#Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain Returns to Broadway with Amy Herzog’s Adaptation of “A Doll’s House”

This year’s Best Actress Oscar winner is heading to the stage: Jessica Chastain is returning to Broadway.  Deadline reports that she’ll star as Nora Helmer in a “radical new...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Risks It All to Protect Her Patients in “The Good Nurse”

Jessica Chastain crosses paths with a Dr. Death-type in “The Good Nurse.” A new trailer for the Netflix thriller introduces us to Amy (Chastain), a single mom dealing with long shifts at...

Films

Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway Psychological Thriller “‘Mothers’ Instinct” Lands at Neon

Two Oscar-winning actresses are teaming up. Jessica Chastain, who snagged Best Actress honors this year for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” and Anne Hathaway, the recipient of the 2013 Best...

Awards

Oscars: Jane Campion Lands Best Director for “The Power of the Dog,” “CODA” Goes Three for Three

Jane Campion became the third woman to ever take home the honor Best Director at last night’s Academy Awards. Her “Power of the Dog” win follows on the heels of Chloé Zhao’s...

Television

CNN Lines Up “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” Docuseries, Jessica Chastain Narrates

Marilyn Monroe and her legacy will be reconsidered in the latest CNN Original Series. A press release has announced that the four-part docuseries “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” will premiere...

Television

Jessica Chastain and Jude Weng Are Bringing “The School for Good Mothers” to TV

Jessica Chastain is following up HBO’s updated take on “Scenes from a Marriage” with another adaptation. The two-time Oscar nominee has optioned the TV rights to “The School...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Recruits Lupita Nyong’o and More in “The 355”

Riding high on Emmy buzz for “Scenes from a Marriage” and Oscar buzz for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Jessica Chastain is debuting a new trailer for “The 355.” The...

Festivals

Jessica Chastain Will Be Honored with TIFF Tribute Actor Award

Jessica Chastain will be joining Alanis Obomsawin at this year’s TIFF Tribute Awards. A press release announced that the two-time Oscar nominee has been named as this year’s recipient of...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Transforms into Tammy Faye Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

“You follow blindly. In the end, all you are is blind,” Jessica Chastain is told in a new trailer for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” The biopic sees the two-time Oscar nominee...

Films

Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway Team Up for “Mothers’ Instinct” English-Remake

Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are joining forces on an English-language remake of “Duelles.” The pair will star in “Mothers’ Instinct,” a press release announced....

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong’o Lead an All-Star Cast in “The 355”

Jessica Chastain assembles a dream team with the aim of retrieving a top-secret weapon in “The 355.” A trailer just dropped for the star-studded espionage thriller. “The old wars...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Is an Assassin Betrayed By Her Own in “Ava”

A new trailer has dropped for Ava, a thriller that sees Jessica Chastain playing a deadly assassin. Considered a liability by one higher-up (Colin Farrell) at the black ops organization she works for...

Television

Jessica Chastain Developing Series Based on Alice Feeney Thriller “His & Hers”

Jessica Chastain continues to add to her packed slate. The actress’ production company, Freckle Films, along with producer Kristen Campo (“The Killing,” “The L Word: Generation Q”), and...

Films

Jessica Chastain to Star in and Produce Lucía Puenzo’s “Losing Clementine”

Jessica Chastain just took on Pennywise the clown in “It Chapter Two” and the X-Men in “Dark Phoenix,” but she’ll do battle with herself in a new feature. The two-time...

Films

Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, and Fan Bingbing’s “355” Gets Release Date

“355” has a release date. The star-studded Universal Pictures spy thriller sees Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, and Fan Bingbing teaming up to prevent an international...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: The X-Men and Jessica Chastain Vie for Sophie Turner’s Soul in “Dark Phoenix”

“I’m scared, and when I lose control bad things happen to people I love,” says Sophie Turner in a new trailer for “Dark Phoenix.” The “X-Men” pic sees Jean...

