Hannah Shaw-Williams
School
University Of Exeter, University Of Toronto, New York Film Academy
Expertise
Horror Movies, Box Office, British Cinema
- Hannah has interviewed many major actors and filmmakers, including Mark Wahlberg, Ron Howard, Andy Serkis, Michael Fassbender, and M. Night Shyamalan.
- She has covered major events ranging from movie set visits to San Diego Comic-Con.
- In addition to writing about the film and TV industry, Hannah has also worked as a boom operator and sound assistant on titles like "Alien: Covenant" and BBC's "Merlin."
Experience
Hannah's first job was working as an usher in her small home town cinema, and she's been finding ways to get paid for watching movies ever since. After starting out as a contributor for Bleeding Cool, she began writing for Screen Rant in 2013 and was later promoted to a junior editor role before becoming the site's first features editor. Hannah wrote her undergraduate dissertation on the haunted houses of the horror genre, a choice that has proven particularly useful since Netflix decided to launch an entire mini-franchise of horror shows about haunted houses. In addition to loving all things creepy and spooky, Hannah is also interested in the business side of the film industry, and regularly breaks down the latest weekend box office news for /Film.
Education
Hannah has a bachelor's degree in English with Study in North America, having spent two years at the University of Exeter and one year on exchange at the University of Toronto; after leaving university, she studied filmmaking on a diploma course at New York Film Academy.
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Stories By Hannah Shaw-Williams
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Saturday Night Live guest host Martin Short gets inducted into the Five-Timers Club by Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, and other stars.
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Mufasa: The Lion King and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 go head-to-head at the box office in their opening weekends, and Sonic is the clear victor.
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The feud between It Ends With Us star Blake Lively and her co-star/director Justin Baldoni has escalated into a lawsuit, alleging sexual harassment.
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Sony's long-delayed Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter is off to a dismal start at the box office, with an estimated $10-12 million opening weekend.
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The rage virus has transformed humanity in the trailer for 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle's long-awaited sequel to his 2002 horror hit.
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There's no place like Rome in Saturday Night Live's musical take on Gladiator 2, where Paul Mescal gets to show off his singing skills.
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Hilary Swank joins the Yellowjackets cast as a mysterious character, who could be another Flight 2525 survivor, in a first look trailer for season 3.
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Mark S. and the other Innies are back at Lumon in the new trailer for Severance season 2, and facing some unexpected consequences of their rebellion.
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Early critic reactions for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew are praising its '80s Amblin kid-focused adventure vibes and the fresh sense of wonder it brings.
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Moana 2 has exploded past projections to lead a historic Thanksgiving box office, and broke a bunch of other all-time records too.
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Wicked has already set a massive box office record, scoring the biggest global opening weekend ever for a movie based on a Broadway show.
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In Gladiator 2, battles of life and death play out in both the combat arena and the imperial court. Monkeys play a pivotal role in both.
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Ridley Scott's historical epic Gladiator 2 isn't exactly historically accurate, but parts of it are based on a true story.
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Mason Thames stars in the first trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, a live-action remake of Dreamworks' beloved animated fantasy film.
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The characters of HBO's sci-fi prequel series Dune: Prophecy were inspired by real-life figures, from the Russian tsars to Prince Harry.
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Saturday Night Live guest host Bill Burr manages to fail the Rorschach test when he can't stop seeing naughty artwork of Disney characters.
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HBO has reportedly been developing at least one movie set in the Game of Thrones universe, with plans to bring Westeros to the big screen.
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The chaotic humor of Tom Hardy's Venom movies won over a lot of fans, but the reviews are mixed. Here's how they rank according to Rotten Tomatoes.
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Venom: The Last Dance has fallen short of box office projections, but it's still 2024's second most successful superhero movie.
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Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt take a road trip across a retro-futuristic wasteland in the first trailer for Netflix movie The Electric State.
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Ariana Grande delivers some impressive rapid-fire tongue twisters in Saturday Night Live's Twilight Zone homage, 'Hotel Detectives.'
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Terrifier 3 had an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever, and it did it.
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Joker: Folie A Deux is the first comic book movie ever to receive a D grade from CinemaScore, based on audience exit polling.
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Nicolas Cage's Spider-Man Noir casts some very long shadows in set photos and footage from the live action TV show's Los Angeles shoot.
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The Saturday Night Live season 50 premiere included a tribute to NBCUniversal's Chief Security Officer, Tom McCarty, who passed away this summer.
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The new trailer for Robert Eggers' vampire horror Nosferatu teases Bill Skarsgard's Count Orlok and his irresistible powers of seduction.
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DreamWorks' animated tearjerker The Wild Robot is significantly outpacing expectations in its opening weekend at the box office.