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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Netflix's road rage comedy drama Beef had multiple Golden Globes wins last night, with star Ali Wong making history in her category.
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Night Swim debuts in second place at the box office as Wonka holds on to the top spot in the first weekend box office battle of the year.
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Actor David Soul, best known for playing Detective Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson in the 1970s cop show Starsky & Hutch, has died at the age of 80
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Disney's 1928 short film Steamboat Willie has now entered the public domain, but that doesn't mean that Mickey Mouse is copyright-free.
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Following a temporary ousting by Aquaman 2 and The Color Purple, musical prequel Wonka is back at the top of the box office as 2023 comes to an end.
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is on track to gross less than half of what the first movie managed in its opening weekend.
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DC superhero sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is surfing into theaters on a wave of mostly negative reviews.
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Yorgos Lanthimos' dark science-fiction comedy Poor Things broke into the weekend box office top 10 despite showing in fewer than 100 theaters.
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SNL guest host Kate McKinnon re-enacts a popular Hollywood legend about how Meet Me In St. Louis director Vincente Minnelli made little Tootie cry on camera.
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Chocolate-covered musical prequel Wonka is off to a tasty start with an estimated $39 million opening weekend at the box office.
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget director Sam Fell is 'in awe' of the original film, but he didn't want to just tell the same story again.
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Acclaimed video game creator Hideo Kojima is teaming up with A24 to develop an adaptation of his sci-fi game Death Stranding.
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A boy learns about the terrible secret hidden in the walls of his family home in Samuel Bodin's horror movie, Cobweb. Let's break-down the film's ending.
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Annihilation and Ex Machina director Alex Garland imagines near-future warfare in the first trailer for Civil War.
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SNL's Chloe Fineman recreates the sexy, slammin', Juilliard-impressing choreography from Save the Last Dance, with a little help from Julia Stiles.
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Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron has debuted at the top of the North American box office, with Godzilla Minus One also remaining in the top five.
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Actor Ryan O'Neal, best known for his roles in Love Story, Paper Moon, and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, has died at the age of 82.
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Disney's Wish has fallen hard in its second weekend at the box office, suffocating any hopes for an Elemental-style turn of fortune.
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Godzilla unleashes a hot new pink energy in the trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, but it's not the first time we've seen Godzilla go pink.
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Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé has lit up the usually quiet post-Thanksgiving weekend with a $21 million box office debut.
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Don't get lost searching for meaning in Saltburn. Emerald Fennell's movie is a wild, fun, amoral ride, not a condemnation of the rich or poor.
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Ghouls, mushroom clouds, vault dwellers, and a bit of Nat King Cole: the first teaser trailer for Prime Video's Fallout TV series has landed in style.
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Napoleon grossed $78.8 million worldwide over the Thanksgiving holiday, ranking in first place thanks to a strong overseas performance.
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Featuring Robin Williams at the height of his career, Mrs. Doubtfire was the second-highest grossing movie of 1993 at the worldwide box office.
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The odds weren't in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' favor, but the prequel has held on to the box office top spot over Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving has a bit of an advantage at the Thanksgiving box office, but it's biggest advantage is being a horror movie.
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The Twilight Zone episode King Nine Will Not Return was based on the real-life mystery of the Lady Be Good, a World War II bomber that vanished into the desert.