Features

18 Most Anticipated Films By and About Women in 2016

2016 is rushing swiftly upon us, so to kickstart celebrations, here’s a heads-up on 18 of the most exciting female-centric/women-directed films to watch out for in the coming months. Do...

News

Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon Being Considered for ‘Rodham’

As expected some of the most talented women in Hollywood are being considered to play Hillary Clinton in the upcoming Rodham. Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon and Amanda...

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Jessica Chastain to Star in The Zookeeper’s Wife

Jessica Chastain has just signed on to star in The Zookeeper’s Wife, an adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s novel, that will be directed by Whale Rider director Niki Caro.  With a...

Features

Cross Post: Chastain, “Roles for Women Have Taken a Step Back”

It’s refreshing to read a quote from an actress working today willing to criticize the kinds of roles offered to women now in Hollywood. Sure, it’s easy to get attention if you put on a...

News

Jessica Chastain Shoots Down Fabricated Feud with Jennifer Lawrence

Unsurprisingly, media outlets have created a “feud” between Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence. The Oscar-nominated actresses were apparently fighting because of Jennifer...

News

Jessica Chastain to star in Miss Julie – Directed by Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann, director and muse of Ingmar Bergman, is set  to direct an adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie.  Set in 1874, the play explores the title character’s...

Features

Cross Post: Uppity Women: How Maya and Kathryn Bigelow Continue to Threaten the Status Quo

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”  — Eleanor Roosevelt If you want to win an Oscar for Best Picture now, make an...

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Michael Moore: Zero Dark Thirty is a Movie About ‘How We Don’t Listen to Women.’

Always controversial and rarely quiet political filmmaker and author, Michael Moore, has spoken out in defense of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. Moore took to Facebook (and Time.com),...

News

Jessica Chastain Rules the Box Office with Top Two Films

In an awesome development over the weekend, one of Women and Hollywood’s favorite actresses, Jessica Chastain dominated the box office this weekend with both her films in the top spots. Mama,...

News

Thoughts on the Golden Globes – Girls Literally Ruled

Last night, I ended up watching the Golden Globes in real time (with the commercials too.) The reason why that was possible was because of twitter and because I was having such a good time watching...

News

Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty Win Big at EDA Awards

Zero Dark Thirty has swept, yet again, another awards ceremony, this time around at the EDA Awards, from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Bigelow received the award for best director, Mark...

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Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal Defend Film at NY Film Critics Circle Award Ceremony

Over the last several weeks the steady drumbeat against Zero Dark Thirty has grown louder and louder.  There's been the discussion that Boal was a bully and Bigelow defered to him on the set...

News

Final Trailer for Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty hits theatres in NY and LA tomorrow.  In anticipation here is the final trailer for the must talked about (even before it is released) film.  I got the chance to see Zero...

Features

She Who Will Not Be Ignored

My fellow blogger Sasha Stone has another great piece (how do you write so much great stuff Sasha?) over on her blog Awards Daily called Female Trouble: Why Powerful Women Threaten Hollywood. ...

News

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics and AFI Announce Picks of 2012

We are officially in the center of awards season and yesterday both the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association and the American Film Institute announced their winners in film (AFI also...

News

Zero Dark Thirty Wins Big with the National Board of Review

Kathryn Bigelow is on a roll. After receiving Best Director, Best Film and Best Cinematography (for Greig Fraser) for Zero Dark Thirty from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday, the film...

News

Kathryn Bigelow Talks Making Zero Dark Thirty with Martha Raddatz

Kathryn Bigelow talked with Martha Raddatz of  ABC News about the making of her new film Zero Dark Thirty. Bigelow and screenwriter, Mark Boal, discussed how the project originally focusing...

News

Will Kathryn Bigelow Be a Two Time Best Director Nominee?

Right after Thanksgiving Kathryn Bigelow's long awaited follow-up to her Oscar award winning film The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty (which I will see next week) started screening and the word has...

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