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We could really use a movie like this right about now. That was the first thing Paul Salfen told Mena Massoud and Elijah Alexander when they sat down to talk about Daniel and the Fiery Furnace. The biblical epic, written and directed by brothers Matthew and Daniel Kooman and released in theaters September 18 through

For the Kooman Brothers, the set of Daniel and the Fiery Furnace felt like family—even with the challenges that come after twenty years of filmmaking. In this exclusive conversation with Paul Salfen, Matthew and Daniel Kooman open up about the rare twelve-minute takes of verbatim Scripture between Mena Massoud and Elijah Alexander, the moment the

This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's sequel to The Social Network that explores Mark Zuckerberg at the hight of his powers, this time played by Jeremy Strong, replacing Jesse Eisenberg while Sorkin takes over the directorial duties for David Fincher and Alexandre Desplat takes

In the last twelve years of Harry Belafonte’s life, the legendary artist and activist kept asking whether he had done enough. Emmy-nominated filmmaker Susanne Rostock, who shared an office with him and previously directed Sing Your Song, returns with Following Harry, an intimate documentary that captures both the public frontlines of Ferguson and the Women’s

Huma Qureshi is proud of this one. As Netflix opens Baby Do Die Do on September 23, the actress sits with Paul Salfen and calls the film a special baby—the first from Saleem Siblings, the company she co-founded with her brother Saqib Saleem. She stars as a deaf-and-mute assassin who hides a gun in a

Paul Salfen has a neon tree behind him in the YouTube Creators Lounge at VidSummit, and the movie on the table is the one the moment can actually use. Double Trouble, in select theaters October 9, drops real-life sisters Violet McGraw and Madeleine McGraw into a Las Vegas jewelry heist and asks them to outrun

Scott Adkins has spent a career getting hit so the camera can believe it. On One Last Shot, the third and closing film in James Nunn’s single-take action trilogy, the hits stopped being theoretical. Sitting with Paul Salfen, Adkins, Steven Cree, and Nunn talk about a broken rib, a torn pec, a speedboat stunt Cree

After more than four years of labor and love—beginning with Shawn Ryan’s first meeting with Jon Hamm in April 2022—American Hostage has finally reached screens. Paul Salfen talks with Ryan, co-creator/co-showrunner Eileen Myers, and director/EP Adam Arkin about the long haul from acclaimed podcast to MGM+ psychological thriller, the game-face intensity of a cold Winnipeg

Dick Hall walked 63 hours on a wire and spent the rest of his life being called a sissy for not fighting back. Kristoffer Polaha kept the page that explains why in his script. Paul Salfen talks with Kristoffer Polaha (Dick Hall), Mireille Enos (Barbara Heckman), and Giovanni Ribisi (Tony Kiritsis) about MGM+’s American Hostage

Zachary Levi finally gets the Western he has wanted since he was a kid. AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen talks with Levi, Neal McDonough, Meg Fraser, and director Julio Quintana about Angel and the Badman, Angel Studios’ reimagining of the 1947 John Wayne classic, in theaters October 9, 2026. AMFM_Quintana_Angel_and_the_Badman_Paul_Salfen