'Wuthering Heights' Production Design: Behind the Bottles Scene & More

www.indiewire.com: Whatever else you might think of it, there’s no denying writer and director Emerald Fennell designed her adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” to be gleefully jarring. Maybe no moment exemplifies this better than the near jumpscare of Cathy (Margot Robbie) returning to her not-so-homey childhood abode to find her father, Mr. Earnshaw (Martin Clunes), dead on the ground in basically Peter Griffin pose, surrounded by piles of gin bottles rising to the rafters.

Catching up with David Crank

Engage with CMU: From summer theater to summer blockbusters, David Crank has designed it all. The College of Fine Arts alumnus is an art director and production director in the film and TV industry. His credits include “Knives Out,” “Lincoln,” “There Will Be Blood,” “John Adams,” which earned him an Emmy Award, and “News Of The World,” which brought an Oscar nomination.

Apple TV+ leads the 2025 SDSA Awards

www.goldderby.com: Is this the start of an Apple TV+ Emmy landslide? The boutique streaming service emerged as the big winner at the 5th Annual SDSA Awards, held by the Set Decorators Society of America. Apple TV+ took home three awards — the most of any platform — when the winners were unveiled on Monday.

‘Drag Race’ Production Designer Jen Chu Emmys Interview

www.thewrap.com: While the category may technically be called Outstanding Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series, only one reality show actually landed a nomination this year: “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

‘A Complete Unknown’: How Its Designers Brought Back Greenwich Village – and Bob Dylan’s Skinny Jeans

www.yahoo.com/entertainment: François Audouy and Arianne Phillips, the production designer and costume designer of “A Complete Unknown,” both benefited from the pandemic- and strike-related delays that gave them more time to prep for James Mangold’s look at the first few years of Bob Dylan’s career in New York City.

A Look at Production Design Oscar Contenders 2021 “Tenet” and “Mulan”

Variety: David Fincher’s “Mank” takes audiences back into 1930s Hollywood, a black and white world where the screenplay for “Citizen Kane” comes together. In Disney’s “Mulan,” audiences are transported to the Imperial City for the live-action heroine tale based on Chinese folklore. George C. Wolfe’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hones in on a recording session one hot summer’s day in Chicago 1927. And Christopher Nolan experiments with time-inversion in the globetrotting action thriller “Tenet.”

All Access At The Super Bowl LV Halftime Show

LiveDesignOnline: All Access provided major engineering and automation solutions for the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show, serving as the primary set shop, working in collaboration with Tait and Atomic to realize the production designs by Bruce Rodgers of Tribe. Live Design chats with All Access president Erik Eastland about the scope of their work and the challenges provided by this year's pandemic-era project, and the fixed-location set in a busy football stadium concourse.

David Crank (News of the World): Meet the Experts: Production Design

GoldDerby: David Crank was the production designer on “News of the World,” but he also had another gig: stand-in actor. Crank and cinematographer Dariusz Wolski spent about two months scouting locations in Santa Fe., N.M., for the Western and had to put their acting chops to the test. “He and I figured a lot of things out. We would film the script with our iPhones. There were four of us and we had to act out the script. We would send these little things [to director Paul Greengrass],” Crank tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: Film Production Design panel (watch above). “I hope they never hit the light of day because I’m not a performer!”

'Lovecraft Country' Production Designer on Ardham Lodge, Time Machine

Variety: For HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” production designer Kalina Ivanov’s work had to not only convey and reflect the 1950s Midwest and Chicago, but also tackle the supernatural, monsters, drag queens, 1921 Tulsa, outer space, 1920s Paris and the Dahomey Amazons of 19th century Africa. It was an epic task that Ivanov and her term handled with eye-popping aplomb.

How 'Ratched's' Production Design Team Went Sinister Glam

Variety: Ryan Murphy had a very specific look in mind for Lucia State Hospital, a mental institution that’s at the center of his new Netflix series, “Ratched” (premiering Sept. 18), a “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prequel and origin story for Nurse Ratched (Sarah Paulson) that takes place in 1947.

Pure London festival of fashion is bigger and bolder with Congo Blue

ETNow.com: The UK’s biggest gathering of fashion industry buyers, Pure London, once again returned to the capital’s Olympia London in February, presenting the hottest emerging brands, designers and trends, making it one of the most anticipated events in the London trade calendar. Held twice a year, Pure London, together with Pure Origin, is the only UK fashion show to offer ready-to-wear collections and fashion sourcing all under one roof.