In 2012, Bill Hader told Mindy Kaling he was involved in a secret Pixar project involving emotions when they were shooting the pilot episode of “The Mindy Project.” Initially jealous, Kaling said she later gleefully told Hader he wasn’t so special anymore when she too was added to the cast of “Inside Out” a year later. Read more...
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When Grace Helbig, Connor Franta and several other Internet stars checked into hotel rooms two years ago while attending the world’s largest online video conference, VidCon, something caught their attention. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Extension alumna Natalie Novak helped plan VidCon, the world’s largest online video conference. As a digital media agent, her clients include iJustine, Joey Graceffa and jiffpom. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
In the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where there is hope for neither survival nor redemption, a Sonderkommando becomes obsessed with giving one boy a proper burial. Read more...
Photo: Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig stars as Saul in the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, “Son of Saul.” The film, directed by László Nemes, will be screened at the James E. Bridges Theater on Tuesday, followed by a Q&A with Nemes and Röhrig. (Courtesy of Hungarian National Film Fund)
Press Pass is rolling out the Daily Bruin Alumni Q&A series, where we connect with past staffers in the paper and see where the Daily Bruin has taken them in their respective careers. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Frank Spotnitz is a former “X-Files” writer and producer and now works as the chief executive of the production company, Big Light Productions. (Courtesy of Liane Hentscher)
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Read more...
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Eddie Mannix is a sinner—well, a relapsing smoker. Yes it’s toxic, but he can’t resist just one more drag of nicotine. Who can blame him? He works in the fast-paced film industry of the 1950s, juggling the actors’ peculiarities and the backdoor politics to ensure the smooth-running of Capitol Pictures. Read more...
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Warning: This article contains plot spoilers. Let’s get this out the way: the first episode of the newly rebooted “X-Files” is really, really bad. It feels like a show trying to do an impression of “The X-Files.” The characters are the same, the plot points sound familiar, but the soul is gone. Read more...
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