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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....
Trailer Watch: Two Women Are “Running the Shop” in “The Crown” Season 4
Britain’s first female prime minister introduces herself to Queen Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman) in the trailer for “The Crown’s” upcoming fourth season. “Your Majesty, I...
Nicole Kidman to Topline and Exec Produce Amazon Drama “Things I Know to Be True”
Nicole Kidman has added yet another television project to her slate. The Oscar winner will star in and executive produce “Things I Know to Be True.” Amazon has ordered the adaptation of...
Mindy Kaling to Topline and Produce HBO Max Adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s “Good in Bed”
Mindy Kaling is taking Jennifer Weiner’s beloved debut novel to HBO Max. The “Late Night” star and screenwriter has signed on to topline and produce an adaptation of “Good in...
Susanne Bier to Co-Chair Academy’s International Feature Film Executive Committee
Susanne Bier, director of the Oscar-winning “In a Better World,” is set to lead one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ (AMPAS) awards committees. Deadline reports...
“What We Wanted” Is Austria’s Pick for Oscars’ International Feature Category
Another woman-directed film has joined the Oscar race in the International Feature category. Screen Daily confirmed that Austria submitted Ulrike Kofler’s fertility drama “What We...
Keisha Rae Witherspoon Receives Inaugural Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant
The Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant has announced its first recipient. Miami-based independent director Keisha Rae Witherspoon will take home the $25,000 unrestricted cash grant this year,...
IDA Doc Awards Announce Shortlists for Best Feature and Best Short: “Time,” “Boys State,” & More
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories at the 36th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, which will be presented at a...
Uzo Aduba to Star in Season 4 of HBO’s “In Treatment”
Uzo Aduba is set to take over Gabriel Byrne’s therapist chair. According to Deadline, the three-time Emmy winner has signed on to topline Season 4 of “In Treatment” in a reimagined...
November 2020 Film Preview
By Shayna Maci Warner and Tatiana McInnis November is a varied, exciting month for women-forward filmmaking, sprinkled with dystopian thrillers, glimpses into grief and trauma-fueled paranoia, and...
Submit Now: The NYWIFT Online Shorts Festival
The fourth annual New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) Online Shorts Festival is now accepting submissions, a press release has announced. NYWIFT members are welcome to enter their short...
Mira Nair’s “A Suitable Boy” Coming to Acorn TV
“A Suitable Boy” is coming stateside. A press release announced that AMC Networks’ Acorn TV snagged exclusive U.S. and Canada premieres of the Mira Nair-directed period drama, which...
Emma Thompson to Topline Sophie Hyde’s Sexual Awakening Comedy “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
For her next gig, Emma Thompson is getting her groove back. The Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter is set to star in Sophie Hyde’s “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a comedy about...
Victoria Mahoney Will Direct Kerry Washington-Starrer “Shadow Force” for Lionsgate
Victoria Mahoney has lined up another genre pic. Back in June she signed on to helm “Kill Them All,” the story of a woman on a revenge campaign with a high body count, for Paramount, and...
Pick of the Day: “Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine”
Sarah Cooper became a household name by lip-synching some of Trump’s more incomprehensible COVID-19 remarks. With those viral videos, she was able to lay bare just how unqualified Trump is for...
Trailer Watch: Netflix Celebrates the Queen of Tejano Music with “Selena: The Series”
“When I think about being on stage… nothing else matters,” says Christian Serratos in a new trailer for “Selena: The Series.” The “Walking Dead” actress...
Ava DuVernay and Sydney Freeland Team Up for Native American Drama at NBC
A history-making series could be coming to NBC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network is developing a drama about a Native American family — “a first for network...
Trailer Watch: “Dear Santa” Goes Behind the Scenes of the Postal Service’s Operation Santa Program
Volunteers join forces with the United States Postal Service to help kids’ Christmas dreams come true in “Dear Santa,” a look inside the USPS’s 100-year-old Operation Santa...
