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“Furiosa’s” Jenny Beavan has been named as the recipient of this year’s “Career Achievement Award” by the Costume Designers Guild.

Past recipients of the Career Achievement Award include Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, Deborah L. Scott, Michael Kaplan, Ruth E. Carter, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Aggie Rodgers, Sharen Davis, April Ferry, Judianna Makovsky, Eduardo Castro, Julie Weiss, Sandy Powell, Marlene Stewart, Ruth Myers, Ann Roth, Milena Canonero, Albert Wolsky, Colleen Atwood and Theoni V. Aldredge.

“I am very honored to be receiving this award! How wonderful to be recognized by such a fabulous group… costume designers. The best!” said Beavan.

Former guild president Salvador Perez will be bestowed with the Distinguished Service Award.

In the past, the Distinguished Service award has gone to Mary Ellen Fields, Betty Pecha Madden, Maggie Schpak, Sharon Day, Lois DeArmond, Edwina Pellikka and Mary Rose.

“Being a member of the Costume Designers Guild has...

Paramount Global has chosen the nine writers who will participate in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program for 2024-2025. Selected in the program’s 20th year are Jamil Akim O’Quinn, Wei Ling Chang, Adrian Colón Jr., Jai Franklin Sarki, Seth Harrington, Natalie Higdon, writing team Dijorn Moss & Trinea Moss and Nick Spates.

The Paramount Office of Global Inclusion helms the program. It is an eight-month-long program that provides mentorships, career development, support and personal access to executives and the decision-making processes for new writers in television. The program’s end goal is to prepare them for a television career.

For 16 weeks, participants will attend small workshop-style meetings with showrunners, executive producers, agents, managers and development and current executives to better understand how the writing and television business works. The writers are paired with an executive from the Paramount studio brands for regular meetings, fostering discussions about their work and receiving valuable...

The Color Purple costume designer Francine Jamison-Tanchuck will be honored with the Career Achievement Award at the 26th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards this year.

The award recognizes “an individual whose career in costume design has left an indelible mark on film and television.” Previous recipients include Ruth E. Carter, Deborah L. Scott, Michael Kaplan, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Sandy Powell, Marlene Stewart, Ruth Meyers, Ann Roth, Milena Canonero, Albert Wolsky, Colleen Atwood, and Theoni Aldredge, Sharen Davis, April Ferry, Aggie Rodgers, Judianna Makovsky and Eduardo Castro, among many others.

“Try not to allow someone’s negative thoughts or comments keep you from moving forward creatively. You can be nervous, but don’t be afraid to risk taking the first steps even if you can’t completely see the staircase!” says Jamison-Tanchuck.

Jamison-Tanchuck’s credits include Regina King’s triple-Oscar nominated One Night in Miami as well as...

The stormtroopers of "Star Wars" are named for soldiers who fought for Imperial Germany during World War 1 — though the Galactic Empire they serve has a lot more in common with the German government of the Second World War.

Rather than the brown and green cloth uniforms the historical stormtroopers wore, those in "Star Wars" wear white polymer armor with face-concealing helmets. It's easier to make the costumes when you only need multiple copies of one design and in-universe, the uniformity reinforces the Empire as a military dictatorship.

The stormtroopers' look is one of the most well-remembered parts of "Star Wars" — it's up there with lightsabers, Darth Vader, and the Millennium Falcon. The prequel and sequel trilogies only touched up the designs for the stormtroopers and clone troopers, opting not to reinvent the wheel. It's not just the films where their influence reigns either; Jonathan "Jony" Ive, chief design officer at Apple,...

Aside from the story, one thing that fans have always loved about "Star Wars" is the production design of the entire universe. Just think about the silhouette of Darth Vader's helmet and cape, Obi-Wan Kenobi's dusty, unassuming robes, the shape of the Star Destroyers, or even the look of C-3Po and R2-D2. There is a strong visual language in this franchise, and even when you have a show like "Andor," which strips a lot of the usual "Star Wars" tropes away, you see a Stormtrooper on screen for a second, and you know exactly where you are in the world of fiction. 

After decades of Stormtroopers being instantly recognizable, we got a major upgrade in the form of Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) in "The Force Awakens." The character utilized the already cool design of the Imperial troops, but in chromium, with a red-striped black cape slung to one side.

The makers of Flashdance hoped for a hit, but no one had a feeling it would become a generation-defining sensation.

