Exclusive: Smithsonian Channel has landed itself a top gun.
Jay Ellis, who plays Lieutenant Reuben Fitch in the Tom Cruise hit Top Gun: Maverick, has signed on to host the second season of the Paramount Global-owned network’s unscripted series How Did They Build That?
The ten-part series explores some of the most incredible feats of engineering from around the world. It will be fronted by Ellis, who also starred in HBO’s Insecure.
The move marks a step up for the docuseries, which did not have a host in its first season.
Season two will continue to cover architectural wonders from all over the world but will have an emphasis on American stories and deconstruct some of the United States’ most amazing structures, including Hearst Tower, Little Island, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Denver Art Museum, Evergreen Point 520 Floating Bridge
International stories include La Tete...
Jay Ellis, who plays Lieutenant Reuben Fitch in the Tom Cruise hit Top Gun: Maverick, has signed on to host the second season of the Paramount Global-owned network’s unscripted series How Did They Build That?
The ten-part series explores some of the most incredible feats of engineering from around the world. It will be fronted by Ellis, who also starred in HBO’s Insecure.
The move marks a step up for the docuseries, which did not have a host in its first season.
Season two will continue to cover architectural wonders from all over the world but will have an emphasis on American stories and deconstruct some of the United States’ most amazing structures, including Hearst Tower, Little Island, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Denver Art Museum, Evergreen Point 520 Floating Bridge
International stories include La Tete...
- 6/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Ever since its inception as the mysterious 1952, Brad Bird’s blockbuster Tomorrowland has been a project shrouded in mystery. Exactly what genre does it belong to? And, perhaps more intriguing, what connection does it hold to Walt Disney? Granted, a handful of answers were revealed following last week’s international trailer, though Stitch Kingdom has uncovered a bevy of new plot details that essentially dot the I’s and cross the T’s.
For a full, spoiler-laden rundown, you can head on over to their site. Here, we cherry-picked two of the most prominent tidbits, which delve into George Clooney’s character and the legacy behind the titular utopia.
George Clooney describes his character Frank as “a disenchanted grump who was a bit of a dreamer as a young boy, a smart little scientist kid. Young Frank goes to a place that he thinks is the greatest in the universe...
For a full, spoiler-laden rundown, you can head on over to their site. Here, we cherry-picked two of the most prominent tidbits, which delve into George Clooney’s character and the legacy behind the titular utopia.
George Clooney describes his character Frank as “a disenchanted grump who was a bit of a dreamer as a young boy, a smart little scientist kid. Young Frank goes to a place that he thinks is the greatest in the universe...
- 4/6/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Propose a large, white, disclike building and someone will always call it a “spaceship.” Apple’s planned headquarters, the renovated Soldier Field, the Beijing Opera House, and almost anything by Zaha Hadid or Santiago Calatrava have all reminded scoffers of a nonexistent typology, the galactic passenger vessel. In the case of the Museum of Narrative Art on Chicago’s lakefront, the nickname makes more sense, since the man who would fund, build, and fill it with his personal collection is George Lucas, the emperor of Star Wars. Actually, the design that Lucas commissioned from the Beijing-based Mad Architects is utterly earthbound, a gooey, mountainous slug of a building with two squinty windows and a silvery halo, making it look like a sainted Jabba the Hut.Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel fought hard to wrest Lucas’s museum from San Francisco, offering him a highly visible 17-acre site right next to Soldier Field.
- 11/6/2014
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
Woody Allen, Rio is calling. In a recent interview, Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes made it clear that he wants the "Blue Jasmine" director to make his next film in Brazil's second-largest sprawling metropolis: "I'll pay 100% of the production. I'll pay whatever it takes to get him to come film here." Paes has already made a number of attempts to lure Allen to his city, saying in the interview that he contacted Allen's sister and long-time producer Letty Aronson, and sent the director a message via Spanish architect and Allen's NY neighbor Santiago Calatrava. But Brazil isn't the only country hoping for its close-up in a Woody Allen film. Recently he revealed that Stockholm, Sweden made a similar offer; at the moment, Allen's declined, saying he'd need a good inspiration to incorporate the city and surrounding area.Allen and Aronson have a cool set-up as independents who remain in complete control of their films.
