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Amandla Stenberg Joins “Star War” Series “The Acolyte,” Leslye Headland Directing
Amandla Stenberg is joining one of the most beloved franchises of all time. The “Hunger Games” grad will lead “Star Wars: The Acolyte.” “Honored is an...
“Russian Doll” Co-Creator Leslye Headland Has a “Star Wars” Series in the Works at Disney+
After exploring a glitch in the time-space continuum in “Russian Doll,” an unexpected romance between a serial cheater and a womanizer in “Sleeping with Other People,” and the...
Leslye Headland to Direct “American Huckster” for HBO Films
Leslye Headland is following up a never-ending birthday party with an epic con story. The “Russian Doll” co-creator has been tapped to direct “American Huckster” for HBO...
Trailer Watch: Natasha Lyonne Can’t Escape Her Birthday Party, or Death, in “Russian Doll”
“Let’s fuck this party in the mouth,” announces Natasha Lyonne in the first trailer for “Russian Doll.” The upcoming Netflix comedy sees the “Orange Is the New...
Women Directors Missing From This Year’s Pilot Season
The new TV pilot season brings some good but mostly bad news for women directors. First, the good news: Leslye Headland (“Sleeping With Other People,” “Bachelorette”) and Jennifer Getzinger...
Trailer Watch: Alison Brie Learns About Masturbation in Dirty Rom Com ‘Sleeping with Other People’
Lainey (Alison Brie) is a serial cheater and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) is a sex addict. While they aren’t, shall we say, an ideal match, the red-band trailer for writer-director Leslye Headland’s...
Watch: Leslye Headland, Jacqueline Bisset, Others Discuss Gender and Hollywood at Nantucket Festival
This past weekend at the Nantucket Film Festival, EPIX presented a panel called Women Behind The Words that offered “stories from Hollywood’s frontlines.” Mystelle Brabbée, the executive...
Trailer Watch: Sex Addicts Fall in Uneasy Love in Leslye Headland’s ‘Sleeping With Other People’
Romance blooms between a serial cheater and a womanizer in the trailer for “Sleeping with Other People,” the latest offering from “Bachelorette” writer-director Leslye Headland. More than a...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Leslye Headland — ‘Sleeping with Other People’
Leslye Headland started her writing career in theater, with such plays as “Bachelorette” (Second Stage), “Assistance” (Playwrights Horizons), and the rest of the “Seven Deadly Plays”...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Leslye Headland — ‘Sleeping with Other People’
Leslye Headland started her writing career in theater, with such plays as Bachelorette (Second Stage), Assistance (Playwrights Horizons), and the rest of the “Seven Deadly Plays” series (IAMA...
Leslye Headland, Amy Berg, Jennifer Siebel Newsom to Debut Films at Sundance 2015
Nine women-directed narrative and documentary features (out of a total of 29 premieres) will make their debuts at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among the much-anticipated first-time...
Krysten Ritter, Margo Martindale and Melanie Lynskey Nab New Pilots
Some of our favorite underappreciated actresses have been cast in pilots for the upcoming Fall TV season. The hilarious Krysten Ritter of the dearly departed Apartment 23 has been cast as the lead in...
2013 Women-Created TV Pilots
It’s prime pilot season for the networks. After all the news that’s been coming out in the last six months or so about women-created shows, we wanted to see how that’s holding up...
Interview with Bachelorette Writer/Director-Leslye Headland
I got the chance to talk with the writer and director of Bachelorette Leslye Headland earlier this week. Here are some thoughts on the film. Women and Hollywood: Your film is a subversive look at...
Bachelorette — Written and Directed by Leslye Headland
While it might be tempting to compare Bachelorette to Bridesmaids because they are both about women and weddings — you would be doing so at your peril. Whereas Bridesmaids was about the utter...
The LA Times Talks to Three Women Directors — Where is the Female Equivalent of Woody Allen?
Check out the LA Times piece on Ava DuVernay, Jullie Delpy and Leslye Headland. While things still suck for women directors, it kind of feels like the conversation is shifting. Maybe I am being too...
Red Band Trailer for Bachelorette Written and Directed by Leslye Headland
Talk about raunch. Yowza. On demand — August 10, in theatres September 8. Synopsis: On the night before an old friend’s wedding, three frisky bridesmaids go searching for a little fun but...
Trailer Watch: Bachelorette — Written and Directed by Leslye Headland
This is based on the play by Leslye Headland and premiered at Sundance in January. The more I see information about this movie, the more I want to see it. I am also excited to see more of Rebel...
Locarno Film Festival Lineup: 2 Women Directed Films In Competition
On Wednesday, the Locarno Film Festival announced its lineup for in-competition films and the Piazza Grande program. Held from August 1–11, Locarno is one of the world’s oldest film festivals,...