The Paramount film marked the first collaboration of producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, later known for blockbusters like Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun. With a script co-written by Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct), Flashdance centered on Alex, a teenage welder in Pittsburgh who spends her nights performing at a cabaret bar but dreams of becoming a professional dancer.

Bruckheimer remembers the film’s team struggling to choose the lead, but that director Adrian Lyne was sold on newcomer Jennifer Beals. “The bosses at Paramount couldn’t make up their minds, so they brought all the secretaries in to view the screen tests, and they all picked Jennifer,” Bruckheimer tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Among the performers in the mix for the male lead of Nick, the steel mill owner who falls for employee Alex,...

This post contains spoilers for "The Mandalorian" Chapter 23 - "The Spies."

At the beginning of the newest episode of "The Mandalorian," Moff Gideon addresses the Imperial Shadow Council with a demand and a request. He demands they consider new leadership, and requests reinforcements. It's not so curious that he's asked for more squadrons of Tie Interceptors, especially since we watched Lady Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin make short work of them in an episode earlier this season. But it is curious that he asks for bodyguards in the form of Praetorian Guards. We've heard that name before, but never this early in the timeline -- and it doesn't bode well for our Mandalorian heroes.

Rian Johnson And The Praetorian Guard

The Praetorian Guard originated in Rian Johnson's masterpiece of a Star Wars movie, "The Last Jedi," and he designed them to be lethal. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Johnson...

Celebrating their 25th iteration, the Costume Designers Guild Awards named eight winners in competitive categories tonight in a ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza hosted by Tituss Burgess.

For film, Shirley Kurata (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Jenny Eagan (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery) and Catherine Martin (Elvis) all won awards; both Kurata and Martin are also nominated for Oscars for costume design this year.

In television, Jany Temime (House of the Dragon), Colleen Atwood and Mark Sutherland (Wednesday), Amy Roberts (The Crown) and Carrie Cramer and Jason Rembert (Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls) were the night’s winners. And Natasha Newman-Thomas won for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ music video “Spitting off the Edge of the World.”

From tonight going forward though, the statuettes given out will not simply be called Costume Designers Guild awards. They now have a name, akin to the Academy Award also being...

If you told me that there was a famous actor who was secretly an all-powerful wizard, Nicolas Cage would be my first and only guess as to who you were referring to. This made him the perfect star for 2010's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." In the film, Nicolas Cage is a wizard living in modern-day Manhattan who takes a reluctant physics student, played by Jay Baruchel, under his wing as his apprentice. The title of the film gets most of that across.

As he always does, Cage brought his signature manic movement and energy to the character. Co-star Jay Baruchel remarked in an interview that Cage "has such a unique, distinct presence."

As often happens when you bring such a passionate star into a film, many of Cage's suggestions as to how the character would look and operate made it to the final cut of the film.

Using Your Hands

In the film,...

The list of candidates for the 2020 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors election is now out, with the winner in each branch being chosen directly from these entries rather than whittling it down to four finalists in each, as has been done previously. The list of candidates is made up of qualified AMPAS members who actually submit themselves.

Also new this year in the streamlined timetable, as Deadline exclusively reported May 16. The winners for the 17 open slots on the 54-member board will be chosen by preferential balloting, just like Best Picture race at the Oscars. Voting begins Monday and ballots are due back June 5.

The actors branch is the largest in the Academy and it also has drawn the biggest field of contenders for the one spot that is up. Incumbent governor Whoopi Goldberg is running for re-election against past governor Ed Begley Jr. vying to return to the board.

Whoopi Goldberg will be facing 18 other actors who want her seat on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, the Academy revealed to its members on Friday.

The Academy posted the list of candidates for the board from all 17 of its branches, with incumbent Actors Branch governor Goldberg going up against a slate of challengers that includes past governor Ed Begley Jr., as well as Richard Dreyfuss, James and Stacy Keach, Tim Matheson, Joe Pantoliano, Lou Diamond Phillips and Rita Wilson, whose husband, Tom Hanks, served on the board for many years.

Other branches whose contenders hit double digits included Cinematographers (12), Directors (13), Executives (12), Producers (16), Sound (10) and Visual Effects (10).

But the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch, in which incumbent Kathryn Blondell was ineligible to run again, has only a single candidate, Linda Flowers.

Also Read: Oscars Board Election Has New Rules - But Expect the Same Old Results

Blondell,...

The list of candidates for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2020-2021 Board of Governors has been unveiled to members.

