For much of HBO’s movie Mountainhead, the comedy in writer-director Jesse Armstrong’s script is particularly dark. Four tech moguls gathered for a bros’ weekend at a Rocky Mountain retreat owned by ...
While Armstrong was on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, he talked about not wanting to do another story of the uber-rich and powerful following “Succession,” but after reviewing Michael Lewis’ book ...
Whether he is dissecting corporate empires or dysfunctional families, Armstrong’s pen rarely misses its mark. Now, the mastermind of modern prestige television is shifting landscapes, quite literally, ...
Succession mastermind Jesse Armstrong returned to HBO this year with Mountainhead, a two-hour original movie about four tech bros that strategize taking over the world during a guys' weekend at one of ...
The tail end of May marks the two-year anniversary of the series finale of Succession airing on HBO. It's a fitting act of symmetry, then, that Mountainhead, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong's ...
Making TV is notoriously fast and furious, without the generous cushion of a large film production. But what if you were producing and editing a TV movie that would be the last project released in the ...
Disrupt the blood. Hack the hate. In Mountainhead, written, directed, and produced by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, these are just a few of the technocratisms bandied about by the four tech bros ...
After all, the HBO drama series, which centered on the children of media mogul Logan Roy fighting to take over his empire, earned 76 Emmy nominations throughout its four seasons. “When Jesse Armstrong ...
“Succession” fans rejoice. Jesse Armstrong has again gathered together a conclave of uber-wealthy megalomaniacs in a delicious satire. “Mountainhead,” which the “Succession” creator wrote and directed ...
The action unfolds at the titular mountain mansion newly built by Hugo (Jason Schwartzman), a millionaire hundreds of times over who is trying to figure out how to take his meditation app to the next ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2023’s Asteroid City, his most recent collaboration with Anderson (the two have worked together on ...
A fair number of people would name Succession, the HBO drama that was widely seen as a take on the Murdochs and won 19 primetime Emmys over the course of its four seasons. Now creator Jesse Armstrong ...