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Jack Black and Seth Rogen attended a special screening of The Super Mario Bros. Movie in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Black was photographed jokingly caressing Rogen, who voices Donkey Kong, at the Regal LA Live event. The duo was all smiles as they were joined by fellow actors Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day and others, who struck some humorous poses on the red carpet.

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Black attended the event wearing an incredible suit inspired by his character, Browser, which featured green shells and spikes on the back and flames on the sleeves and pant legs. The 53-year-old actor seemed like he absolutely loved his outfit and later took to Instagram to thank costume designer Dayna Pink for the Mario Kart-themed look.

Black’s social media post received a lot of love from friends and followers, including fellow actor and stuntman Johnny Knoxville who commented “Hotter than a two-peckered owl!

HBO’s Lovecraft Country may take place in 1950s Jim Crow America, but the story didn’t just stay in one setting, which gave costume designer Dayna Pink a lot to work with. So much so that Pink isn’t nominated in a period costume category, instead she is nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes category.

The series follows Atticus (Jonathan Majors) as searches for his missing father with his friend Leti (Jurnee Smollett) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance). The episode for which Pink is nominated, “I Am.”, follows Atticus’s Aunt Hippolyta (Aunjanue Ellis) as she travels through infinite realities, which really highlights the sci-fi/fantasy costume designs.

Deadline: What were your initial thoughts on the costume design for the series?

Dayna Pink: What was super exciting to me about the show in general was that it seemed to me that I...

Gabriele Binder was “so happy to be part of this group” that we assembled for our “Meet the Btl Experts” panel of Emmy-contending costume designers, who joined us to discuss their work, inspirations, challenges, and more. Binder is nominated for Best Period Costumes for “The Queen’s Gambit,” while Dayna Pink (“Lovecraft Country”) and Christopher Hargadon (“The Umbrella Academy”) vie for Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes and Zaldy (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”) hopes to win a juried award for Best Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program. The four artists represent “absolutely different imaginations, different universes.” Watch our group discussion above, and watch each person’s individual chat by clicking on each name.

“You’re kind of born with it, and you carry it through your life, and it is kind of an honor that other people recognize it, especially nowadays,” Hargadon adds about working in costume design. And it’s not just a craft.

“As sad as I am not to do more of it, it doesn’t take anything away from the experience that we all had, which was different than anything I’ve done before,” says costume designer Dayna Pink about her work on “Lovecraft Country,” which won’t be returning for a second season but earned 18 Emmy nominations including Best Drama Series and one for Pink’s creative efforts. The show was “a real gift to me as an artist and as a person … I can’t be sad about that.” We talked to Pink as part of our “Meet the Btl Experts” panel with Emmy-nominated costume designers. Watch our interview above.

Pink is up for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costumes for the episode “I Am,” in which Hippolyta (Best Drama Supporting Actress nominee Aunjanue Ellis) travels through time, requiring Pink to design looks for Josephine Baker and her Parisian dancers, the Dahomey Amazons of West Africa,...

Four top TV costume designers who are nominated for Emmys shared the secrets of their success and their craft in this special group roundtable discussion moderated by Gold Derby senior editor Daniel Montgomery. Included in this event, which was part of our “Meet the Btl Experts” series, were:

“Lovecraft Country”: Dayna Pink

Synopsis: A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

“The Queen’s Gambit”: Gabriele Binder/

Synopsis: Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race”: Zaldy

Synopsis: RuPaul and a team of judges search for America’s next drag superstar.

“The Umbrella Academy”: Christopher Hargadon

Synopsis: A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world.

Four top costume designers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Btl Experts” Q&a event with 2021 Emmy nominees. Each person will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Thursday, August 5, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery and a group chat with Daniel and all of the group together.

RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.

This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 Emmy nominees:

“Lovecraft Country”: Dayna Pink

Synopsis: A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

“The Queen’s Gambit”: Gabriele Binder...

“Lovecraft Country,” which just reaped a whopping 18 Emmy nominations, tells the story of a Korean War veteran (Jonathan Majors) in the 1950s who returns home to Chicago and quickly finds himself embroiled in a supernatural mystery involving monsters, witchcraft, and his own magical lineage. We talked to multiple cast and crew members from the drama series who earned Emmy nominations. Scroll down and follow the links to watch each of our in-depth chats.

