in Late December
Top Gun: Maverick is the movie that keeps on giving. The blockbuster will hit Paramount Global’s streamer Paramount+ on Dec. 22, the service unveiled Tuesday. “Paramount+ today announced the #1 film of 2022, Top Gun: Maverick, will be available to stream globally on the service beginning Thursday, Dec. 22, in the U.S., as well as […]
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director Joseph Kosinski Talks Fan Theories and Val Kilmer’s First Reaction to His Beloved Scene
[This story contains spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick.] Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick continues to break record after record, much like its titular character. The Top Gun sequel has now passed Avengers: Infinity War to become the sixth biggest domestic film of all time, and it currently ranks twelfth on the all-time worldwide box office […]
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Joins Billion-Dollar Box Office Club in a First for Tom Cruise
Boom! Top Gun: Maverick has joined the billion-dollar club at the global box office. It’s the first Tom Cruise film to achieve the milestone, and the 50th Hollywood movie overall, not adjusted for inflation. Director Joseph Kosinski’s film passed the barrier after finishing Sunday with an estimated domestic total of $521.7 million and $484.7 million […]
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Jurnee Smollett Discusses ‘Spiderhead’ Secrets and the Future of Black Canary
[This story contains spoilers for Netflix’s Spiderhead.] Jurnee Smollett knew she wanted to book some time with Spiderhead, even before her character’s path was fully locked down. The actress, who got her start as a child actor on shows like Full House and has established herself as a forceful presence in a wide range of […]
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Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller in Netflix’s ‘Spiderhead’: Film Review
Jurnee Smollett also stars in Joseph Kosinski's darkly comic thriller based on a George Saunders short story.
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