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Kelly Fremon Craig to Direct Adaptation of Judy Blume Classic “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”
An “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” movie is finally on the way. In the almost 50 years since the iconic young adult novel was first published, author Judy Blume has famously...
Gina Welch Developing TV Adaptation of Carmen Maria Machado Story Collection for FX
Carmen Maria Machado’s stories of haunted prom dresses, Faustian weight-loss surgeries, and a “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” populated by “doppelgängers, ghosts, and...
Comedy About Undocumented Immigrants from Sara Saedi in the Works at ABC, Reese Witherspoon to EP
Reese Witherspoon is aiming to take Sara Saedi’s memoir about growing up in a family of undocumented immigrants to the small screen. ABC has handed out a script order to...
Bruna Papandrea Giving Holly Ringland’s “Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” the TV Treatment
Another day, another TV project from Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Last week we reported the company would be adapting Signe Pike’s “The Lost Queen” for the small screen, and now Made...
Bruna Papandrea Developing Signe Pike’s Historical Epic Novel “The Lost Queen” for TV
Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories plans to adapt yet another book for the small screen. Since this spring the company has announced it will be bringing Allison Pearson’s “How Hard Can It...
Catherine Hardwicke to Direct Feature Adaptation of “Dissonance”
Catherine Hardwick has signed on to helm another genre adaptation. The “Twilight” and “Red Riding Hood” director will bring “Dissonance” to the screen for Straight...
Maggie Gyllenhaal to Make Directorial Debut with Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s “The Lost Daughter”
Maggie Gyllenhaal is following in the footsteps of her character on “The Deuce” and stepping behind the camera. The Oscar-nominated actress is set to make her directorial debut with...
The Met Is Finally Commissioning Operas by Women
Today in this-is-2018-WTF?! news, the Metropolitan Opera has announced several new ventures intended to draw in audiences, including commissioning women to write operas for the first time ever. Yep,...
“The Good Place’s” Tiya Sircar to Topline Netflix Mystery “Good Sam,” Kate Melville Directing
Tiya Sircar is visiting Netflix from “The Good Place.” The recurring star of the NBC afterlife comedy is set to topline a film for the streamer, Deadline reports. Inspired by Dete...
Trailer Watch: KiKi Layne Is Determined to Save Her Man in “If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Fonny, there’s something I gotta tell you,” Tish (newcomer KiKi Layne) says to her boyfriend over the phone. But, as the next shot of “If Beale Street Could...
Amy Chozick’s 2016 Election Memoir “Chasing Hillary” Getting Series Treatment at Warner Bros.
Nearly two years later, it’s still hard to process what exactly happened on November 8, 2016 — and how Hillary Clinton lost the election. Journalist Amy Chozick has already shed some...
Trailer Watch: Claire Foy Returns Home in “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”
Lisbeth Salander is back, and this time around the brilliant hacker and vigilante is being played by “The Crown’s” Claire Foy. A trailer has dropped for “The Girl in the...
TV News: Woman-Led “Lean On Me” Remake and Ann Patchett Adaptation On the Way
Two women-driven television adaptations are in the works. “Lean On Me,” a gender-flipped TV reboot of the classic Morgan Freeman film, is in development at The CW, and Emily Mortimer is...
Jennifer Garner to Star in and Produce “Yes Day” for Netflix
“Yes Day” is coming to Netflix. Jennifer Garner will star in and produce a comedy for the streamer based on Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s best-selling children’s book of the same...
Rosamund Pike, Lesli Linka Glatter, & Meredith Stiehm Team Up for “Banker’s Wife” Series
Following recent turns in “A Private War” and “Beirut,” Rosamund Pike has signed on to another dramatic, action-packed thriller. Deadline has revealed the “Gone...
Teaser Watch: Elena Ferrante’s Epic Tale of Female Friendship Comes to HBO in “My Brilliant Friend”
Elena and Lila’s story is just months away from its small screen premiere. The first teaser has dropped for “My Brilliant Friend.” Based on Elena Ferrante’s international...
