“It was a song that called out for as much writing and as many words as possible,” reveals Marc Shaiman of the epic tongue twister tune “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” This patter song at the heart of “Only Murders in the Building” Season 3 proved so complex that the initial songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul felt compelled to recruit another writing duo, Shaiman and Scott Wittman, to help with the intricate rhymes. “It really was one of those more-is-more kind of songs,” admits Paul, “and so we all had a blast.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
According to Pasek, the incredible “ambition” of this season spurred him and Paul to reach out to another writing team. “It felt like to us, what an amazing opportunity to get to work with people that we love and bring in a couple of other voices to help shape a score,...
According to Pasek, the incredible “ambition” of this season spurred him and Paul to reach out to another writing team. “It felt like to us, what an amazing opportunity to get to work with people that we love and bring in a couple of other voices to help shape a score,...
- 4/30/2024
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
The 2024 Art Directors Guild nominations have been unveiled, mirroring the Oscars shortlists for crafts thus far.
The 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards celebrates production design achievements in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. The 2024 Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, Ovation Hollywood, with Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Max Greenfield hosting.
As previously announced, legendary production designer Lawrence G. Paull will be inducted into the Adg Hall of Fame as part of the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg said in a joint statement.
In the Period Feature Film category, Wes Anderson’s lush “Asteroid City” is up against Martin Scorsese’s gritty “Killers of the Flower Moon,” with...
The 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards celebrates production design achievements in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. The 2024 Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, Ovation Hollywood, with Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Max Greenfield hosting.
As previously announced, legendary production designer Lawrence G. Paull will be inducted into the Adg Hall of Fame as part of the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg said in a joint statement.
In the Period Feature Film category, Wes Anderson’s lush “Asteroid City” is up against Martin Scorsese’s gritty “Killers of the Flower Moon,” with...
- 1/9/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Art Directors Guild has unveiled nominations for its 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which celebrate the year’s best achievements in theatrical motion pictures, TV, commercials, music videos and animated features. See the full list below.
The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. Since the trophy show launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, when All Quiet on the Western Front went on to score the Academy Award after the Art Directors lauded Everything Everywhere All at Once (Fantasy), Babylon (Period) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Contemporary).
Winners will be announced February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a Blade Runner Oscar...
The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. Since the trophy show launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, when All Quiet on the Western Front went on to score the Academy Award after the Art Directors lauded Everything Everywhere All at Once (Fantasy), Babylon (Period) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Contemporary).
Winners will be announced February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a Blade Runner Oscar...
- 1/9/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
“Saltburn,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Asteroid City,” “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are among the films singled out for excellence by the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800).
The guild announced the nominations for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.
Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on Feb. 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Max Greenfield will host the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” says award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg in a joint statement.
The Adg divides live-action features into three categories. “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro,” “Napoleon” and “Oppenheimer” were nominated in the period feature film category.
“Barbie,” “The Creator,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Poor Things” and “Wonka” led the fantasy film category.
The guild announced the nominations for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.
Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on Feb. 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Max Greenfield will host the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” says award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg in a joint statement.
The Adg divides live-action features into three categories. “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro,” “Napoleon” and “Oppenheimer” were nominated in the period feature film category.
“Barbie,” “The Creator,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Poor Things” and “Wonka” led the fantasy film category.
- 1/9/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) has revealed the nominations for its 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which will be handed out Feb. 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Ovation Hollywood.
The production designers on Asteroid City, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Napoleon and Oppenheimer were nominated in the category for a period movie. For a fantasy film, the nominees are Barbie, The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Poor Things and Wonka. And the Adg chose Beau is Afraid, John Wick: Chapter 4, The Killer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Saltburn as its contemporary film noms.
Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021 for Mank. The production design Oscar went to the winner of...
The production designers on Asteroid City, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Napoleon and Oppenheimer were nominated in the category for a period movie. For a fantasy film, the nominees are Barbie, The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Poor Things and Wonka. And the Adg chose Beau is Afraid, John Wick: Chapter 4, The Killer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Saltburn as its contemporary film noms.
Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021 for Mank. The production design Oscar went to the winner of...
- 1/9/2024
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We’ve come a long way, baby. But we’re finally ready to start handing out the 2023 Emmy Awards, a full four months after they were initially scheduled. The successful resolutions of two strikes later, the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys will be announced on January 6 (scripted programming) and January 7 (non-scripted programming), starting at 8 p.m. Et, prior to an edited broadcast of the ceremonies airing on Fxx January 13.
Just how long have the 2023 Emmys been in the making? Well, nominees include “The White Lotus,” which hasn’t aired since December 2022. Likewise, Hulu’s “Fire Island,” “Welcome to Chippendales,” and “Hocus Pocus 2” (remember that?!) are all among the TV projects nominated, as well as more recent shows like “Poker Face.”
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards are a helpful bellwether for the Primetime Emmy Awards winners, signaling whether or not we might expect a sweep. And this season brought plenty of critical favorites,...