The series was created by Misha Green (“Underground”) based on a novel by Matt Ruff, and it boasts more heavy-hitters behind the camera. Its executive producers include J.J. Abrams, who won a couple of Emmys for directing and producing “Lost” in addition to other TV credits including “Felicity” and “Alias” and movie credits like “Star Trek,” “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” and “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” Fellow executive producer Jordan Peele...

This story about “Lovecraft Country” first appeared in the Comedy & Drama Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

Even in a television landscape that includes close to 500 scripted series, HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” might cross more genres and eras than any other. A hearty blend of science fiction, drama, horror, romance, revisionist history and even a modicum of actual biography, this phalanx of styles would prove daunting to even the most seasoned of designers. But under the mindful guidance of showrunner Misha Green, production designer Kalina Ivanov and costume designer Dayna Pink found a way to transform it into one cohesive visual universe.

“I think that was part of the draw,” Pink said. “What if you got to add your own style to something that already exists? It gave us room to be incredibly creative.” The creativity included more than 160 sets on five soundstages and a backlot, and 4,500 costumes which,...

Jurnee Smollett has earned some of the best notices of her career for Lovecraft Country, HBO’s hit supernatural limited series. She stars as Letitia ‘Leti’ Lewis, a young African-American woman drawn into an occult odyssey through the segregated and virulently racist America of the 1950s. Malevolent white people, some involved in strange, mystical activities, and bloodthirsty beasts pursue Leti and her traveling companions, Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) and Montrose Freeman (Michael K. Williams), across 10 episodes of supercharged action. HBO may order a second season, which would once again put Leti through the wringer.

Deadline: What was your reaction when you first read the script?

Jurnee Smollett: Number one, after reading it, I lost sleep. I felt such an overwhelming desire to play Leti. There was such a fear that there would be anyone but me playing that. And I don’t really have that sort of reaction usually to roles.

“I think the first thing that [showrunner Misha Green] said to us was that she wanted gothic R&b, and I don’t think there had been a genre exactly like gothic R&b,” remembers “Lovecraft Country” composer Laura Karpman about the unique sound she and her co-composer Raphael Saadiq were tasked to create for the unique HBO drama. Watch our exclusive video interview with Karpman above.

“Lovecraft Country” is set in 1950s Chicago, where a Black family must contend against Jim Crow-era racism while also trying to unravel a supernatural mystery. But the 10-episode first season spans a lot more than that. “Every single episode has its own kind of unique cinematic feel,” Karpman explains. That includes a haunted house episode, a “Raiders of the Lost Ark”-style adventure episode, and a sci-fi time travel episode. “They all have their own profiles. Although, of course, there are themes and ideas...

“The story has many elements of filmmaking and storytelling that matches with my timeline as a filmmaker about race, about gender, about sexuality, about, you know, being on the margins,” says Cheryl Dunye about the “Lovecraft Country” episode “Strange Case,” which she directed. This season she also helmed an episode of the FX documentary series “Pride,” about the fight for LGBT rights throughout the 20th century. Watch our exclusive video interview with Dunye above.

Marginalization is a major theme in “Lovecraft Country,” which explores anti-Black racism in 1950s America through the lens of supernatural horror. And Dunye’s episode was an especially unique exploration of that subject, following Ruby (Wunmi Musaku) after magic gives her the opportunity to experience the world as a white woman. Those fantasy elements “allowed me to elevate the storytelling” and “allowed me to put another layer on the messages that I wanted to already speak.

“The idea as a costume designer of being able to go to all these different places and periods and times was so rich,” says Dayna Pink about her work on HBO’s “Lovecraft Country.” “It’s not like repeating yourself over and over again. You’re just reinventing all these different things, so that was a really great challenge for us and it just kept us on our toes the whole time.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Pink above.

“Lovecraft Country” tells the story of a young African-American man in the 1950s (Jonathan Majors) whose father goes missing. But that’s just the starting point for a mystery full of horrors both supernatural and mundane as he unravels his family history while contending with the everyday monsters of American racism during the Jim Crow era. All the while it weaves elements of sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure into its complex narrative.

