Ben Pearson
School
University Of Florida
Expertise
Hollywood History, Game Of Thrones, The Fast And Furious Franchise
- Ben is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
- He has produced and recorded hundreds of hours of podcasts devoted to film and television over the last decade.
- Ben also worked at Paramount Pictures, where he was able to gain valuable experience and first-hand insights into how the industry really operates.
Experience
Ben has been writing professionally about film and television since 2009. He has attended and covered the Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, AFI Fest, San Diego Comic-Con, CinemaCon, and other major events, and he's traveled to multiple countries to report on movies being filmed. He has interviewed hundreds of directors, writers, actors, and craftspeople over the course of his career. Ben has worked as a writer and editor at several movie websites, and joined /Film in 2017. He co-hosts the /Film Daily podcast.
Education
Ben graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in Telecommunications.
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Stories By Ben Pearson
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A Deadpool & Wolverine producer told us about an early idea for what Deadpool 3 could have been like before Hugh Jackman joined, and it's cracking us up.
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James Mangold's Logan is the best overall film in the X-Men franchise, but when it comes to the best X-Men movie, X2 walks away with it.
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Scarlett Johansson hasn't been given a ton of opportunities to have fun on screen, but her performance in Fly Me to the Moon proves she should do more comedies.
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The director of Oddity pieced together his supernatural horror film from several disparate ideas, not realizing the risk of that approach until post-production.
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Decades after filming the Gilligan's Island pilot, the director remained furious at the production manager who booked them on a janky flight to Hawaii.
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When the Duffer Brothers recruited Winona Ryder to play Joyce Byers in Stranger Things, the actor had one stipulation about taking the role.
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Michael Mann is known as an innovator, and the director may have just changed the game again with a new archive that takes users behind the scenes of Ferrari.
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Action maestro John Woo is back with the trailer for Peacock's The Killer, a remake of Woo's own 1989 classic. Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy lead the cast.
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One Twilight Zone episode about a cruise ship sailing across the ocean has a similar ending to the one in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Following Kurt Russell's 1991 firemen-centric thriller Backdraft, Universal Studios created a theme park attraction that let visitors feel the heat.
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Did Furious 7 unintentionally rip off an obscure 1986 action film written by John Carpenter called Black Moon Rising?
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Brooklyn director John Crowley and A24 present an R-rated rom-com starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. Check out the first We Live in Time trailer here.
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Twister director Jan de Bont says Warner Bros. didn't consider a sequel in the aftermath of the film's huge success. Listen to our full interview with him here.
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Dune: Part Two features a big scene that star Timothée Chalamet had been anticipating for years -- and surprisingly, it didn't involve riding a giant sandworm.
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Richie notices a fallen fork in The Bear season 3. If the Bradley Cooper movie Burnt is correct, that fork may be a clue about where the show goes from here.
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F director Mark Molloy tells us about working with Eddie Murphy on the long-awaited sequel, balancing nostalgia, and much more.
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Paramount and ABC got into a legal dispute over the rights to author Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character, resulting in a scrapped TV show version of Patriot Games.
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One of Richie's best recurring phrases in The Bear season 3 comes from a somewhat obscure interview conducted with a legendary filmmaker whom Richie admires.
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We all assume the Beverly Hills cop referenced in the title of Martin Brest's 1987 action comedy is Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley. But we've been wrong.
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Here's another banger trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's Trap, which has a serial killer (Josh Hartnett) locked in an arena he's desperately trying to escape.
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Early in director Howard Hawks' career, he learned a crucial lesson from the head of Fox about the tension of making movies for studios and audiences.
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A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski cites Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven as part of the reason food plays such an important role in his films.
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The fourth episode of The Bear season 3 finds Richie telling a story about a legendary director's trip to a Japanese Zen garden, which works on several levels.
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Ed Wynn, who voiced Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter and eventually played Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins, was the star of The Twilight Zone's second episode.
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Eli Wallach had one regret about playing the villain in John Sturges' 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven, and it involved Elmer Bernstein's masterful score.
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The Bikeriders director Jeff Nichols tells us that his Alien Nation remake is still in the works, but at a different studio and with a different title.
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Before Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz pitched the comedy series to the folks at CBS, he pitched it to a gas station attendant - theme song and all.