#Elle Fanning
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Plays Michelle Carter in True Crime Drama “The Girl from Plainville”
Elle Fanning will reprise her role as Russia’s longest-ruling female leader in the upcoming third season of “The Great,” but first she’ll tell a much more timely, tech-heavy...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Vows to Remake Russia in “The Great” Season 2
Convinced that “reason and compassion can win any argument better than violence,” Elle Fanning prepares to “remake Russia” in “The Great’s” sophomore season....
Elle Fanning Will Play Michelle Carter in Hulu Series About Infamous Texting-Suicide Case from Liz Hannah
Elle Fanning is set to topline another Hulu series inspired by a true story. “The Great,” her 18th-century set Catherine the Great comedy, was renewed for a second season last month, and...
Pick of the Day: “The Great”
“The Great” tells the story of woman who won’t let sexism or her hilariously incompetent husband stand in the way of her destiny. Billed as “an occasionally true story,”...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Is Ready to Save Russia in “The Great”
“Russia must be saved — and I with it,” says Elle Fanning in a new trailer for “The Great.” The Hulu series tells the story of Catherine the Great (Fanning), the longest...
Teaser Watch: Elle Fanning Is Determined to Rule Russia in “The Great”
Elle Fanning won’t let sexism or a depraved husband stand in the way of her destiny in a new teaser for “The Great.” Slated to premiere on Hulu May 15, the satirical series, which...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning and Sally Potter Reunite to Explore “The Roads Not Taken”
Elle Fanning struggles to make sense of her dad’s chaotic mind in Sally Potter’s latest. A trailer has landed for “The Roads Not Taken,” which will make its world premiere at...
Elle Fanning & Dakota Fanning Will Play Sisters in Mélanie Laurent’s Adaptation of “The Nightingale”
Elle Fanning is re-teaming with her “Galveston” director, and this time she’ll be joined by her sister, Dakota Fanning. The pair are signed on to topline Mélanie Laurent’s...
Teaser Watch: “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” Is No Fairy Tale
Maleficent is back and as acerbic as ever. A teaser trailer has dropped for “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” a sequel to 2014’s “Sleeping Beauty” reimagining,...
Elle Fanning to Receive Maverick Spirit Award from Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival
At just 20 years old, Elle Fanning already has over 50 credits to her name. The prolific actress and producer is set to be honored by Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival for her ever-expanding...
Elle Fanning-Led Catherine the Great Series Gets Greenlight from Hulu
Elle Fanning is taking an “anti-historical ride” to 18th century Russia. According to Deadline, Hulu has ordered “The Great” to series. The “genre-bending” drama,...
Sally Potter in Production on Her Next Film, Cast Includes Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney
Sally Potter is re-teaming with Elle Fanning on her next pic. The “Ginger & Rosa” collaborators are in production on an as-yet untitled feature. Currently filming in Spain, the drama...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Runs From the Past in Mélanie Laurent’s “Galveston”
The newest trailer for Mélanie Laurent’s “Galveston” eerily shares what one can only presume is the film’s overarching, psychological conflict. As a disembodied voiceover tells us,...
Mélanie Laurent’s “Galveston” Acquired by RLJE Films
Mélanie Laurent’s English-language directing debut has found a home. A press release announced that RLJE Films acquired all U.S. rights to Elle Fanning-starrer “Galveston” with a...
Teaser Watch: Elle Fanning Survives the Apocalypse in Reed Morano’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”
“Weren’t you lonely?” Elle Fanning asks “Game of Thrones'” Peter Dinklage in a NSFW teaser for “I Think We’re Alone Now.” The unlikely pair are living...
Teaser Watch: Elle Fanning Goes on the Run in Mélanie Laurent’s “Galveston”
“Are you gonna kill me?” Elle Fanning asks Ben Foster in the new teaser for “Galveston.” Roy (Foster), a terminally ill hitman with a bounty on his head, replies no. And so...
Annette Bening and Elle Fanning Family Comedy “20th Century Women” Sells to A24
It looks like four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening may be a name that pops up during awards chatter yet again. The U.S. rights to “20th Century Women,” a new comedy starring Bening,...
Sofia Coppola to Remake ‘The Beguiled,’ Kidman, Dunst and Fanning in Talks to Star
Sofia Coppola will reportedly write and direct a star-studded remake of “The Beguiled,” a 1971 drama starring Clint Eastwood. Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning are in talks to star....
Rebecca Thomas in Talks to Helm Live-Action ‘Little Mermaid’ Movie Starring Chloe Grace Moretz
Rebecca Thomas (“Electrick Children”) is in early talks to direct the upcoming live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” starring Chloe Grace Moretz (“If I Stay,” “The Clouds of...
September 2015 Film Preview
September sees the premieres of a number of women-centric indie gems we’ve been waiting impatiently for while they’ve been touring the festival circuit. “Misunderstood” by Italian punk-rebel...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Stars as Trans Teen in Multi-Generational Family Drama ‘About Ray’
An extended family comes to terms with the gender transition of one of their own in director Gaby Dellal’s drama “About Ray.” Elle Fanning stars as the titular Ray, a high-school student...
Megan Ellison’s ‘20th Century Women’ to Star Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning
Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning will star in the cross-generational drama “20th Century Women.” Set in California in the late ’70s, the film finds three women — a single...
Elle Fanning to Play Transgender Character in Multigenerational Drama
One of the most moving and original aspects of Jill Soloway’s groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent is seeing a trans character’s life story play out in the context of her (troubled but...
Elle Fanning to Play Mary Shelley in Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Biopic of Frankenstein Author
Elle Fanning continues to impress with her film choices. Her latest anounced project is Wadjda director Haifaa al-Mansour’s A Storm in the Stars, a biopic of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. A...
Quote of the Day: Elle Fanning on Female Characters
In a recent interview for FASHION Magazine, the ultra-talented Elle Fanning discussed the limited roles available to women: There are still a lot of movies where women are dependent on the guy. We...
Trailer Watch: The Final Trailer for Maleficent
The final trailer for Maleficent has been released. As can be said of all of the footage revealed in the trailers, it looks beautiful; the film is gorgeously shot. In a previous featurette for the...
Angelina Jolie and Linda Woolverton Talk Maleficent in New Featurette
A new two-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette about Maleficent reveals that the May 30 release will be part-prequel, part-alternate POV. Screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The...
Trailer Watch: Angelina Jolie in New Maleficent Spot
“There is evil in this world. Hatred. Revenge,” Maleficent declares in the new Maleficent trailer. Then she giggles — not girlishly or coquettishly, but with ironic bemusement, like...
Trailer Watch: Angelina Jolie as Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is all cheekbones and horns in the new teaser trailer for Disney’s Maleficent. The film follows the Wicked template of lending sympathy for the evil queen/stepmother/middle-aged...
Trailer Watch: Ginger & Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
Here's the latest trailer of Ginger & Rosa from Sally Potter. It premiered in Toronto last September and has played the festival circuit last year to good reviews. The film focuses on the...
Cross Post: How To Audition Internationally
Wake up and smell the latte. Opportunity knocks all over the world, and the common passport is talent. We live in an era where casting directors can cast internationally from their own laptops and...
AFI Review: Ginger and Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
In my favorite Anne Sexton poem “Rowing,” one line in particular always sticks out to me: “I wore rubies and bought tomatoes/and now, in my middle age/about nineteen in the head...
Maleficent Starts Production
Here’s the first image from the Angelina Jolie starring movie written by Linda Woolverton. Description: “the untold story of Disney’s most beloved villain, Maleficent, from the 1959 classic...