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Writing Drama About Hawaiian Women for ABC, Viola Davis Producing
“Crazy Rich Asians” is breaking down barriers at the box office and on the small screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the commercial and critical hit directly influenced...
Sharon Horgan to Make Her Feature Directorial Debut, Has Yet Another Show in the Works
Sharon Horgan is squeezing two more projects into her jam-packed schedule. Deadline confirms the “Catastrophe” star and co-creator will direct her first feature film, and is teaming up...
Nicole Kidman Exec Producing TV Adaptation of Cecelia Ahern’s “Roar”
Nicole Kidman is working on yet another TV project. The “Big Little Lies” star and producer is already developing television adaptations of “The Expatriates,” “The Female...
Faye Ward’s Fable Pictures to Bring “Chocolate Wars” to TV, Smita Bhide Penning the Script
Get your candy bars ready: the story of the most delicious-sounding battle ever could be heading to the small screen. Faye Ward’s Fable Pictures has optioned Deborah Cadbury’s “The...
Meg Wolitzer and Jane Anderson on “The Wife’s” 14-Year Journey to the Screen
I read Meg Wolitzer’s “The Wife” about a decade ago, and it is one of those books that sticks with you. I was convinced it’d make a great movie — so much so that I...
Trailer Watch: Julianne Moore Sings for Peace in “Bel Canto”
A world renowned opera singer (Julianne Moore) is performing at a swanky birthday party for industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe) when all hell breaks loose in the trailer for “Bel...
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga Will Topline Rebecca Hall’s Directorial Debut
Rebecca Hall is re-teaming with her “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” director Angela Robinson. The Golden Globe-nominated actress is set to make her directorial debut with...
“Sex and the City and Us” Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong on the Show’s Legacy
Jennifer Keishin Armstong has chronicled the history of TV shows in several books, including “Seinfeldia” and “Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted.” It seems almost perfect that...
Aidy Bryant-Starrer “Shrill” Ordered to Series at Hulu
Hulu is taking notes from a loud woman. Variety reports that the streamer has given a six-episode series order to an adaptation of Lindy West’s 2016 memoir. Titled “Shrill: Notes from a...
Hillary Clinton to Exec Produce Women’s Suffrage TV Drama
Hillary Clinton is bringing her passion for women’s rights to television. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the woman we wish were president will make her executive producing debut with a TV...
Amazon Orders Drama About a Female-Led ’70s Rock Band from Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon has yet another project in development. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon just ordered 13 episodes of “Daisy Chain & the Six,” a ’70s-set drama about a rock...
Shondaland Announces First Slate of Netflix Series
Shondaland’s massive empire continues to grow. Netflix has announced the first slate of series being developed by TV titans Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers and their Shondaland team....
Exclusive: A Sex Worker and Writer’s Many Lives Are Explored in “Nelly” Trailer
“I’m not a writer,” a sex worker tells a client in the trailer for “Nelly” — but she actually is. Nelly Arcan (Mylène Mackay) is, in her words, a...
Trailer Watch: Amandla Stenberg Is a Super Teen with a Super Romance in “The Darkest Minds”
A new trailer has dropped for “The Darkest Minds.” The adaptation of Alexandra Bracken’s YA novel sees “Hunger Games” star Amandla Stenberg living in another dystopia....
Trailer Watch: Anna Kendrick Goes Poking Around Blake Lively’s Past in “A Simple Favor”
“Wanna trade confessions? What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever done?” Blake Likely asks Anna Kendrick in a new trailer for “A Simple Favor.” Emily (Lively) and...
Trailer Watch: Rose Byrne Falls for Her Boyfriend’s Hero in “Juliet, Naked”
“I may look like a nice English lady in a sensible cardigan, but these days it’s a thin veneer and it’s starting to crack,” says Rose Byrne in a new trailer for “Juliet,...
Three Women-Created YA Pilots in the Works at Amazon
Amazon Studios has given the green light to three YA pilots from women. As Deadline reports, the projects are “Panic” from Lauren Oliver, “The Wilds” from Sarah Streicher,...