Just how long have the 2023 Emmys been in the making? Well, nominees include “The White Lotus,” which hasn’t aired since December 2022. Likewise, Hulu’s “Fire Island,” “Welcome to Chippendales,” and “Hocus Pocus 2” (remember that?!) are all among the TV projects nominated, as well as more recent shows like “Poker Face.”
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards are a helpful bellwether for the Primetime Emmy Awards winners, signaling whether or not we might expect a sweep. And this season brought plenty of critical favorites,...
- 1/7/2024
- by Mark Peikert
- Indiewire
In “Only Murders in the Building” Season 3, Meryl Streep plays Loretta Durkin, a struggling actress who is cast in Oliver Putnam’s (Martin Short) new musical “Death Rattle Dazzle.”
And while the season has been slowly pulling back the layers of Loretta, production designer Patrick Howe and showrunner John Hoffman revealed to TheWrap that there was more information about her character that was ultimately left on the cutting room floor.
“My original information that I had to go on for designing a small modest studio apartment is that she lived there for 40 years, she was a gift wrapper at Macy’s, very modest means, always trying to get acting jobs and never landing anything more than a small, off, off, off Broadway part,” Howe told TheWrap. “And so we filmed all this footage of her wrapping gifts and at the Macy’s gift wrap department but then decided to just...
And while the season has been slowly pulling back the layers of Loretta, production designer Patrick Howe and showrunner John Hoffman revealed to TheWrap that there was more information about her character that was ultimately left on the cutting room floor.
“My original information that I had to go on for designing a small modest studio apartment is that she lived there for 40 years, she was a gift wrapper at Macy’s, very modest means, always trying to get acting jobs and never landing anything more than a small, off, off, off Broadway part,” Howe told TheWrap. “And so we filmed all this footage of her wrapping gifts and at the Macy’s gift wrap department but then decided to just...
- 9/5/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
If you were paying close attention to the second and third episodes of “Only Murders in the Building” Season 3, you may have noticed a few Easter eggs paying homage to its high-profile murder victim Paul Rudd.
Production designer Patrick Howe spoke with TheWrap about the fun but challenging task of decorating Ben Glenroy’s (Rudd) lavish penthouse apartment at the Arconia, as well as his stalker’s apartment in Episode 2, with objects celebrating both Glenroy’s and Rudd’s storied career in Hollywood.
“99% of the credit goes to decorator Rich Murray… He really did come up with this long laundry list of Easter egg opportunities that were attributed to Paul’s career up to this point,” Howe said. “The directives we had from the script was that he was going to move into the penthouse apartment, it was going to be sublet from Amy Schumer which would be said in dialogue.
Production designer Patrick Howe spoke with TheWrap about the fun but challenging task of decorating Ben Glenroy’s (Rudd) lavish penthouse apartment at the Arconia, as well as his stalker’s apartment in Episode 2, with objects celebrating both Glenroy’s and Rudd’s storied career in Hollywood.
“99% of the credit goes to decorator Rich Murray… He really did come up with this long laundry list of Easter egg opportunities that were attributed to Paul’s career up to this point,” Howe said. “The directives we had from the script was that he was going to move into the penthouse apartment, it was going to be sublet from Amy Schumer which would be said in dialogue.
- 8/22/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Subtle details in costume design, hairstyling and even production design showed the growth and progression of Selena Gomez’s Mabel in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” Season 2 begins where the first left off — Mabel is the prime suspect after being found by the side of the dead body of Bunny, who lives in the same building as Mabel, Oliver (Martin Short) and Charles (Steve Martin).
When audiences were first introduced to Mabel in Season 1, she’s someone who is trying to protect herself. Costume designer Dana Covarrubias says, “I put her in chunky- soled boots and big puffy coats and jackets that create this sense of a protective armor around her.”
As the season progresses and she begins to connect with Oliver and Charles, she softens up. Solving a murder and being implicated in a murder brings the podcasting trio closer together.
Since no time lapses between the...
When audiences were first introduced to Mabel in Season 1, she’s someone who is trying to protect herself. Costume designer Dana Covarrubias says, “I put her in chunky- soled boots and big puffy coats and jackets that create this sense of a protective armor around her.”
As the season progresses and she begins to connect with Oliver and Charles, she softens up. Solving a murder and being implicated in a murder brings the podcasting trio closer together.
Since no time lapses between the...
- 8/20/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Production designer Patrick Howe joined “Only Murders in the Building” in Season 2, but there’s a very good reason he felt right at home. “I looked at the art department and went, ‘Oh, my God, I have worked with every single person in this art department except the production designer,'” Howe tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “Somehow I had heard that everybody wanted to return, which is a good sign. That means you had to have had fun or there was something you loved about it if you wanted to go at it again because all Season 1s are really difficult to pull off.”
Much like how subsequent seasons of a series delve deeper into characters, Season 2 of the Hulu murder mystery reveals a whole lot more about the Arconia. Howe and his team, including set decorator Rich Murray, had to design secret passageways, hidden elevators and previously unseen apartments,...
