When searching for someone to write the score for his new film, Rebuilding, Max Walker-Silverman settled on Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington, two songwriters in their own right, but new to the world of film composition.

Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller had its world premiere at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival and, a year later, the film is making the theatrical rounds. One could say, though, that the story of the documentary started about ten years ago, when the profession of “mistress dispeller” began to crop up in China.

The film’s initial release didn’t create much fanfare, but Hocus Pocus has since developed into a beloved cult classic. Hocus Pocus was the first feature film role for Tobias Jelinek, who plays one of the film’s bullies.

Before Oli Julian was tapped to compose the score for the Netflix adaptation of The Twits, he was a kid growing up on Roald Dahl books, messing around in his childhood bedroom with recording equipment.

Austin King knows genre filmmaking. He’s a Features Programmer and Head of Submissions for Fantastic Fest, the preeminent showcase of genre filmmaking. Now, he’s making his short film debut with One Night Cherub.

Before Patrick Lawrence became a film editor, he was a musician. While the two might not seem like they have anything in common, both rely on a sense of rhythm to be successful.

In the case of Kyle Misak’s 2025 Fantastic Fest-premiering film, Bad Haircut, the problem isn’t with the haircut itself, but with the barber who wields the scissors.

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires is a deeply personal project, and this legacy component of the project is something composer Ego Plum is still trying to wrap his head around.

The participants in Sean Cisterna’s documentary will be the first to tell you they don’t want anything to do with horror movies, but that didn’t stop them from being part of making one.

Five years ago, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ short film, Forastera, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. You may remember that five years ago, things looked a little different because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Burnin' Percebes is a writing/directing duo composed of Fernando Martínez and Juan González. The Fantastic Golem Affairs marks their fourth collaboration together, but at this point the two don’t see it as two people working together.

Dan Deacon is a jack-of-all-musical-trades. Over the summer he performed the national anthem at Camden Yards, he toured across the country with his solo work, and now he’s coming to HBO on Sunday nights with the score the for Mark Ruffalo-led crime drama, Task.

We’ve all had those days when the world feels like it’s out to get us. When everything that can will and does go horribly wrong. Ironically, bad days can also be a source for creative inspiration. That was the case with writer/director Rani DeMuth’s And Now I Lay Me Down.

Writer, director, and star Matthew Campanella talks about the film’s inspiration, the family affair of filmmaking, and the merits, or lack thereof, of jarred pasta sauce.

Dacre Montgomery sat down with Film Obsessive News Editor Tina Kakadelis to discuss finally playing an Australian role, challenging audiences with difficult films, and what his creative voice sounds like.

When looking for a composer for the series, The Eyes of Wakanda called upon Hesham Nazih, who scored the Moon Knight series, but that wasn’t the beginning of his career.

James Everingham didn’t set out to be a film composer, but at seventeen, he found himself at Abbey Road, recording his first feature score. Since then, he’s spent ten years collaborating with Hans Zimmer, won a ​​Televisual Bulldog Award for BBC's Frozen Planet II, and working in the worlds of film, TV, and video games. Everingham is once again teaming up with Zimmer for the score of the Apple TV+ series Chief of War.

It took Kelsey Taylor seven long years to develop her take on Little Red Riding Hood. By the time To Kill a Wolf became the film audiences are able to see now, very little of her original concept was still part of the script. One of the things that made it through the test of time? Taylor herself.

Dara Taylor sat down with Beyond the Cinerama Dome to discuss the dreamlike way she was added to the MCU, tying Riri’s journey to the existing world of Black Panther, and the art of bucket drumming.

Production designer Udo Kramer who sat down with Beyond the Cinerama Dome to discuss joining the series in the second season, blending the old and new worlds together, and his favorite sets from the show. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.