Mark Mylod: Last News

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large This is it! This year’s Emmy voting is over, ending what was a rather muted Phase 2. We’ve noted the limited number of Phase 2 FYC events due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes (as well as the inability of nominated talent to participate in any press that they hadn’t already completed pre-strike).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Mark Mylod is still kicking himself over something in Season 4 of “Succession.” The series’ final installment has been universally lauded, and the general consensus is that the HBO drama stuck the landing. But for Mylod, the executive producer/director who is once again Emmy nominated, he can’t stop thinking about something — and he won’t reveal what it is just yet. “I will do the kicking myself thing.

Emmy-winning producer and director Mark Mylod has been with Succession for all four seasons, as has composer Nicholas Britell, who won an Emmy for the iconic theme of the series marking the three-time Oscar nominee’s first TV show. However, it was the stunner of a Episode 3 in the series’ final season, “Connor’s Wedding,” that was unlike anything they had tackled before on the show, and it presented unique challenges.

Sacha Baron Cohen is reportedly reviving his character Ali G for a new feature film.According to Hollywood insider Daniel Richtman (via World Of Reel), Cohen has been secretly working on a new movie which sees him return to his early breakout character.This would be the second Ali G film following 2002’s Ali G Indahouse, directed by Mark Mylod. Cohen originally played the character on Channel 4 comedy series The 11 O’Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, which aired from 2000 to 2004.In 2021, Cohen reprised the character for a string of stand-up shows.

Succession actor Sarah Snook has spoken about one scene that was cut from the hit show’s finale. Spoilers below.In season four, episode 10 of the HBO drama, titled ‘With Open Eyes’, the show reaches a dramatic climax when the Roy siblings – Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv – participate in a board vote which will determine the leadership and future of Waystar Royco.Moments before Snook’s character, Shiv, is about to vote for her brother Kendall as the new CEO and her late father’s successor, she gets cold feet and exits the room mid-meeting.An explosive argument with the siblings ensues, during which she tells her brother: “I love you, but I can’t fucking stomach you.” She also tells Kendall that she can’t vote for him because he’s killed someone, referring to the moment in the season one finale when he gets into a car accident with a waiter from Shiv’s wedding.Shiv leaves the confrontation and votes against her brother, which means that Lukas Matsson’s (Alexander Skarsgård) GoJo deal goes ahead and Shiv’s husband Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) becomes the new CEO.In a new interview with Variety, Snook revealed one extra scene was filmed twice that depicted her character returning to the conference room to cast her vote, rather than it lingering on the two brothers after the argument becomes physical.She explained: “The way that [director] Mark Mylod runs the scenes, he will let it run.

would be Waystar Royco’s new CEO in the wake of the death of Logan Roy (Brian Cox). But the highly acclaimed series almost continued.In a new interview in Variety, “Succession” star Kieran Culkin tells fellow actor and longtime friend Claire Danes that the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, considered doing additional seasons. He “pitched an amazing fifth season and then another and another,” seemingly off the top of his head, Culkin said of Armstrong.

Editor’s note: These interview was done outside of the FYC event as there was no cast or creatives panel as a part of the event.

Succession executive producer Mark Mylod has shared the moment when Shiv (Sarah Snook) decided to turn against Kendall (Jeremy Strong) in the finale.In the final episode titled With Open Eyes, Shiv and Roman (Kieran Culkin) initially decide to back their brother Kendall in his bid to become the next CEO of Waystar Royco – a move which would block the takeover deal from GoJo founder Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård).At the boardroom meeting, however, Shiv decides against voting for Kendall in the final hour, which sparks an explosive argument between the siblings.Asked on the official Succession podcast about when he believes Shiv starts to doubt backing Kendall, Mylod, who directed the episode, said: “I suppose it’s when Kendall sits down at his dad’s desk, when they meet with Stewy (Arian Moayed) before going down to the final board meeting. The reality of seeing him there that suddenly made it real, that is the future – him sat there in that insufferable way from her point of view – that’s when I think the denial started to crack.“And then seeing the cronyism with Stewy and seeing how she might be sidelined and again, just seeing his arrogance in the board meeting itself, accumulatively.”Mylod also shared that Shiv’s pivot was originally going to be less telegraphed.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers from “With Open Eyes,” the series finale of HBO’s “Succession,” now streaming on Max. The end of “Succession” was filmed on the coldest day of the year. “The windchill was minus-something in Fahrenheit, and it was absolute purgatory to shoot,” says Mark Mylod, the director and executive producer who has steered many of “Succession’s” greatest episodes. “Jeremy initially was feeling nothing but cold.” Mylod, who has now helmed all four season finales of the HBO juggernaut, was worried that the last scene — with Jeremy Strong’s Kendall hopelessly walking through Battery Park, and Logan’s leftover bodyguard Colin trailing behind — didn’t feel “weighty enough.”