Voting begins on June 1 and ends on June 5.

Candidates run for three-year terms with a maximum of three terms. Each branch has three seats on the board. Only one of those seats is open each year because terms are staggered.

The candidates were posted on the Academy members’ portal on Friday afternoon. Below is the complete list (divided by branch) of those running for spots on the board.

Actors

Michael Lee Aday

Ed Begley, Jr.

Robert Carradine

Nicolas Coster

Colman Domingo

Richard Dreyfuss

Spencer Garrett

Bruce Glover

Whoopi Goldberg (incumbent)

James Keach

Stacy Keach

Peter Wong

Jodi Long

Tim Matheson

Joe Pantoliano

Lou Diamond Phillips

Andrea Riseborough

Andrew Stevens

Rita Wilson

Casting Directors

Kerry Barden

Richard Hicks

Margery Simkin

Debra Zane

Cinematographers

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Richard P. Crudo

Svetlana Cvetko...

The recent culmination of the Star Wars Skywalker saga might have left fans with mixed feelings regarding the direction that new filmmaker choose to take George Lucas's original creation in, but there is no doubt that newer characters from the franchise have become a significant part of modern pop culture. One such character is the Jedi/Sith hybrid, Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren. A recent picture on Instagram by John Wilson Film Stills documents the first moments when actor Adam Driver tried on his character's costume:

Documenting the creation of The &#8288Force Awakens was a dream job for me, it meant I was able to photograph so many facets of the production. From sets being constructed, props being made and costumes being created for all the cast members.&#8288 Here we have the incredibly talented Michael Kaplan with Adam Driver fitting the Kylo Ren costume. Being able to record moments...

Actress Awkwafina is set to star in a gambling drama "The Baccarat Machine".

The drama is inspired by a Cigar Aficionado article by Michael Kaplan, reports variety.com.

Also Read:?Awkwafina becomes first Asian woman to win Golden Globe Award

The film, set up at Sk Global, is about Cheung Yin "Kelly" Sun and her unlikely partnership with poker player Phil Ivey. The story is about Sun amassing millions of dollars of winnings by teaming with Ivey and using a technique known as edge sorting, recognising the use of playing cards in which the edges on either side are unevenly cut by fractions of an inch.

"We can't think of a better way to start this project than by announcing that our friend Awkwafina has come on board," said Sk Global co-ceo John Penotti, adding: "She is uniquely equipped to bring Kelly to life onscreen and will infuse the role with genuine humor and humanity.

Awkwafina is attached to star in a new film telling the true story of the most successful female gambler in history, a project with the working title of “The Baccarat Machine” from Sk Global, Skg’s co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin announced Wednesday.

Awkwafina will play gambler Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun and follow her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey to beat some of the country’s major casinos at their own game.

“The Baccarat Machine” is inspired by Michael Kaplan’s article of the same name as published in Cigar Aficionado. It tells the true story of Kelly Sun, a young Chinese woman who turns a painstakingly developed talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own game. With major casinos conspiring to bar her from their properties, Sun partners with the international “King of Poker” Phil Ivey in order to take down the system through subterfuge,...

Awkwafina is set to star in “The Baccarat Machine,” a gambling drama inspired by a Cigar Aficionado article by Michael Kaplan.

The film, set up at Sk Global, centers on Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun and her unlikely partnership with poker player Phil Ivey. Sun amassing millions of dollars of winnings by teaming with Ivey and using a technique known as edge sorting — recognizing the use of playing cards in which the edges on either side are unevenly cut by fractions of an inch.

“We can’t think of a better way to start this project than by announcing that our friend Awkwafina has come on board,” Sk Global co-ceo John Penotti said, “She is uniquely equipped to bring Kelly to life onscreen and will infuse the role with genuine humor and humanity. Along with our partners at Sharp, we’re thrilled to bring this unbelievable story to the screen.”

Sk...

Awkwafina is set to star in Sk Global upcoming feature The Baccarat Machine (working title) inspired by the true story of the most successful female gambler in modern history, Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun, and her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey. This is Awkwafina’s second project with Sk Global following her breakout in Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians.

The project is based on the Las Vegas insider Michael Kaplan article “The Baccarat Machine,” published in Cigar Aficionado, which follows young Chinese woman Sun as she painstakingly develops talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own game. With major casinos conspiring to bar her from their properties, Sun partners with the international “King of Poker” Phil Ivey in order to take down the system through subterfuge, ingenuity, and pure daring, resulting in one of the most ingenious legal gambling runs ever documented.