Sara Wolitzky on Exploring “Reawakened Feminist Energy and Organizing” in “Not Done: Women Remaking America”
Sara Wolitzky is a documentary filmmaker. In 2012, she helped launch the multi-platform documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds...
Trailer Watch: Christine Baranski Is a Major Scrooge in “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square”
“Christmas is a time for caring, being at your best,” the Queen of Country sings in a new trailer for “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square.” “Christmas is a...
Weekly Update for October 23: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Opening
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD The Craft: Legacy – Written and Directed by Zoe Lister-Jones In Blumhouse’s continuation of the cult hit “The Craft,” an eclectic...
Ziwe Fumudoh Lines Up Variety Series at Showtime
Ziwe Fumudoh is getting her own Showtime series. The cable network has given the rising comedian’s untitled variety show a straight-to-series order, per The Hollywood Reporter. The project will...
Bruna Papandrea & Lynette Howell Taylor Bringing Jennifer Donnelly’s “Poisoned” to the Big Screen
A new take on Snow White is on the way from Bruna Papandrea and Lynette Howell Taylor. Endeavor Content has acquired the rights to “Poisoned,” Jennifer Donnelly’s new YA fantasy novel,...
Trailer Watch: “Us Kids” Fight to End Gun Violence
Kim A. Snyder is back with another documentary about gun violence. She’s following up 2016’s “Newtown,” a portrait of Newtown, Connecticut, one year after the shooting at...
Pick of the Day: “The Queen’s Gambit”
Anya Taylor-Joy plays a brilliant chess prodigy besieged by addiction in “The Queen’s Gambit,” Netflix’s bingeworthy adaptation of the 1983 novel of the same name. Set in the...
Pick of the Day: “Bad Hair”
If you’re already missing “Lovecraft Country” and wishing HBO would just go ahead and frickin’ renew it already, then “Bad Hair” is just what the doctor ordered....
Trailer Watch: A Family Reconnects After 17 Years in “Farewell Amor”
A family reunites after nearly two decades apart in a new trailer for “Farewell Amor.” Written and directed by Ekwa Msang, the drama sees Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, “The...
Billie Jean King to Narrate Women’s Sports Docuseries, “Free Solo’s” Chai Vasarhelyi Producing
Billie Jean King will lend her voice to a docuseries exploring pay inequity, motherhood, LGBTQ+ rights, intersectionality, and inclusion in women’s sports. The tennis legend is narrating and...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with Susanne Bier About “The Undoing”
Susanne Bier will discuss her HBO limited series “The Undoing” at the next Girls Club event. The conversation will take place Tuesday, October 27, at 4 p.m. EST and is open to the public....
Trailer Watch: “The Donut King” Explores the Power of the American Dream
A trailer has dropped for “The Donut King,” Alice Gu’s portrait of Ted Ngoy, AKA the Donut King, a Cambodian refugee who arrived in America in 1975 with nothing and built a donut...
Apply Now: Women In Film’s Hire Her Back Grant
Attention, members of Women In Film’s (WIF) local Los Angeles, New York, or Atlanta chapters whose filmmaking careers have been stalled by COVID-19: applications for Hire Her Back grants are...
“Flashdance” Series Reboot in the Works at Paramount+ from Angela Robinson and Tracy McMillan
Take out your legwarmers and pump up the volume on Irene Cara’s anthem: “Flashdance” is getting a second life. Deadline reports that an updated take on the classic 1983 dance pic is...
Offering a “Brave Space to Create Unapologetically”: Crowdfunding Picks
This round of crowdfunding picks shares a focus on representing and tackling a range of intersecting social and cultural issues. They rely on humor, fantasy, and, of course, Zoom, to address the...
Kristen Bell to Topline and Exec Produce “The Woman in the House” for Netflix
Kristen Bell has left “The Good Place” and is nursing a broken heart. Deadline reports that she’s set to exec produce and star in “The Woman in the House,” an...
Submit Now: Starz, WrapWomen, and WIF’s Telling Our Stories Short Film Competition
STARZ, WrapWomen, and Women in Film are accepting submissions for the Telling Our Stories (TOS) film competition. The contest, which showcases short films from women and gender non-conforming...