Succession went out at the top of its game.

Amid the HBO Max rebrand, Succession is ending after four seasons on the premium cable network. The Roy family is at odds with each other and the drama is set to start at 9 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. PT on HBO.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor HBO’s “Succession” series finale will be 90 minutes long, according to one of the key members of its creative team. Variety confirmed. “It’s 90 minutes,” Emmy winning composer Nicholas Britell said. “It’s a huge episode — like a movie.” The episode will be directed by “Succession” executive producer Mark Mylod, and will air on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, May 28. While little else is known about what to expect, Variety previously reported in a cover story with HBO chief Casey Bloys that the network is not developing any spinoffs.

Succession hit another audience milestone this week.

SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses gargantuan plot developments in “Connor’s Wedding,” Season 4, Episode 3 of “Succession,” now streaming on HBO Max. Jeremy Strong is speaking out for the first time about last week’s shocking “Succession” death. The star, who plays Kendall Roy on the HBO series, was front and center in the episode “Connor’s Wedding,” written by “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong, which featured the demise of family patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox). “It went through my heart, not in my mind,” Strong told Variety. “What I mean is it went it didn’t go through my mind as much as I found it a heartbreaking thing to read and to experience when we were making it.”

HBO‘s Succession has done the unthinkable, finally pulling the trigger on a major plot point that will change the course of the show’s remaining episodes. Now, a producer and writer on the show has opened up about how they managed to keep the plot twist from leaking. Warning: major spoilers ahead.Following the shocking death of Logan Roy in season four, episode three, Succession writer and longtime producer Georgia Pritchett has taken to Twitter to reveal how the show’s creative team used code words when planning Logan’s death to prevent it from leaking.Pritchett wrote: “This was a tough secret to keep! We decided it in the #Succession writers’ room in Jan 22.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses gargantuan plot developments in “Connor’s Wedding,” Season 4, Episode 3 of “Succession,” now streaming on HBO Max. Every “Succession” viewer will remember where they were the night “Connor’s Wedding” aired. The third episode of the Emmy-winning drama’s fourth and final season killed off Logan Roy (Brian Cox), a shocking but inevitable twist that sends the show hurdling towards its endgame. Georgia Pritchett, a longtime producer and writer on “Succession,” revealed on Twitter that the creative team used an HBO-friendly code word when planning Logan’s death so that it would not leak to the public ahead of time.

Succession spoilers ahead! Click away if you’re not up to date with Season 4.

Selome Hailu The Roy family’s lowest lows make for “Succession’s” highest highs. The Jesse Armstrong-created drama hit a series high of 2.5 million viewers on Sunday night, when HBO aired Episode 3 of the fourth and final season. The ratings bump was certainly helped along by the episode’s shocking twist, which will dramatically impact the way the series ends. (Read Variety‘s recap here.) Provided by Warner Bros. Discovery, that figure represents a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of the audience that tuned into the episode live on HBO’s cable channel and WBD’s own data regarding streams on HBO Max through the night.

Succession Season 4 has set another audience record with its stunning third episode.

Kate Aurthur editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview discusses gargantuan plot developments in “Connor’s Wedding,” Season 4, Episode 3 of “Succession,” now streaming on HBO Max. Many devotees of “Succession” assumed that sometime during its final season, the show’s patriarch Logan Roy — a businessman of unparalleled brilliance, and a churlish father, who loves his children (despite all evidence to the contrary) — would die. After all, Logan, played by Brian Cox, had a stroke in the 2018 series premiere of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama, and his ill-health has been an ongoing concern. But Logan dying in Episode 3?! A total shock to “Succession” nation.

Spoiler warning for Succession season 4, episode three, “Connor’s Wedding,” written by creator Jesse Armstrong and directed by Mark Mylod.