Skg Co-CEOs...

True story inspired by article in Cigar Aficionado.

Golden Globe winner Awkwafina, who starred in Spirit Awards best film winner The Farewell, is reuniting with Sk Global on gambling drama The Baccarat Machine (working title).

The feature is inspired by the true story of the most successful female gambler in modern history, Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun, and her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey.

Sk Global, who cast Awkwafina in the hit Crazy Rich Asians, will finance and produce The Baccarat Machine along with Jeffrey Sharp of Sharp Independent Pictures. Andy Bellin is writing the script and the...

Awkwafina is getting her poker face ready for her next feature film.

The Farewell actress is set to star in Sk Global’s The Baccarat Machine, which follows the most successful female gambler in modern history, Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun, and her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey.

Andy Bellin is currently writing the script, which is inspired by Michael Kaplan’s article “The Baccarat Machine,” published in Cigar Aficionado, which tells the true story of Sun, a young Chinese woman who turns a painstakingly developed talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own ...

Awkwafina is getting her poker face ready for her next feature film.

The Farewell actress is set to star in Sk Global’s The Baccarat Machine, which follows the most successful female gambler in modern history, Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun, and her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey.

Andy Bellin is currently writing the script, which is inspired by Michael Kaplan’s article “The Baccarat Machine,” published in Cigar Aficionado, which tells the true story of Sun, a young Chinese woman who turns a painstakingly developed talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own ...

When it came time to honor costume designer Michael Kaplan with a lifetime achievement award at the recent Costume Designer Guild Awards in Hollywood, the actress whom he dressed in one of the most famous sweatshirts in movie history, came to pay tribute.

“Michael has just been such a huge influence in my life,” says Jennifer Beals, 56, who’s starring role in Flashdance created a sensation. “He really taught me the beauty of the art of design and I’m just really happy to be here to see him honored.”

“He took something that was very every day and made it something much,...

The Costume Designers Guild handed out its trophies for the 22nd annual Cdg Awards with “Jojo Rabbit” and “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” receiving top honors among the costumers.

In the TV category, the hit “The Masked Singer” and designer Marina Toybina beat out reigning designer Zaldy (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”) for excellence in variety, reality-competition, live television.

Mindy Kaling hosted the evening, which celebrated special honorees Charlize Theron, Mary Ellen Fields, Michael Kaplan and Adam McKay.

Catherine O’Hara accepted the award on behalf of “Schitt’s Creek” winner Debra Hanson. O’Hara said during the Getty Fires she had three minutes to save her prized possessions. “I had three minutes to evacuate,” she said. “I grabbed my passport, photos of my two sons and my character’s clothes.”

Kaplan was honored with the career achievement award, presented by J.J. Abrams. The two have worked closely together on numerous projects, including multiple...

“Jojo Rabbit,” “Knives Out” and “Malificent: Mistress of Evil” have been named the best-dressed films of 2019 by the Costume Designers Guild, which handed out its annual awards on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.

“Jojo Rabbit” won in the Excellence in Period Film category, “Maleficent” in the Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film category and “Knives Out” in the Excellence in Contemporary Film category.

Of this year’s winners, only “Jojo Rabbit” is nominated for Oscars in the Best Costume Design category. “Knives Out” and “Malificent” are not, with the Academy’s Costume Designers Branch this year only nominating two of the 15 Cdg nominees, “Jojo” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”

Also Read: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Finds Academy Grappling With Change and Loss

Among the Hollywood guild awards, a Cdg win is not one of the more reliable Oscar predictors. In the previous 21 years, one of the Cdg winners has gone...

Knives Out, Jojo Rabbit and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil strode away with the film prizes at the 22nd annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton.

It was ladies’ night at the CDGAs as seven of the eight winners were female. Mayes C. Rubeo and Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit bounded away with the Period Film prize, Knives Out costumer Jenny Eagan solved the Contemporary Film conundrum, and Ellen Mirojnick of Disney’s Maleficent sequel conjured up the Sci Fi/Fantasy Film victory. It was the third Cdga win for Eagan in five nominations, the first in four noms for Rubeo and the third in seven for Mirojnick, who also picked up the Costumers’ Career Achievement Award in 2016.

Jojo Rabbit‘s Rubeo, whose credits also include Thor: Ragnarok and World War Z, now could be considered the front-runner for the Oscar. Since the CDGAs launched 21 years ago,...