Nominees for the 23rd annual Costume Designer Guild Awards (to be livestreamed April 13 on Twitter @CostumeAwards at 5:30 pm Pt / 8:30 pm Et) include Oscar frontrunner “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and other period contenders “Emma,” “Mank,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” and “One Night in Miami.”

Contemporary nods went to “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Promising Young Woman,” and “The Prom.” And the sci-fi/fantasy nominees included “Dolittle,” “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey,” “Mulan,” “Pinocchio,” and “Wonder Woman 1984.”

Netflix was the big winner with five nominations, followed by Warner Bros. and Universal/Focus Features with three. Disney scored with “Mulan,” Amazon with “One Night in Miami,” Lionsgate with “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” and Roadside Attractions with “Pinocchio.”

And it’s a great display of diversity with five Black-themed films.

The costume designers responsible for the frocks in “Emma.,” the suits in “Mank” and the ’70s duds in “Judas and the Black Messiah” have been nominated for the 23rd annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, the guild announced on Thursday.

Those three films will be competing against “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “One Night in Miami” in the Cdga’s Excellence in Period Film category, one of three feature-film categories honored by the guild.

In the Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film category, the nominees are “Dolittle,” “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey,” “Mulan,” “Pinocchio” and “Wonder Woman 1984.” The Excellence in Contemporary Film nominees are “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Birds of Prey,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Prom.”

Television nominees include “The Mandalorian,” “Snowpiercer,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “I May Destroy You,” “Emily in Paris,” “Bridgerton,” “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit.”

In recent years,...

The Costume Designers Guild has stitched together the nominees for its 23rd annual CDG Awards for film, TV and shortform. Winners in the eight categories will be announced during the virtual trophy show on Tuesday, April 13, which be streamed on Twitter for the first time.

Read the full list of nominees below.

The designers behind Dolittle, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Mulan, Pinocchio and Wonder Woman 1984 will vie for the Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film nod.

The Contemporary Film hopefuls are Barb and Star Go to Del Mar, Birds of Prey, Da 5 Bloods, Promising Young Woman and The Prom.

Up for the Period Film trophy are Emma, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank and One Night in Miami.

“I would like to congratulate all of the nominees of the 23rd Costume Designers Guild Awards,” said Salvador Perez, President of the guild, IATSE Local 892. “We...

Ann Roth is on her way to making Oscar history as the oldest best costume design nominee after receiving a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination for her work on “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

The Cdga (Costume Designers Guild Awards) have announced their nominations for the 23rd CDGAs. Also recognized were Francine Jamison Tanchuck for “One Night in Miami” and Charlese Antoinette Jones for “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

Costume designer Bina Daigeler landed a double nomination for her work on the FX series, “Mrs. America,” and “Mulan” was also recognized. Other designers to receive guild nominations were Trish Summerville for “Mank” and “Emma’s” Alexandra Byrne.

For the first time in Cdga history, the annual awards show will be livestreamed for fans worldwide exclusively on Twitter @CostumeAwards at 5:30pm Pt / 8:30pm Et. This year’s host, presenters and honorees will be announced in the coming weeks.

“I would...

Thanks to one simple shirt, Lovecraft Country's dreamy wardrobe was born. If you have been watched Misha Green's supernatural horror series on HBO, you know the show is no casual watch. The anthology series, which hones in on the supernatural experiences of a Black family in 1950s Jim Crow America, can be exciting, moving, puzzling and downright horrifying with each passing twist and turn. But, there is something about the show that won't make you want to cover your eyes—and that's the clothes. With Dayna Pink at the helm of the costume design, the show—which just nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for Best Television Series-Drama—visually transports us back...

The standard black tuxedo men donned to awards shows for decades is quickly becoming an outmoded uniform. From bold colors, to striking textures, to novel silhouettes, men’s awards show looks are now just as fashion-forward as women’s.

“It was a slow evolution and then a really quick evolution,” says Ilaria Urbinati, who styles Rami Malek, Bradley Cooper and John Krasinski. “Ten years ago when ‘Mad Men’ first came out, that had a big influence. And then I did that line of suiting with Albert Hammond Jr. that was all color, which nobody was doing. And then wardrobe designer Dayna Pink bought the suits to put on Ryan Gosling for ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ That movie was such a revolution for menswear, because it was all about giving Steve Carell a makeover and how, if you dress for the life you want, then you’ll get the life.”

