#Rom-Com
Trailer Watch: Reese Witherspoon Leads Aline Brosh McKenna Rom-Com “Your Place or Mine”
Contrary to rumors suggesting otherwise, a sequel to Nancy Meyers’ “The Holiday” is not in the works. But we do have another house-swapping rom-com from a woman director to look...
Pick of the Day: “Mr. Malcolm’s List”
Are you a fan of “Bridgerton,” but wish it hadn’t clumsily acknowledged its color-blind casting with a nonsensical “one interracial romance solved racism forever”...
Meg Ryan to Direct & Star in “What Happens Later,” Bleecker Street Lands Rights to the Rom-Com
Meg Ryan is set to direct her second feature and returning to the genre she’s best known for. The “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally…” actress will...
Trailer Watch: Life Gets a Little More Complicated for Jessie and Tom in “Starstruck” Season 2
“Starstruck” is back — and Jessie (Rose Matafeo) and Tom (Nikesh Patel) are back together. A trailer has dropped for Season 2 of the HBO Max rom-com series, created and co-written...
Pick of the Day: “Fresh”
Your mileage may vary on “Fresh.” A rom-com-horror hybrid exploring the modern dynamics of power, dating, gender, and sex via a pretty twisted allegory, it’s sure to be polarizing...
Trailer Watch: Daisy Edgar-Jones’ New Relationship Takes a Horrifying Turn in Mimi Cave’s “Fresh”
Disillusioned by dating — the constant swiping through apps, the awkward conversations, the slim pickings — Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones, “Normal People”) is about ready to give up...
Pick of the Day: “Mark, Mary & Some Other People”
From the very beginning of their relationship, Mary (Hayley Law) and Mark (Ben Rosenfield) do things a little unconventionally. In the opening scenes of “Mark, Mary & Some Other...
Emma Roberts and Tiffany Paulsen Re-Team for Rom-Com “About Fate”
Emma Roberts and “Holidate” screenwriter Tiffany Paulsen have another holiday-themed rom-com on the way. They’ll follow up their hit Netflix pic with “About Fate.”...
Emma Thompson and Lily James Will Star in Rom-Com from Screenwriter Jemima Khan
Emma Thompson and Lily James will ask Tina Turner’s eternal question in a new romantic comedy from Working Title. They, alongside Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”), will star in...
Reese Witherspoon Has Two Netflix Rom-Coms on the Way
Reese Witherspoon is joining forces with another streamer. The Oscar and Emmy winner just starred in and exec produced Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” and Apple TV+’s...
Sundance 2020 Women Directors: Meet Eleanor Wilson – “Save Yourselves!”
Eleanor Wilson is a writer, director, and producer from Adelaide, Australia. Her award-winning short films have played at festivals throughout the world, with her first, “Possum,” winning...
EIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Sasha Collington – “Love Type D”
Sasha Collington is an alumnus of the Binger Writers Lab and the Berlinale Talent Campus. She was one of four writers to win the inaugural Betty Box and Peter Rogers Comedy Writing Award for her...
“Saving Face” Writer-Director Alice Wu Sets Lesbian Teen Romance at Netflix
Alice Wu is following up her beloved 2004 romance “Saving Face” with another tale of secrets, Chinese-American culture and expectations, and LGBTQ love. According to Deadline, the...
Jennifer Lopez Will Star in Kat Coiro Rom-Com “Marry Me”
Jennifer Lopez is returning to the screen — and the stage. The multi-hyphenate will portray a pop star in “Marry Me,” a rom-com from director Kat Coiro and STXfilms. According to...
Kristen Stewart to Topline Clea DuVall Rom-Com “Happiest Season”
Clea DuVall’s next film has found its star. Kristen Stewart is in talks to join the TriStar Pictures LGBTQ romantic comedy, Deadline reports. “The Happiest Season” marks...
Trailer Watch: Maika Monroe Hears an Unusual Pickup Line in “After Everything”
Mia (Maika Monroe, “It Follows”) isn’t impressed when Elliot (Jeremy Allen White, “Shameless”) starts chatting her up at subway stop in the trailer for “After...
Trailer Watch: Zoey Deutch Is a Personal Assistant on a Mission in Netflix Rom-Com “Set It Up”
Personal assistants are all too experienced in swallowing their pride and performing thankless miracles, but when your boss is asking you to wake them up from a nap with a lullaby — and not...
Billie Piper to Make Directorial Debut with Anti-Rom-Com
With over two decades of acting experience under her belt, Billie Piper is stepping behind the camera. The former “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” and “Doctor Who” star will make...