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THE MARVELS Director Nia DaCosta Comments on the Film's Low Numbers Pointing to "Lack of a Really Solid Script" — GeekTyrant
The Marvels (2023) served as a sequel to not only Captain Marvel (2019), but also the limited series Ms. Marvel , and it incorporated the returning characters into a team that worked together to save the universe. It was a fun flick, but it did not do well at the box office, and it unfortunately ended up being Marvel's lowest-grossing movie of all time. Looking back on it, director Nia DaCosta revealed to THR that it really seems to her like the script was the biggest obstacle in making the movie a success. DaCosta is making the rounds promoting her upcoming film 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple , and she said of the difference in the projects: 'Making the 28 Years Later sequel was one of the best filmmaking experiences I've had. One of the issues I had with Candyman and Marvels was the lack of a really solid script, which is always gonna just wreak havoc on the whole process.' DaCosta was a co-writer on both of those films, but she is also relatively early in her career, and she is learning new things with every film she makes, so it's great to see the missteps along the way and learn from them. The 28 Years Later sequel will be released on January 16, 2026, and her romantic drama Hedda , starring Tessa Thompson, is set to be released on October 22, 2025.
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Dan Tana, Former Owner of Namesake Hollywood Restaurant, Dies at 90
Dan Tana, the sometime actor and former maitre d' who opened the namesake Dan Tana's Restaurant in West Hollywood in 1964, has died. He was 90. The eatery, which became a Los Angeles institution, hosting actors and various industry figures, announced Tana's death in a Facebook post on Saturday, saying that he had 'passed on.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Terence Stamp, Brooding Legend of British Cinema, Dies at 87 Michael Sloan, 'The Equalizer' Co-Creator, Dies at 78 Ronnie Rondell Jr., Hollywood Stuntman Set on Fire for a Pink Floyd Album, Dies at 88 'We all know that he created a very magical place,' the statement, attributed to Dan Tana's staff, said of the restaurant's former owner. 'Our beloved little yellow house will forever feel his presence.' Tana took over the old Dominick's in West Hollywood in 1964, after working as a maitre d' at La Scala and Villa Capri, and saw a need for a place where stars could gather and dine late into the night (he kept the kitchen open until 12:30 a.m.). 'There was not a decent restaurant serving until 1 a.m. You had to go to a coffee shop,' Tana said of the L.A. dining scene at the time in a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which he looked back at his eponymous eatery as it celebrated its 50th anniversary. In the Saturday Facebook post, Dan Tana's staff said that working for La Scala and Villa Capri inspired Tana to open his own place. 'He was always proud of where he came from and what he accomplished,' the post continued, noting Tana's past as a former soccer star in Yugoslavia. The staff praised his 'wonderful stories' about Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, James Dean, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis. 'This man is a legend, and as you know a legend never dies,' the Facebook post concluded. After rejecting offers from other prospective buyers, Tana sold the restaurant to current owner Sonja Perencevic in 2009 and moved to Belgrade, Serbia. Perencevic promised to keep things as they'd been, which Saturday's Facebook post indicated she'd still done more than 15 years later, saying she 'kept it exactly the same since 1964.' 'Some of our patrons were skeptical,' Perencevic told THR in 2014 and Tana himself said that same year that he was 'happy' to discover 'nothing has changed.' Hollywood figures who frequented the restaurant include Cameron Diaz, Harry Dean Stanton, Rick Yorn, Nick Styne, Jerry West, Johnny Carson, Jack Nicholson and Dabney Coleman. 'I've been coming here so long, it's part of my whole lifestyle,' Stanton told THR in 2014. Diaz had her first meal at Dan Tana's at the age of 16 and would regularly meet up with manager Yorn and Styne at the eatery. 'It was the first restaurant I ate in in Los Angeles. I'm 42 now, and it has not changed,' Diaz told THR in 2014. 'It feels like you walked right into the moment it was conceived.' Styne added, 'It's very much like those New York Italian places where everybody is family.' And Tana recalled in 2014 that Drew Barrymore's parents brought her to the restaurant and changed her diaper on the bar. 