Much like how subsequent seasons of a series delve deeper into characters, Season 2 of the Hulu murder mystery reveals a whole lot more about the Arconia. Howe and his team, including set decorator Rich Murray, had to design secret passageways, hidden elevators and previously unseen apartments,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
The 27th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards has announced its nominations in 14 categories, including theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animation features.
Winners will be unveiled at the Adg Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles Downtown Hotel. The announcement was made today by Adg President Nelson Coates, Adg, and Awards Producer’s Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg.
Returning as producer of this year’s Adg Awards is Art Director Michael Allen Glover, Adg. Joining the team as coproducer is Production Designer Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg.
Adg Awards are open only to productions when made within the US by producers signatory to the IATSE agreement. Foreign entries are acceptable without restrictions.
Nominees For Feature Film:
1. Period Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Production Designer: Christian M. Goldbeck...
Winners will be unveiled at the Adg Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles Downtown Hotel. The announcement was made today by Adg President Nelson Coates, Adg, and Awards Producer’s Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg.
Returning as producer of this year’s Adg Awards is Art Director Michael Allen Glover, Adg. Joining the team as coproducer is Production Designer Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg.
Adg Awards are open only to productions when made within the US by producers signatory to the IATSE agreement. Foreign entries are acceptable without restrictions.
Nominees For Feature Film:
1. Period Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Production Designer: Christian M. Goldbeck...
- 1/9/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The new season of “Only Murders in the Building,” currently streaming on Hulu, sees the trio of amateur sleuths and residents of New York’s Arconia apartments played by Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin becoming suspects in a new crime — the killing of Bunny Folger (played by Jayne Houdyshell).
Production designer Patrick Howe was told by show co-creator John Hoffman that Bunny’s apartment would need to be a new set for the season. “It hadn’t even registered that the character was dead. In all my years of designing, I don’t think I’d ever designed for a dead person,” Howe says.
Bunny had been a longtime resident of the Arconia and the president of the building’s co-op, so Howe looked to influences from luxury interior designers Bunny Williams and the late Mario Buatta to create a look of settled affluence.
The bold and lively...
Production designer Patrick Howe was told by show co-creator John Hoffman that Bunny’s apartment would need to be a new set for the season. “It hadn’t even registered that the character was dead. In all my years of designing, I don’t think I’d ever designed for a dead person,” Howe says.
Bunny had been a longtime resident of the Arconia and the president of the building’s co-op, so Howe looked to influences from luxury interior designers Bunny Williams and the late Mario Buatta to create a look of settled affluence.
The bold and lively...
- 7/20/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for “Only Murders in the Building” Season 2, Episode 5.]
This week’s episode of “Only Murders in the Building,” titled “The Tell,” is a literal blast to the past. Mabel (Selena Gomez) hosts a party for her new art gallery friends, including possible paramour Alice (Cara Delevingne). But the party soon goes off the rails when Oliver (Martin Short) sees an opportunity to play his favorite 1970s parlor game, Son of Sam. Soon, the audience is transported to a fictional ’70s landscape as only Oliver can envision it.
Though the episode takes place in Mabel’s apartment, it’s an opportunity to highlight Oliver’s past, and how much of it has influenced the present. A more realistic depiction of the ’70s is found during a flashback to Oliver in his younger, poorer days. Though the camera doesn’t pick up exactly how destitute Oliver once was, production designer Patrick Howe wanted...
This week’s episode of “Only Murders in the Building,” titled “The Tell,” is a literal blast to the past. Mabel (Selena Gomez) hosts a party for her new art gallery friends, including possible paramour Alice (Cara Delevingne). But the party soon goes off the rails when Oliver (Martin Short) sees an opportunity to play his favorite 1970s parlor game, Son of Sam. Soon, the audience is transported to a fictional ’70s landscape as only Oliver can envision it.
Though the episode takes place in Mabel’s apartment, it’s an opportunity to highlight Oliver’s past, and how much of it has influenced the present. A more realistic depiction of the ’70s is found during a flashback to Oliver in his younger, poorer days. Though the camera doesn’t pick up exactly how destitute Oliver once was, production designer Patrick Howe wanted...
- 7/20/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
When you take a bite of seven-layer dip — a recipe slightly more elaborate, though nonetheless desirable, than what Martin Short’s condiment-craving character, Oliver Putnam, constantly consumes throughout “Only Murders in the Building” — the desired outcome stems from simple addition: Each ingredient, or layer, compliments the next, combining to create a delicious treat, albeit one of such density to test the rigidity of any chip. While Oliver is happy to subsist on lighter toppings like Tzatziki and hummus, a seven-layer dip could reasonably be considered a meal. And even if it’s not the main course, even if Tostitos-wielding noshers only consume a few scoops or hone in on two or three flavors — carving out the beans and guac, while avoiding the olives and onions — they’re typically content with the snack, considering its versatility, its depth, its wide-ranging appeal.
Comparing a professionally made, award-winning TV series like “Only Murders in the Building...
Comparing a professionally made, award-winning TV series like “Only Murders in the Building...
- 6/20/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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