Expect The Beverly Hilton to be filled with dramatically creative attire when the 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards take place Jan. 28. Hosted by Mindy Kaling, the ceremony will bestow its career achievement award on costume designer Michael Kaplan, who is also a nominee for excellence in sci-fi/fantasy film for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Initially, Kaplan had mixed feelings about the award, which will be presented to him by J.J. Abrams, with whom he has worked on the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises. "I still have a lot to do and say, and a lifetime achievement award kind ...

Expect The Beverly Hilton to be filled with dramatically creative attire when the 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards take place Jan. 28. Hosted by Mindy Kaling, the ceremony will bestow its career achievement award on costume designer Michael Kaplan, who is also a nominee for excellence in sci-fi/fantasy film for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Initially, Kaplan had mixed feelings about the award, which will be presented to him by J.J. Abrams, with whom he has worked on the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises. "I still have a lot to do and say, and a lifetime achievement award kind ...

The interstellar, multi-generational saga of House Skywalker reaches its concluding and (hopefully) climatic chapter with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth installment in the space opera that has captivated moviegoers since the Carter Administration. The mega-release from Disney’s Lucasfilm and director/producer/co-writer J.J. Abrams premieres tonight and the live-stream will be available above beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pt/ 8:30 p.m. Et.

The PG-13 fantasy film opens in U.S. theaters on Dec. 20. At tonight’s premiere Abrams will join Producers Kathleen Kennedy and Michelle Rejwan, executive producers Callum Greene and Jason McGatlin at the splashy premiere. Also on hand: composer John Williams, co-writer Chris Terrio, director of photography Dan Mindel, production designer Rick Carter, costume designer Michael Kaplan and editors Maryann Brandon and Stefan Grube.

The film’s cast members are expected to be on hand, including Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver,...

The World Premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is tonight in Hollywood. The highly anticipated conclusion of the Skywalker Saga is about to come to an end. The iconic story that has spanned four decades over nine episodes and spawned legions of fans worldwide has many wondering how it'll come to an end. What does J.J. Abrams have up his sleeve this time? We're all about to find out in a few days, but some lucky attendees are going to find out tonight.

The Rise of Skywalker red carpet event begins at 5:30 p.m. Pt / 8:30 p.m. Et this evening. Star Wars fans have been treated with a variety of different TV spots over the last few weeks, but J.J. Abrams assures that the movie has not been spoiled in the promotional material. With that being said, the Star Wars world premiere is tonight, so there will be leaks,...

The Costume Designers Guild said Wednesday that Charlize Theron will be honored with the Spotlight Award, Adam McKay the Distinguished Collaborator Award and former owner of Bill Hargate Costumes Mary Ellen Fields the Distinguished Service Award at this year’s Costume Designers Guild Awards.

The trio will be feted January 28 at a gala ceremony at the Beverly Hilton celebrating the year’s best in film, TV, and short form costume design. They join Michael Kaplan, who will receive the guild’s Career Achievement Award.

The Spotlight Award honors an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design, the guild said. The Distinguished Collaborator Award honors individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of costume design and creative partnerships with costume designers. The Distinguished Service Award honors individuals whose specialties and talents contribute to the craft and art of costume design.

The Costume Designers Guild announced Wednesday that Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron will be honored with the spotlight award.

The Spotlight Award honors an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design. “Charlize Theron is a costume designer’s dream, bringing integrity and style to every character she embodies, including her roles in ‘Long Shot’ and ‘Bombshell’ this year,” said the Guild in a statement.

Also at this year’s ceremony, Adam McKay will be the recipient of the collaborator award, while former owner of Bill Hargate Costumes, Mary Ellen Fields, will receive the service award.

McKay joins Ryan Murphy, Meryl Streep and Quentin Tarantino as recipients of the collaborator award. The award honors individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of costume design and creative partnerships with costume designers.

Mary Ellen Fields began her career constructing costumes for a local college.

Michael Kaplan, whose sartorial imagination and grasp of garb has been on display in screen projects such as Blade Runner, Star Trek, Flashdance, Fight Club, The Alienist, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I Am Legend, Se7en, and Pearl Harbor, is this year’s winner of the Costume Designers Guild’s Career Achievement Award;

Kaplan will be presented with the honor at the 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards (CDGAs) on January 28 at The Beverly Hilton. Filmmaker J.J. Abrams, who has worked with Kaplan in two screen universes (the Disney-owned Jedi galaxies and Paramount’s Federation universe) will present the award. Kaplan’s illustrious career includes seven past Cdga nominations in competitive categories.

