Her vacation looks like something out of a dream! <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Sarah El-Mahmoud has been with CinemaBlend since 2018, starting as a freelancer shortly after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in Journalism. In college, she was the Managing Editor of the award-winning college paper, The Daily Titan where she specialized in writing/editing long-form features, profiles and arts & entertainment coverage, including her first run-in with movie reporting, with a phone interview with Guillermo del Toro for Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Into</strong>: Sarah is CinemaBlend's resident YA enthusiast, often bringing her lifetime love of books and the stories behind their often contentious adaptations to the site. Deeply into when music and movies intersect, from knowing the hype musical tracks of Mamma Mia!, beautiful scores of Michael Giacchino and yes, the absolute banger Twilight soundtrack way too well. She is also passionate about highlighting and interviewing voices within the industry to help open the door for Hollywood to better represent the world through movies and television. Horror, she really loves horror movies. The world of animation as well... OK don't make her pick one genre. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Excited About Right Now</strong>: The continued resurgence of horror and musicals. The next Hunger Games movie, Mike Flanagan's upcoming shows, the Wicked movies and the final Spider-Verse animated film. </p>
Effies gotta stick together.
This whole situation is adorable!
I’m still wrapping my head around this.
The self-deprecating response is exactly on brand.
Fanning’s synth is coming online, with a little help from an Alien: Romulus software patch.
Any review of Hulu's The Great should start off with this very important note: Are you an animal lover? Do you find it physically upsetting to watch any harm come to a furry creature, in real life or on-screen? Then The Great is definitely a hard pass for you. This isn't even like watching that scene in John Wick with your eyes closed. The violence against animals is graphic, brutal, and pervasive across multiple episodes. However, it's also somehow essential to the very peculiar cocktail of a TV show that The Favourite screenwriter Tony McNamara has …
Hulu has released the first trailer for The Great, a satirical period piece from the Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, Tony McNamara. The series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great, the outsider who maneuvered her way to becoming Russia's longest-reigning leader. This looks...a whole lot like The Favourite, down to the dances, rabbits hunts, and the inclusion of Nicolas Hoult. I know it's probably not the same house, but it also looks like they went and just used the same house. This is a good thing, by the way. The Favourite was one …
Directed by Brett Haley (Heart Beats Loud) and based on the best-selling novel by Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places tells the story of Violet Markey (Elle Fanning) and Theodore Finch (Justice Smith), whose bond will change each other’s lives, forever. The two meet at a time in their lives when they’re struggling with deep emotional scars and, in Finch’s case, undiagnosed mental illness, but their love for each other allows them to get to a place where being who they are is okay and truly living in the moment is meaningful, for however long it …
The 21-year-old actress compares herself to Violet Markey.
If you're all-in on messy drama and difficult people, you should probably have Netflix's upcoming YA adaptation of All the Bright Places on your radar. You can get your first look at the feature-length romantic drama in the first trailer below, but be warned that it seems to give away quite a bit of the plot, as these Netflix adaptation teasers are wont to do. Based on the novel by Jennifer Niven, with a script written by Niven and Liz Hannah, directed by Brett Haley, All the Bright Places stars Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Alexandra Shipp, …
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