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How Director Tom McCarthy Got 'Spotlight' Right
Despite a shrinking budget and difficult subject matter, director Tom McCarthy pulled together a stellar ensemble including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams to portray the unglamorous work of investigative reporting for his new movie Spotlight.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenTom McCarthy, the director and co-writer of Spotlight, is a true multi-hyphenate. He's an actor who appeared in Meet the Parents and the HBO series, The Wire. McCarthy's breakthrough as a director came when he made the 2003 film The Station Agent, which he also wrote. He followed that with two more well-received films, The Visitor and Win-Win. McCarthy tells us how Spotlight went from non-starter to awards contender -- and how the plan for his career as a writer, actor and director has always been...don't have a plan.
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Matt Belloni, executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.
Read the story7 minTom McCarthy: Spotlight
The new movie Spotlight takes its name from a team of investigative reporters at the Boston Globe. That team won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for exposing the child sex-abuse scandal in the local archdiocese.
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