The Career Achievement Award recognizes leaders who have made a lasting impact on Costume Design. Past recipients include Ruth E. Carter, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Julie Weiss, Eduardo Castro, Judianna Makovsky, Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell, and Ann Roth.

J.J. Abrams will honor his longtime costume design collaborator at the 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards, the organization announced Thursday.

The event, to be held Jan. 28 at the Beverly Hilton, will recognize Michael Kaplan with the Career Achievement Award.

Kaplan has collaborated with Abrams since Star Trek in 2009, designing for Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi and the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

His other projects include Blade Runner (1982), Clue (1985), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Armageddon (1998), Fight Club (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Mission: Impossible ...

J.J. Abrams will honor his longtime costume design collaborator at the 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards, the organization announced Thursday.

The event, to be held Jan. 28 at the Beverly Hilton, will recognize Michael Kaplan with the Career Achievement Award.

Kaplan has collaborated with Abrams since Star Trek in 2009, designing for Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi and the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

His other projects include Blade Runner (1982), Clue (1985), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Armageddon (1998), Fight Club (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Mission: Impossible ...

A big part of The Rise of Skywalker will be all the cool toys coming from Hasbro. And as has been the tradition with all previous Star Wars movies, this final sequel in the Skywalker saga will be introducing a few new Stormtroopers to the action figure line-up. Earlier this year, just before Comic-Con kicked off in San Diego, we got a look at the Sith Trooper, clad in bright red armor and said to service Supreme Leader Ren. Now we have our look at the second trooper being added to the mix. Meet the Jet trooper.

Get your first look at the brand new jet trooper from Star Wars: #TheRiseOfSkywalker revealed at #D23Expo: https://t.co/Vx3JSfYsjvpic.twitter.com/EmMGz7kPSb

— Star Wars (@starwars) August 25, 2019

Called a Jet Trooper, we'd assume this warrior would have a jet pack like Boba Fett. And that appears to be correct,...

Lucasfilm revealed a new First Order Stormtrooper at Disney’s D23 Expo. This is the First Order Jet Trooper that will make its debut in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Every new Star Wars movie apparently needs to introduce a new Stormtrooper, but this is pretty cool, though!

The costume is designed by Michael Kaplan, and the description reads:

Specialized Stormtroopers of the First Order, jet troopers soar into battle equipped with with agile rocket packs.

Check out a couple other photos below and let us us know what you think of the Jet Trooper!

Ivanhoe Pictures, the division of Sk Global that produced last year's smash hit Crazy Rich Asians, is partnering with Jeffrey Sharp of Sharp Independent Pictures to finance and co-produce a feature film about Cheung Yin "Kelly" Sun, the most successful female gambler in modern history.

Given the working title The Baccarat Queen, the project is inspired by Vegas insider Michael Kaplan's article "The Baccarat Machine" published in Cigar Aficionado.

Ivanhoe says the film "will feature strong Asian characters" but will be told mostly in English for the worldwide market.

The Baccarat Queen will tell the true story of ...

Ivanhoe Pictures, the division of Sk Global that produced last year's smash hit Crazy Rich Asians, is partnering with Jeffrey Sharp of Sharp Independent Pictures to finance and co-produce a feature film about Cheung Yin "Kelly" Sun, the most successful female gambler in modern history.

Given the working title The Baccarat Queen, the project is inspired by Vegas insider Michael Kaplan's article "The Baccarat Machine" published in Cigar Aficionado.

Ivanhoe says the film "will feature strong Asian characters" but will be told mostly in English for the worldwide market.

The Baccarat Queen will tell the true story of ...

Ivanhoe Pictures, which produced “Crazy Rich Asians,” has partnered with Jeffrey Sharp and Sharp Independent Pictures to finance and co-produce “The Baccarat Queen” about Chinese gambler Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun.

The project is inspired by Michael Kaplan’s article “The Baccarat Machine,” published in Cigar Aficionado, about Sun amassing millions of dollars of winnings by teaming with “King of Poker” Phil Ivey and using a technique known as edge sorting — recognizing the use of playing cards in which the edges on either side are unevenly cut by fractions of an inch.

Ivanhoe plans to develop a predominately English-language film featuring Asian characters. Ivanhoe and Sharp will produce.

