Trailers
The long-awaited sequel to 2007’s “Enchanted” is nearly upon us. “I know that change can be scary, but it can also be exciting,” Giselle (Amy Adams) insists in a new...
Films
Marielle Heller and Amy Adams are getting feral. The pair are teaming up on “Nightbitch,” a neo-horror pic that Searchlight has snagged worldwide rights to. They’re collaborating...
Amy Adams is following up her SAG-nominated turn as an Appalachian mother struggling with drug addiction by playing another character in a life-consuming battle. The “Hillbilly Elegy”...
“Family’s the only thing that means a goddamn thing. You’ll learn that,” says Glenn Close in a new trailer for “Hillbilly Elegy.” Based on J.D. Vance’s...
Television
Amy Adams will follow up her Emmy-nominated role as a crime reporter searching for answers in “Sharp Objects” with another portrayal of a woman trying to find justice. The six-time Oscar...
“Don’t go looking into other people’s houses — you won’t like what you see,” Amy Adams is warned in a new trailer for “The Woman in the Window.” The...
News
HBO’s adaptations of “Big Little Lies” and “Sharp Objects” drew big ratings, critical acclaim, and awards attention for the premium cabler. Laura Dern scored an Emmy for...
It’s unclear whether we’ll actually get another season of “Sharp Objects,” but Amy Adams is definitely sticking around HBO. The six-time Oscar nominee has signed a first-look...
Reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) isn’t keen on returning to her hometown in the trailer for HBO’s “Sharp Objects,” but she has little choice when her boss sends her there...
Five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams may be heading to the small screen. The “Big Eyes” star has signed on to play the lead role in a TV adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2006 novel “Sharp...
A groundbreaking new law is predicted to shake up Hollywood by — gasp! — paying women what they deserve. This week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the state’s Fair Pay Act....
Awards, News
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler set the theme for the 2015 Golden Globes in more ways than one last night. Perhaps it was Fey or Poehler’s gender-conscious jokes the two years before — or maybe it...
News, Women Writers
After scamming her way through the 1970s in last year’s American Hustle and painting through the 1950s in the upcoming Big Eyes, Amy Adams will visit the decade between as Janis Joplin in a biopic...
Awards, Features, News
Think back to last year’s Best Actress category and what a titanic lineup it was. Sandra Bullock for Gravity, Judi Dench for Philomena, Meryl Streep for August: Osage County, and Cate Blanchett,...
As of today, Patricia Arquette stands as the favorite to win a supporting-actress Oscar for her 12-years-in-the-making portrait of devoted motherhood in Boyhood. That is, if you believe the expert...
News, Videos
The trailer has finally arrived for Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as Margaret and Walter Keane, the couple behind the paintings, postcards, and prints of big-eyed...
[Editor’s Note: The opinions in this piece belong solely to the author, a columnist hired to assess the Oscar race from the female perspective. Women and Hollywood also published a piece earlier...
Features, News
Hear that “ouch”? It’s the sound of frustrated pundits pulling their hair as they attempt to divine the outcome of the Oscars’ best-picture race this year. Those of us who put our reps on...
And so it begins. The 86th Academy Award nominations did the hustle big time for American Hustle, with 10 nominations. From our female perspective, it’s terrific that both Amy Adams, with her...
Features, Films, News
I don’t want to see a Wonder Woman movie, but I desperately want one to exist. As a child of the eighties and nineties who grew up on TV rather than comic books and only knew Lynda Carter from...
One of the great things about this awards season is he re-emergence of Emma Thompson. We have got to say that she has been missed. We need to see her more because she is a rare, unfiltered, delight....
Beautybefore age. Thistwist on an old adage has held sway for the most part when it comes toselecting which actresses are granted an Oscar each year, at least for the pastseveral decades. But2013...
Reviews for the new re-imagining of Superman–Man of Steel–hit the internet earlier in the week. So far many are saying it’s a new version that is certainly worth checking out. But...
Features
Last week, The Hollywood Reporter released their annual Actress Roundtable issue. This year the list was all white and included Sally Field, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Helen Hunt,...
Gillian Flynn’s wildly popular novel, Gone Girl, which has topped the New York Times Bestseller List for the last two weeks, has been acquired by 20th Century Fox in a seven figure deal. The...
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