Television
Apple TV+ thriller “Surface” will be back for a second season. Deadline reports that the streamer has renewed the series starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman trying to build herself back...
Trailers
Gugu Mbatha-Raw crosses paths with another predator in “The Girl Before.” The “Morning Show” star toplines the four-part HBO Max series about a woman offered the opportunity...
Films
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set to star in Isabel Coixet’s next feature. The “Morning Show” actress will star in “Nobody’s Heart,” a romance based on the life of Portuguese...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw has yet another series in the works. The “Morning Show” alumna is already slated to topline “Surface,” an upcoming Apple TV+ psychological thriller...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is getting her own Apple TV+ show. The “Morning Show” alumna will follow up her supporting role on the streamer’s flagship series with “Surface,” a...
“Why should any woman have to earn her place in the world by looking a particular way?” asks Keira Knightley in a new trailer for “Misbehaviour.” The dramedy is based on a...
“Life is not kind,” says Gemma Arterton in a new trailer for “Summerland.” “Anguish is inevitable. What matters is how you deal with it.” Jessica Swale’s...
“Misbehaviour” opened in UK theaters just before cinemas were closed due to COVID-19. Following its opening weekend, “all cinemas in the country were shuttered,” Deadline...
In 1969, 100 million people tuned in live to Miss World — “more viewers than for the moon landings or the World Cup final,” we learn in a trailer for “Misbehaviour.”...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw just played a woman with superpowers in Julia Hart’s “Fast Color” and now she’ll portray a real-life hero. The “Wrinkle in Time” actress is set to...
Julia Hart’s new film sees Gugu Mbatha-Raw playing a woman with superhuman capabilities without superhuman ambitions. As someone in “Fast Color’s” trailer phrases...
“Fast Color” is heading to theaters. Deadline reports that distribution rights to Julia Hart’s sci-fi have been obtained by Lionsgate’s label Codeblack Films. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“The...
Festivals
Venice Film Festival has announced the offerings for this year’s Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a “dedicated program of film screenings and revealing conversations by some of the most exciting...
News
Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood is re-teaming with her leading lady from 2014’s “Beyond the Lights” to bring Roxane Gay’s debut novel to the big screen. Prince-Bythewood will direct...
The cover of Vanity Fair’s 2016 Hollywood Issue has been unveiled, and all of the stars being celebrated are women. This is, of course, no accident: The cover is making a statement. Admittedly,...
Since women are pushing for seats on the Academy board in record-breaking numbers, we hoped that, after being faced with a whole lot of very warranted criticism, the Academy would show an effort to...
Interviews, News
Given the central role that overt sexuality plays in female pop and hip-hop stardom, I’m sure we’ve all wondered what the performers are thinking as they parade down the red carpet, on stage, or...
News, Videos, Women Writers
Amma Asante’s Belle premiered last month at TIFF. The film tells the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) the bi-racial, illegitimate daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in the 18th...
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