'We are still serving my original customers — and their children and grandchildren,' he said. The Italian restaurant in West Hollywood, with its white shutters, red booths and Chianti bottles hanging from the ceiling, has just 17 tables and a menu that has barely changed but has seen items named after famous fans including Coleman's 18 oz. New York steak, veal parmigiana Jerry Weintraub, veal cutlet a la George Clooney and shrimp scampi for late Lakers owner Jerry Buss. Tana also served as the inspiration behind Robert Urich's Dan Tanna character on the 1978-1981 Aaron Spelling TV series Vega$. Best of The Hollywood Reporter MTV VMAs: 27 of the Awards Show's Wildest Moments of All Time From 'Party in the U.S.A.' to 'Born in the U.S.A.': 20 of America's Most Patriotic (and Un-Patriotic) Musical Offerings Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Solve the daily Crossword
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‘Bridgerton' Production Designer Alison Gartshore Dissects That Beautiful Botanical Ball: 'It Pushed Everyone to the Limit'
Bridgerton production designer Alison Gartshore's goal for season three of the Netflix romance was to maintain the established visual world of the series while pushing new boundaries. One of the ways she and her team did that was with new, elaborate ballroom sets sprinkled throughout the season. She discusses with THR the botanical ball in episode six that required heaps of faux florals and a mechanical pop-up garden to wow the queen. For the Love of Romance Season three revolves around Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton's (Luke Newton) love story. Here, they dance in front of the opened floral pop-up garden that the team only had three days to complete, resulting in a dance of their own between departments. 'Every time the special effects people needed the box opening, we couldn't work on the outside to get it ready,' Gartshore says of its construction. 'We had to work with them and stand off when they wanted it open, and then when it was closed, we all jumped in with our paintbrushes and scalpels and glue, and it was just one of those things that we had to get done.' More from The Hollywood Reporter How 'Beatles '64' Remastered the Legendary Band's Live Performances for New Documentary How 'The Day of the Jackal' Team Brought a "Semi-Derelict" Border Building Back to Life: "This Was a Huge Undertaking" 'Awards Chatter' Pod: Seth Rogen on 'The Studio' and How It Was Shaped by 'Freaks and Geeks,' 'Superbad,' 'The Green Hornet' and the Sony Hack High Society Here, we see the closed centerpiece before it opens, surrounded by walls of paintings that Gartshore commissioned from the in-house illustrator. The team chose florals specifically from the 18th and 19th centuries, painted 12 different pieces and tiled them with variation, making sure they didn't distract from the actors' performances. The botanical ball was built on a stage at a film studio on the outskirts of London, while other balls this season were shot on location in and around the English capital. The Switch-Up From start to finish, setting up the ballroom for the botanical ball took 10 to 12 weeks. Originally, it was supposed to be called the butterfly ball, but showrunner Jess Brownell realized she had to leave the butterfly theme for later in the season. Explains Gartshore: 'It left us very little time, and then she dropped a bombshell that she also needed a moment of spectacle when the queen arrives.' And that's where the idea for the pop-up floral centerpiece was born. Finishing Touches 'We shoot a scene for roughly a week, so maintaining florals over that period of time in hot studio conditions wouldn't work,' explains Gartshore of the choice to use faux florals, of which Bridgerton has plenty that are stocked for reuse. Tucked into the corner of every ballroom set are the show's home economists who produce cakes that are, unfortunately, just props. Starting From Scratch The unfolding petal centerpiece was supposed to be straightforward, but 'of course, the simplest things are never easy to do,' jokes Gartshore. The structure, which took a week to assemble, was built out of painted paper petals that would unfold and reveal a whole garden inside, and the special effects team engineered all the mechanics to ensure that the leaves opened at the same time. 'There's no CGI. It's all practical effects,' she says. 'It pushed everyone to the limit.' This story first appeared in an August stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