“‘The Baccarat Queen’ is a truly captivating story that will feature a diverse international cast, a goal that Ivanhoe continues to pursue as global storytellers,” Ivanhoe Pictures president John Penotti said. “We are thrilled to partner with Sharp as we tell this exciting,...

Ivanhoe Pictures, a division of Sk Global and the production company behind Crazy Rich Asians, has teamed with Jeffrey Sharp of Sharp Independent Pictures to produce The Baccarat Queen (working title), a film about Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun, the skilled Baccarat player who is considered the most successful female gambler in modern history.

Based on Michael Kaplan’s Cigar Aficionado article, The Baccarat Machine (which is also Sun’s nickname), the predominately English-language film will feature Asian characters for the global market.

The film will tell the true story of Sun, a young Chinese woman who turns a painstakingly developed talent and obsession for payback into one of the most ingenious legal gambling runs ever documented. Over the course of less than a year playing baccarat in major casinos around the world, Sun amasses winnings in the 10s of millions of dollars. With major casinos conspiring to bar her from their properties,...

Star Wars 9 will begin filming at London's Pinewood Studios on August 1, 2018, Lucasfilm has announced. J.J. Abrams returns to direct what is being billed as the final installment of the Skywalker saga. He previously directed the very successful The Force Awakens and took over duties for Episode IX once Colin Trevorrow left the director's chair. Abrams co-wrote the screenplay for the final chapter in the new trilogy with Chris Terrio (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice).

Returning cast members include Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, and Billie Lourd. Joining the cast of Star Wars 9 are Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant, who will be joined by veteran Star Wars actors Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams, who will reprise his role as Lando Calrissian. This confirms that Luke Skywalker will be back in some way, shape or form.

TNT is hoping to make a big mark on the Emmys with their limited series “The Alienist.” Produced by Cary Joji Fukunaga (“True Detective”), the show focuses on a criminal psychologist (Daniel Brühl) who teams up with a newspaper illustrator (Luke Evans) and a headstrong NYPD secretary (Dakota Fanning) to investigate a serial killer in 19th century New York City. Gold Derby recently spoke with Brühl, Evans, and Fanning, director Jakob Verbruggen, cinematographer P.J. Dillon, production designer Mara LePere-Schloop, and costume designer Michael Kaplan about their work. Scroll down and click on their names below to be taken to their full interviews.

To prepare for his role, Brühl read the works of psychology pioneers like Sigmund Freud, finding a lot of similarities between his character, Dr. Kreizler, and that famous Viennese founder of psychoanalysis. But “the handiest thing is that I’m married to an alienist,” he reveals. “My wife is a psychologist,...

Dakota Fanning has done a lot of interviews in recent months about her TNT drama “The Alienist,” and one theme keeps popping up: How sadly relevant the show’s treatment of women, immigrants and the poor in the 1890s feels to 2018.

“That comes up a lot when I discuss the series,” she told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast. “On the one hand, you want your series to be relevant and to speak to people and create conversation, and be modern. But some of the reasons this series is relevant and modern are actually why you wish that weren’t true… There are parallels, that’s a fact.”

In “The Alienist,” Fanning plays Sara Howard, an ambitious secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective. That puts her in many ways at odds with the times, as women were not accepted in the workplace.

“People my age think 1896, that was forever ago,...

Costume designer Michael Kaplan‘s interest in “The Alienist” stretches back to when Caleb Carr‘s original novel was first published in 1994. “I just loved so many elements of it,” he recalls. “It seemed like a designer’s dream to be able to illuminate everything that was going on in 1896.” Produced by Cary Joji Fukunaga (“True Detective”), this TNT limited series focuses on a newspaper illustrator (Luke Evans) who teams up with a criminal psychologist (Daniel Brühl) and a headstrong NYPD secretary (Dakota Fanning) to investigate a serial killer in 19th century New York City. Kaplan kept a close watch on the project’s development for 24 years before finally landing the job. Watch our exclusive video interview with Kaplan above.

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“I always loved the contrast between the various levels of the society,” Kaplan explains. “The Alienist...

For Michael Kaplan, the chance to step away from costume designing “Star Wars” and work on his first period piece was a long time coming.

In fact, he’d been eyeing Caleb Carr’s “The Alienist” ever since the crime drama was published in 1994 and unsuccessfully developed as a feature by Curtis Hanson. So when Kaplan finally landed the 10-part TNT series set in 1896 New York (with the help of producer friend and J.J. Abrams collaborator Bryan Burke), it was both a welcome and fortuitous fit.