Teaser Watch: Kelly Marie Tran Tries to Save the World in “Raya and the Last Dragon”
Move over Khaleesi, there’s a new woman warrior harnessing the power of dragons set to hit the screen. A teaser has dropped for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Raya and the Last...
Clea DuVall’s “Happiest Season” Will Debut on Hulu, Kristen Stewart Stars
Clea DuVall’s holiday-themed queer rom-com will debut on Hulu. The streamer snagged domestic rights to Kristen Stewart-starrer “Happiest Season.” According to Deadline, Sony...
Trailer Watch: Kaley Cuoco May Be a Murderer in “The Flight Attendant”
“I’m a crazy, drunk flight attendant, not a killer,” says Kaley Cuoco in a new trailer for “The Flight Attendant.” HBO Max’s comedic thriller sees the “Big...
Pick of the Day: “Surge”
One of the few good things to come out of the 2016 election was the subsequent onslaught of women running for office, organizing political campaigns, and participating in grassroots activism —...
Diane Warren, Susan Stroman, & Weinstein Survivor Louisette Geiss Join Forces for #MeToo Musical
Screenwriter and Harvey Weinstein accuser Louisette Geiss is teaming up with 11-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren and Tony-winning theater director and choreographer Susan Stroman to tell...
“Wildfire” Writer-Director Cathy Brady Wins £50,000 Bursary at BFI London Film Festival
“Wildfire’s” hot streak continues. Cathy Brady’s feature directorial debut has already been programmed at the Toronto International Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival,...
Sabrina Van Tassel on Uncovering Flaws in the System in “The State of Texas vs. Melissa”
Sabrina Van Tassel is a French-American film director and journalist. As an investigative reporter, Van Tassel has directed more than 45 documentary films over the last 15 years for major television...
D.C. Bar-Set Comedy from “A Black Lady Sketch Show’s” Akilah Green in Development at ABC
Akilah Green, of “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Perfect Harmony,” is heading to “Nate’s.” She is writing and executive producing a half-hour multi-cam...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with Lydia Dean Pilcher About “Radium Girls” & “A Call to Spy”
Lydia Dean Pilcher will discuss “Radium Girls” and “A Call to Spy” at the next Girls Club event. The conversation will take place Wednesday, October 21, at 3 p.m. EST and is open...
Catherine Eaton on “The Sounding,” Her Film About a Woman Fighting for Her Voice and Freedom
Catherine Eaton is a writer, director, and actor. She was chosen for Tribeca’s Through Her Lens Lab and Grant for her pilot “On the Outs,” and was selected as a Shadowing Director...
“How to Get Away with Murder’s” Abby Ajayi Has Family Drama “Riches” in the Works at ITV
“How to Get Away with Murder” scribe Abby Ajayi is teaming up with ITV for your next TV obsession. The UK channel has commissioned Greenacre Films to produce Ajayi’s...
Kelly Oxford’s “Pink Skies Ahead” Lands at MTV Studios
Kelly Oxford’s feature debut has secured distribution. A press release announced that MTV Studios snagged worldwide rights to “Pink Skies Ahead,” which made its world premiere at...
Queer Family Felicitations: VOD and Web Series Picks
Queer family is an amorphous unit not quite like any other. For one thing, its permutations are endless; family could be anything from blood relatives, to acquaintances who look out for each other...
Weekly Update for October 16: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Opening
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD What the Constitution Means to Me (Filmed Stage Production) – Directed by Marielle Heller; Written by Heidi Schreck As Amy Coney...
Every Project from Margot Robbie & Christina Hodson’s All-Women Script-Writing Program Has Sold
Let’s all get a celebratory egg and cheese sandwich, because it seems that Margot Robbie and Christina Hodson’s Lucky Exports Pitch Program has been a resounding success. The respective...
Writers Guild of America, East Launches Safe Workplace Helpline
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is addressing workplace safety. As “part of its commitment to ensuring members can work in an environment free of harassment or discrimination,”...