This awards season,...

Hollywood, Calif. – Hailed as “fun, action-packed and exciting”, director Travis Knight’s thrilling new film Bumblebee lands on Digital March 19, 2019 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD April 2 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Boasting an impressive 93% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Bumblebee is filled with “personality, wit [and] imagination”. The Digital*, 4K Ultra HD, and Blu-ray releases are packed with over an hour of exciting special features, including an all-new Bumblebee motion comic following the beloved Autobot on his next adventure. Plus, check out deleted and extended scenes you didn’t see in theaters, including the original opening of the movie, enjoy hilarious outtakes, and see G1 (Generation 1) Transformers robots on Cybertron through the eyes of Bumblebee with exciting Bee Vision.

The perfect gift this Easter, Bumblebee on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack or Blu-ray Combo Pack also includes an exclusive printed version of the new motion comic featuring Bumblebee...

A swimsuit is to Baywatch, as a national flag is to a country.   The red-hot bathing suit has become an iconic identifier of the popular '90s TV series that one only need to see a mere flash of it to remember Pamela Anderson running on the beach or David Hasselhoff doing things only The Hoff could do.  So, when it came to the 2017 reboot of the classic TV show, how did costume designer Dayna Pink modernize such a recognizable piece without losing its original essence? This conundrum is exactly why the pro, who also worked on Crazy, Stupid, Love. and Hot Tub Time Machine, took the job. "That bathing suit is so iconic. What costume designer wouldn't do it?" said the pro, who had to...

Thanks to Alexandra Daddario and Ilfenesh Hadera, we now know what Zac Efron's abs feel like!

Et caught up with the Baywatch stars at Marie Claire's Fresh Faces fête at the Doheny Room in West Hollywood, California, on Friday, where they marveled over their co-star's insanely hot bod.

Watch: Zac Efron Is Hotter Than Ever in 'Men's Fitness' Magazine -- See the Pics!

"Yes! I actually did [touch them]," cover girl Daddario gushed, when asked if she's ever come up close and personal with Efron's abdominals. "Early on, I had to do a scene where I had to flirt with him and touch his waist."

"It was sort of like a -- I wasn't prepared. It was like an animalistic shock went through me," she continued. "I don't know, he's like not human. He's like something Michelangelo carved. I've never seen a man that looks like him. It's incredible."

Incredible, indeed!

And while Hadera...

Sony Pictures announced today that it has scheduled the Will Smith drama Concussion for a Christmas Day release. The film is opening at a prime time, not only because of the holiday movie season but also just as the NFL will be preparing for the playoffs. Concussion follows Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of football-related brain trauma in a pro player and fought to bring awareness to the public. In his search for the truth, Omalu, a total outsider to pro football, takes on the sports industry’s status quo. His studies on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (Cte), prompted the NFL to take brain-related injuries seriously. Cte was cited in the suicides of former NFL stars Junior Seau and Dave Duerson. Deadline announced Smith’s attachment to the film back in June.

Written and directed by Peter Landesman (Parkland), Concussion is based on the GQ...

Just before we head into the holidays, check out the latest trailer for the sexy and slick heist movie starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, Focus.

Alongside this great new trailer Warner Bros. Pictures has released 3 new character posters.

“It’s about distraction. It’s about focus. The brain is slow and it can’t multitask.

Tap him here, take from there.”

Will Smith stars as Nicky, a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he’s teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame—now an accomplished femme fatale—shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky’s latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop…and the consummate con man off his game.

We cannot cover every costume related story here at Clothes on Film, or even most until we get an army of writers and a faster internet connection. So just in case we have missed anything important here is a head count of costume design articles from around the web this week. Mad Men is tapering off slightly, but there is more and more Great Gatsby out there every day.

The Great Gatsby (1974)

Costume designer May Routh (The Man Who Fell to Earth, being There) remembers when the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby was released, “For one scene the director decided the extras would all jump in a fountain but they were all wearing original pieces from the Twenties. The clothes were ruined and the loss led, inevitably, to an expensive lawsuit.”

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the musical looks quite a lot like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the movie.

In theaters Friday, April 20, Zac Efron stars with Taylor Schilling and Blythe Danner in the romantic drama The Lucky One, directed by Academy Award®-nominated writer/director Scott Hicks (“Shine”), based on Nicholas Sparks’ bestseller The Lucky One.

U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive.a photograph he found of a woman he doesn’t even know. Discovering her name is Beth (Schilling) and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.

Warner Bros Pictures and Wamg invite you to enter for your chance to win passes to the advance screening of The Lucky One.

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This insightful comedy about the hopelessness of love is every inch a ‘fashion film’, both in terms of narrative and thanks to costume designer Dayna Pink’s enviable parade of menswear trends and elegant suiting.

Crazy, Stupid, Love (directed by Glenn Ficara and John Requa) stars Steve Carell as Cal Weaver, a middle aged man who has forgotten how to be a man and Ryan Gosling as Jacob Palmer, a bar culture player who helps Cal regain his self respect. Clothes in the film are prioritised over the man. They denote what we wear reflects how we evolve. Or in the case of Cal during the very first scene, how we devolve and are generally the last to notice. As the opening cuts from one couple playing footsie to another,...

Director: Steve Pink Writer: Josh Heald, Sean Anders Release Date: August 30 2010 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Number of discs: 1 Region: 2 Price: From £11.93 Running Time: 95 mins Certificate: 15 Starring: John Cusack, Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, Collette Wolfe Until 2012, Cusack could do no wrong – Hot Tub Time Machine sees his return to form, revisiting the 80s classics that shaped his early career in this enjoyable celebration of all things 80s. After hedonistic Lou (Rob Corddry) nearly commits suicide his long-suffering friends, Adam (John Cusack) and Nick (Craig Robinson) reluctantly decide to take him away on holiday, revisiting a favorite destination of their youth with Adam’s nephew, Jacob (Clark Duke). Much to their disappointment Kodiak Valley ski resort is no longer a party town, the bell boy is now one armed and furious and their hot tub contains a rotting animal corpse.

Chicago – The most spoiler-named film since “Snakes on a Plane” delivers exactly what it promises with its goofy title. When you go into something like “Avatar” or “The White Ribbon,” you may not know what to expect, but there’s no surprise when a film calls itself “Hot Tub Time Machine.” It’s not a perfect comedy but it’s a heck of a lot closer than most of its recent genre peers and should satisfy those wanting to take an HD dip.

Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0

A parody and ode to ’80s pop culture, “Hot Tub Time Machine” is reminiscent of comedies of a quarter-century ago like “Weird Science” or “Better Off Dead” with stars of the period like John Cusack, Chevy Case, and Crispin Glover, a soundtrack that uses Motley Crue liberally, and a goofy tone that was more common in the era of the brat pack. In other words,...

Something a bit different from our standard we liked it/didn’t like it review; here’s some style lessons learnt from Hot Tub Time Machine. Plus whether we liked it or not.

Aviators are cool whenever:

When loser gang Adam (John Cusack), Jacob (Clarke Duke), Nick (Craig Robinson) and Lou (Rob Corddry) transport back to Kodiak Valley Ski Resort circa 1986, aviator sunglasses are among the first sartorial giveaways on display. Lots of variations too, the standard wire frame with tints as popularised by Ray Ban, plus a bright red ‘shutter’ pair seen most recently on Kanye West.

The closest Hot Tub Time Machine has to an out and out villain, Lou’s nemesis Blaine (Sebastian Stan) poses on piste as though he is the first person ever to think of wearing aviators outside of a fighter plane. Yet with this constrained setting, just the ski resort really, costumes are...

In Hot Tub Time Machine, in theaters Friday, three men (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson) and a nephew (Clark Duke) are transported back to 1986. That means costume designer Dayna Pink got to explore what to her was the best time in fashion: "Crazy cuckoo colors.... shoulder pads, bright, bright leggings, and bikinis and boobs!" In the exclusive featurette below, Pink and the cast examine the authenticity on set. As in the movie, Corddry steals the show*: "I actually immediately start pining for old girlfriends," he says about being surrounded by big-haired extras. "Luckily, these are tight pants...