“Conveying class differences was a big part of my attraction to the project,” Kaplan said. “There are so many different strata in 1896 New York society. But it was like doing 10 movies at once. We were doing dozens of fittings a day, every day, like five days a week, sometimes seven. It was crazy. But I wanted to take the time and the care with each performer.

At this point, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ governors election looks more like a round-up than a race; more than 180 members have declared their interest in filling 17 contested spots on the 54-member Board of Governors.

Voting in the run-off round starts on Monday and ends May 18. That will narrow the present field to a maximum of four nominees per branch in the final round, which follows.

For now, there are on average about 11 candidates in the running for each slot. In the casting directors and costume design branches, only three members have declared for each slot. But not so in the actors branch, where 17 members — including Brie Larson, Jacki Weaver and Meg Ryan — are vying for the spot being vacated by termed-out Tom Hanks; or the producers, executives, and public relations branches, all of which have a bumper crop of candidates. Marvin Levy, currently a governor in the public relations branch,...

Netflix have released a short featurette about costume design for The Alienist, giving an overall glimpse at the work of Michael Kaplan and his team in putting together the era of 1896, New York. What is enticing about The Alienist, apart from the fact that it’s brilliant whodunit telly, is that it is set outside of England, which is so often the preserve of dramas such as these. This is NY style at a point in history when those with money were about to get a whole lot more. Expensive, in other words, and if you had deep enough pockets your taste in fashion would echo this.

Check out the video below:

The Alienist takes place during the Gilded Age in the U.S. that covered around thirty years toward the end of the 1800s. It was a time of significant socio-economic growth, as reflected in clothing for both men and women.

The Costume Designers Guild nominees for the 20th annual Cdg Awards in film, TV, and shortform costume design have landed. Three costume categories separate contemporary, period, and fantasy/sci-fi, so there’s room for more contemporary titles such as “I, Tonya” and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” which are less likely to make it to the big Oscar show. Period films like “Phantom Thread” and “The Shape of Water” and big-scale fantasies like “Thor: Ragnarok” tend to make the Oscar grade. Given the number of slots, among the notable snubs are period films “Darkest Hour” (which boasts more showy costumes than nominated “Dunkirk”), “The Post,” “The Beguiled,” “Victoria & Abdul,” and “Mudbound.”

On the television side, a number of popular picks emerged with nods, including “Game of Thrones,” “Black Mirror,” “The Crown,” and “Stranger Things.” Like the film nods, each category is divided by contemporary, period, and fantasy/sci-fi designations.

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The Costume Designers Guild nominees for the 20th annual CDG Awards in film, TV, and shortform costume design have landed.

Three costume categories separate contemporary, period, and fantasy/sci-fi, so there’s room for more contemporary titles such as “I, Tonya” and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” which are less likely to make it to the big Oscar show. Period films like “Phantom Thread” and “The Shape of Water” and big-scale fantasies like “Thor: Ragnarok” tend to make the Oscar grade. Given the number of slots, among the notable snubs are period films “Darkest Hour” (which boasts more showy costumes than nominated “Dunkirk”), “The Post,” “The Beguiled,” “Victoria & Abdul,” and “Mudbound.”

On the television side, a number of popular picks emerged with nods, including...

You can put money down that Mark Bridges work in “Phantom Thread” will get in. The rest? Educated guesses although do we really think Jacqueline Durran can secure two nominations in one year? Sandy Powell did it two years ago, but that was historic… [Posted Jan 3]

Frontrunners:

Alexandra Byrne, “Murder on the Orient Express”

Mark Bridges, “Phantom Thread”

Jacqueline Durran, “Beauty and the Beast”

Jacqueline Durran, “Darkest Hour”

Luis Sequeira, “The Shape of Water”

Almost there:

Renée April, “Blade Runner 2049”

Stacey Battat, “The Beguiled”

Consolata Boyle, “Victoria & Abdul”

Lindy Hemming, “Wonder Woman”

Jennifer Johnson, “I, Tonya”

Michael Kaplan, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Ellen Mirojnick, “The Greatest Showman”

Sandy Powell, “Wonderstruck”

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Puce. That’s the color of Vice Admiral Holdo’s gown in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Costume Designer Michael Kaplan and I had a brief catch up to talk...