- 8/19/2013
- by Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is tearing up the box office in limited release, bringing in $2.3 million this weekend from only 229 theaters. Now he's out in Paris with Colin Firth and Emma Stone filming his next picture (see set pictures here and here) while Rio de Janerio mayor Eduardo Paes has taken Allen's comment about Brazil being a great place to tell a story and is offering to fully fun the film. Speaking with O Globe (via The Playlist), Paes said, "I'll pay 100% of the production. I'll pay whatever it takes to get him to come film here... I so want him to come. I've already done all kinds of things. I talked to his sister, I sent him a message through Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who is his neighbor in New York." Of course, it isn't confirmed Allen actually has a story to tell in Brazil, at least not yet,...
- 8/19/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
">New York City was popping with A-list gala events on Thursday, April 29, and Gw was on the horns of a dilemma. Would the night be spent with “Gwynnie” (Gwyneth Paltrow) at the Frick Museum’s celebration for Chopard’s 75th Anniversary? Would it be spent with “Jon B.J.” (Jon Bon Jovi) at the 4th annual Dkms Linked for Leukemia gala at Cipriani 42nd Street? Or would it be spent with “S.J.P.” (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the opening night of the New Choreography and Music Festival of the New York City Ballet? As a huge fan of ballet, Gw could not resist spending the evening at the David Koch Theater. There could not have been a more revelatory way for Ballet Master-in-Chief Peter Martins to herald his company’s 50th anniversary than with world premiere of two new works—Why Am I Not Where You Are, choreographed by Benjamin Millepied,...
- 5/3/2010
- Vanity Fair
Corps de ballet, Namouna, courtesy NYC Ballet, (C) Paul Kolnik The Architecture of Dance Festival begins this week at the New York City Ballet. Lots of new dancing and new music to take your mind off oil spills and immigration. It doesn't take very long to realize you are in the presence of something very special when the curtain goes up on Namouna, A Grand Divertissement by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky with music from a relatively unheralded 19th century romantic work by composer Edouard Lalo. In theory, the ballets created for this Architecture of Dance festival -- with seven new ballets and four commissioned scores -- are thematically linked by stage sets by architect Santiago Calatrava, but the little net circle skirts that some of the dancers wore are here a stand-in for the arches and globes of his...
- 5/3/2010
- by Patricia Zohn
- Huffington Post
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by Linda Tischler (additional reporting by Zachary Wilson)
Photo by Tim Bies
1. Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The New York-based firm transformed public space in Manhattan last year with the renovation of Alice Tully Hall, the master plan for the redevelopment of Lincoln Center, and the opening of the High Line, a collaboration with Field Operations. DS+R beat out several high-profile architects for its next project, Rio de Janeiro's $31 million Museum of Image and Sound, on Copacabana Beach. Top 50: No. 32
2. Mvrdv
Netherlands-based Mvrdv has been preaching radical theories of vertical living for years, and they're now beginning to catch on. Current projects include the Rotterdam Market Hall, which will house more than 200 apartments and a large public market; the firm's daring Gwanggyo Power Center, a set of hill-like structures for 77,000 residents in South Korea, is in the final planning stages. Top 50: No. 44
3. SHoP Architects
Winners of the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt award for design,...
by Linda Tischler (additional reporting by Zachary Wilson)
Photo by Tim Bies
1. Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The New York-based firm transformed public space in Manhattan last year with the renovation of Alice Tully Hall, the master plan for the redevelopment of Lincoln Center, and the opening of the High Line, a collaboration with Field Operations. DS+R beat out several high-profile architects for its next project, Rio de Janeiro's $31 million Museum of Image and Sound, on Copacabana Beach. Top 50: No. 32
2. Mvrdv
Netherlands-based Mvrdv has been preaching radical theories of vertical living for years, and they're now beginning to catch on. Current projects include the Rotterdam Market Hall, which will house more than 200 apartments and a large public market; the firm's daring Gwanggyo Power Center, a set of hill-like structures for 77,000 residents in South Korea, is in the final planning stages. Top 50: No. 44
3. SHoP Architects
Winners of the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt award for design,...
- 3/1/2010
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
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