Greta Gerwig May Direct “Little Women,” Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan Circling
Greta Gerwig may be following up her new classic “Lady Bird” with an old classic. The Oscar-nominated helmer is eyeing “Little Women” as her next directing job, Variety...
Trailer Watch: Lily James Reports on “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
For Juliet, writing is the “perfect job.” She gets to sit indoors and is “always near a teapot.” But the free spirit is desperate to write about “something...
Bruna Papandrea Is Bringing Jessica Knoll’s “The Favorite Sister” to TV
Jessica Knoll’s novel “The Favorite Sister” is getting a television adaptation. “Big Littles Lies” producer Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories obtained the rights...
Trailer Watch: Teresa Palmer Unlocks the Magic in Her Blood in “A Discovery of Witches”
“Once the world was full of wonders. But it belongs to humans now,” a 1,500 year-old vampire explains in a new trailer for “A Discovery of Witches.” “We have all but...
Trailer Watch: A Friend’s Murder Spurs Amandla Stenberg to Activism in “The Hate U Give”
Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) loves her family and her neighborhood, Garden Heights. She goes to predominantly white high school, but is fine with being the non-“ghetto” “Starr,...
Lifetime Orders Three Movies Based on Jane Green Novels, Kim Raver to Co-Direct the First
Lifetime is partnering up with Jane Green. The author of 17 New York Times best-sellers, Green has been published in over 30 languages around the world. Looking to capitalize on that popularity,...
Laura Dern and Jayme Lemons’ Jaywalker Signs First-Look Deal with Platform One Media
Laura Dern is following in the footsteps of her “Big Little Lies” co-star Nicole Kidman. Dern and Jayme Lemons’ Jaywalker Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Platform One Media,...
Trailer Watch: A Teen’s Love Letters Are Leaked in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”
Meet Lara Jean, the teen at the center of Susan Johnson’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” When she gets super intense crushes, the high schooler writes letters to the...
“Coroner” Adaptation Coming to CBC, Serinda Swan Will Star
Jenny Cooper is coming to TV, and “Inhumans” alumna Serinda Swan will play her. Deadline reports that Swan will topline CBC’s adaptation of M.R. Hall’s best-selling book series...
“Americanah” Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins 2018 PEN Pinter Prize
Renowned author, feminist, and speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is this year’s recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize. As The Guardian reports, the honor, named after the late author Harold Pinter,...
Julia Roberts to Star in “Little Bee” Adaptation, Kathleen Robertson to Write
The “Little Bee” adaptation is back on. Deadline reports that Julia Roberts has signed on to the project and writer-actress Kathleen Robertson is writing the script. Nicole Kidman and her...
Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire” Wins the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire” has been named this year’s recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Guardian confirms. The prestigious honor recognizes the best...
Teaser Watch: Claire Foy Is “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”
Queen Elizabeth is armed and dangerous in our first look at “The Girl in the Spider’s Web.” “The Crown” star Claire Foy is saying goodbye to Buckingham Palace and...
Sharon Horgan to Star in and Produce “Women on the Verge” Series
“Catastrophe” co-creator and star Sharon Horgan is working on yet another TV project. The busy multi-hyphenate is set to star in and produce six-part series “Women on the...
Trailer Watch: Amy Adams Reports on a Crime and Riles Up Her Hometown in “Sharp Objects”
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...
TV Adaptation of Trans Activist Juno Dawson’s Memoir on the Way
“The Gender Games” could be coming to the small screen, and Doctor Strange is involved. Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch banner has scored TV rights to the memoir by Juno Dawson, a...
“Younger” Renewed for Season 6
Liza Miller will continue living a double life for at least another year. Variety confirms that “Younger,” the Sutton Foster-led series about a 40-something woman posing as a 20-something...
Trailer Watch: Emma Thompson Is a Judge Facing a Life-Changing Decision in “The Children Act”
“I’m always too busy. The law can take over your life,” says Emma Thompson in a new trailer for “The Children Act.” The Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter...