#Women Producers
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...
Queen Latifah’s “Equalizer” Reboot, “Silence of the Lambs” Sequel “Clarice” Get CBS Series Pickups
Two women-driven dramas are among CBS’ first series orders for the 2020-2021 broadcast season. The Hollywood Reporter confirms the Queen Latifah-led “Equalizer” reboot and...
Anatomy of a Film: A Conversation with the Creatives Behind “How to Build a Girl”
The Girls Club is hosting a conversation with three of the creatives of “How to Build a Girl,” a recently released coming-of-age comedy starring Beanie Feldstein. We’ll be chatting...
Emma Straub Developing Her Novel “All Adults Here” for TV, Will Write and EP with Sarah Heyward
Emma Straub’s latest novel, “All Adults Here,” was released only a few days ago, but it’s already being developed for the screen. The author is set to pen and exec produce a...
Numa Perrier Developing Erotic Thriller Series “Toxic” for Macro Television Studios
Numa Perrier will follow up “Jezebel,” her portrait of a cam girl, with a thriller series about a couple who connect primarily via titillation. Deadline reports the actress and filmmaker...
New Prod Company Focusing on Young Queer Women Launches, Options “Amelia Westlake Was Never Here”
Up and coming UK producers Loran Dunn, Sorcha Bacon, and Savannah James-Bayly have launched their own production company, Teen Club, focusing on stories about young queer women. According to Screen...
Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi Are Developing a TV Series Based on “Cold” Podcast
“Cold” is heading to the small screen. Deadline reports that Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions’ optioned the podcast from KSL with plans to develop a TV...
Jenji Kohan and “Orange Is the New Black” Team Line Up Social Distancing Anthology at Netflix
The COVID-19 crisis has halted production on most film and television projects for the foreseeable future — but Jenji Kohan and her fellow “Orange Is the New Black” production team...
Trailer Watch: Comedians Pay Tribute to Their Moms in “Call Your Mother”
“You think you got your sense of humor all by yourself? Uh-uh, you know where that comes from,” Tig Notaro says in the trailer for “Call Your Mother.” The documentary special...
Connie Britton Developing HBO Max Docuseries Based on Rebecca Traister’s “All the Single Ladies”
Connie Britton and her producing partner, Elyse Klaits, are bringing a project about the role, treatment, and influence of unmarried women in the U.S to HBO Max. The Hollywood Reporter confirms they...
Natasha Rothwell, Abbi Jacobson, & Ilana Glazer Team Up for Animated Comedy Central Pilot “Malltown”
An “Insecure” actress and writer is joining forces with “Broad City’s” stars and creators on an animated project. Natasha Rothwell, who plays Kelly on HBO’s...
Paula Vogel and Daryl Roth Launch New Play Commission at Vineyard Theatre
Frequent collaborators Paula Vogel and Daryl Roth are teaming up yet again — this time to support established playwrights. The respective Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned To Drive”...
Remaking Hollywood – Conversation with Lisa Cortés, Anne Carey, & Mary Jane Skalski
The Girls Club’s latest Remaking Hollywood: How to Build a Better, More Inclusive Future conversation will center producers Lisa Cortés, Anne Carey, and Mary Jane Skalski — how they are...
Going Behind the Scenes of “Unorthodox” with Co-Creator and Exec Producer Anna Winger
Anna Winger is a Berlin-based American writer-producer whose new miniseries, “Unorthodox,” recently made its debut on Netflix. The show, in English and Yiddish, sees a young woman bravely leaving...
Annabel Oakes Will Write and Exec Produce HBO Max’s “Grease” Spinoff
“Transparent” alumna Annabel Oakes will offer a fresh spin on the “Summer Nights” of yore. She’s been tapped to write the pilot for “Grease: Rydell High,”...
Nun Thriller “Mercy House” in the Works at CBS Access from Corinne Brinkerhoff & Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer is working on a thriller. The Peabody and Emmy-winning stand-up, actress, screenwriter, director, and producer has boarded a project about renegade nuns. She’s signed on to exec...
Exec Tara Duncan Inks Deal with Hulu, Lines Up Adaptation of “The Other Black Girl”
Former Netflix executive Tara Duncan is going into business with Hulu. Deadline confirms the “She’s Gotta Have It” exec producer has signed an overall deal with the streamer —...
Film Adaptation of Wallis Simpson Biography “The American Duchess” in the Works
Wallis Simpson and her course-of-history-changing marriage to King Edward VIII have been explored in projects such as “The Crown” and “W.E.” Now her tale — which is...
Trailer Watch: Secrets, Games, and Sex Abound in Hulu’s “Normal People” Adaptation
Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) are really into each other. But they are very different people from very different worlds. She’s a rich girl from a cold, isolated family,...
Alyssa Milano Exec Producing “Surge,” Doc About Women Candidates in 2018 Midterms
The longer the coronavirus crisis rages on, the more obvious it is that we need new, better people in office. You know, ones who aren’t science deniers. Luckily, there is a documentary that...
Pick of the Day: “There’s Something in the Water”
Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. Ellen Page has been known...
Kari Skogland Is Bringing “An Innocent Fashion” to the Small Screen
Kari Skogland is developing a small screen adaptation of R.J. Hernández’s “An Innocent Fashion.” The Emmy-nominated “Handmaid’s Tale” director will exec produce and...
Frankie Shaw to Direct Adaptation of T Kira Madden’s “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls”
Frankie Shaw has added yet another project to her slate. The “SMILF” alumna, who is already committed to develop “Wifey,” an HBO limited series based on a Judy Blume novel,...
Quote of the Day: Reese Witherspoon Reflects on Her Career and Hollywood’s Evolution
“I can remember being in pictures in which I was the only woman on the set and there would be 150 men,” Reese Witherspoon recalled in a new Vanity Fair profile. “Maybe there would be a couple...
Rights to Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” Acquired by Potboiler Television
A TV adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning “Girl, Woman, Other” is in the works. A press release has announced that Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood’s Potboiler...
Lucy Alibar Will Pen “Where the Crawdads Sing” Adaptation
Hello Sunshine and 3000 Pictures have enlisted an Oscar-nominated screenwriter to pen their adaptation of “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Lucy Alibar will bring Delia Owen’s critically...
Ava DuVernay Developing “Wings of Fire” TV Adaptation for Warner Bros. Animation
“A Wrinkle in Time” director Ava DuVernay is bringing another beloved children’s fantasy tale to the screen. According to a press release, the multi-hyphenate is developing “a...
Women of Color Directing All of “Boomerang” Season 2, New Trailer Drops
Dime Davis, Tiffany Johnson , and Katrelle N. Kindred are joining “Boomerang.” The trio — all of whom are women of color — are directing the entirety of the BET...
Kyra Sedgwick to Star in Kari Lizer’s ABC Comedy Pilot “My Village”
Kyra Sedgwick and Kari Lizer are returning to television. The Emmy-winning star of “The Closer” and the creator of “The New Adventures of Old Christine” are teaming up on ABC...
Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi, Fellow Film and Tech Execs Set Up Multicultural Film Fund
Nina Yang Bongiovi’s new venture will support inclusive stories. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Fruitvale Station” producer, alongside fellow Asian American film and tech...
Zoe Saldana and Claudia Forestieri Team Up for “The Gordita Chronicles” at HBO Max
Zoe Saldana and “Good Trouble” writer Claudia Forestieri are working on a family comedy for HBO Max. They’re collaborating on “The Gordita Chronicles,” a coming-of-age...
Marielle Heller to Serve as Showrunner and Direct Toxic Workplace Drama “Five Women”
Harvey Weinstein and Roger Ailes are among the most famous sexual predators to wreak havoc on their employees, but they are just two of the untold number of abusive bosses who have created...
Krysten Ritter and Nahnatchka Khan Re-Team for a Serial Killer Series
Krysten Ritter is following up her role as a reluctant do-gooder in Marvel’s “Jessica Jones” by embracing the darkness within. She’s reuniting with her “Don’t Trust...
Stephanie Allain Signs Multi-Year First-Look Deal with Warner Horizon Scripted Television
Stephanie Allain is coming off her Oscars producing gig with her first TV studio deal. According to Deadline, the veteran producer has inked a multi-year first-look pact with Warner Horizon Scripted...
Cynthia Erivo to Star in Sci-Fi Thriller “Carrier”
Cynthia Erivo kicked off the week at Sunday’s Oscars, where she was up for two awards and performed, and now word comes that the “Harriet” breakout is set to topline another pic...
Minnie Driver Renews Deal with 20th Century Fox TV, Sets New Project Under the Pact
Oscar winner Minnie Driver has extended her overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV and lined up a new dramedy series at FX. Deadline confirms the “Speechless” alumna and her Huge Fan...
Paz Vega to Topline and Produce MGM Comedy Series “Tacowood”
Paz Vega is headed to “Tacowood.” The Cannes award-winning actress is set to star in and produce the MGM International TV comedy series, Deadline reports. The story focuses on a single...
Radha Blank’s Sundance Winner “The 40-Year-Old Version” Lands at Netflix
Radha Blank’s banner week continues. Just days ago her feature directorial debut, “The 40-Year-Old Version,” landed her the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival,...
Toni Collette Will Star in Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” Series Adaptation
Toni Collette is joining another Netflix series. She’ll follow up her Golden Globe-nominated role in “Unbelievable” with “Pieces of Her,” an adaptation of Karin...
Jenny Bicks & Paul Feig’s Adaptation of UK Mockumentary Show “This Country” Gets Pilot Order at Fox
Jenny Bicks explored NYC with “Sex and the City” and the suburbs with “Divorce” — and now she’s heading to small town America. The writer-producer’s...
Julie Delpy Will Write and Star in Netflix/Canal+ Dramedy Series
Julie Delpy is taking on another medium. The prolific multi-hyphenate is set to write, exec produce, and star in a dramedy series that will air on Canal+ in France and Netflix around the rest of the...
Apply Now: Everywoman Studios and Realscreen’s Propelle Accelerator Program
Everywoman Studios, a studio dedicated to women-created content and cause-related social campaigns, and Realscreen, an international magazine focused on non-fiction film and TV, have teamed up on a...
Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph, and Cirocco Dunlap Team Up for Amazon Animated Series “The Hospital”
“Russian Doll” fans have more to look forward to than Season 2 of the Emmy-winning Netflix dramedy. A new project is in the works from series co-creator and star Natasha Lyonne and writer...
Tina Fey Is Adapting the “Mean Girls” Musical for the Big Screen
Gretchen Wieners is getting yet another shot to make fetch happen. A film adaptation of the “Mean Girls” musical is in the works, a press release has announced. Based on the 2004 cult...
Former Teen Vogue Editor Elaine Welteroth’s Memoir Is Getting the TV Treatment
Elaine Welteroth is a judge and associate producer on “Project Runway,” has appeared as herself on “Black-ish” and “Grown-ish,” and penned an episode of the...
Gal Gadot and Vanessa Roth Are Teaming Up for Nat Geo Doc Series About Inspiring Young Women
Gal Gadot is helping pay tribute to other heroines. The “Wonder Woman” star is signed on to exec produce a Nat Geo short-form doc series that “follows the stories of young women...
Laura Dern Will Play a Bartender in Quibi Series “Just One Drink”
Laura Dern coached Scarlett Johansson through a messy divorce in “Marriage Story,” and now the Oscar nominee is set to offer a sympathetic ear to a bunch of other unhappy characters....
Chelsea Winstanley Forms New Production Company, Will Make Her Feature Directorial Debut
Chelsea Winstanley is flying high. She recently made history as the first indigenous woman producer to score an Oscar nod for Best Picture, for “Jojo Rabbit.” Now she’s launched a...
Teaser Watch: Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington Square Off in “Little Fires Everywhere”
A stunned Reese Witherspoon watches her picture-perfect home burn to the ground in a new teaser for “Little Fires Everywhere.” An adaptation of Celeste Ng’s best-selling novel, the...
An Adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s “Binti” Is in the Works at Hulu
“Binti” is making its way to the screen. An adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s award-winning sci-fi novella is in the works at Hulu. The streamer handed out a script order to the TV...
Elizabeth Banks Is Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
Elizabeth Banks is following in the footsteps of the likes of Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, and Meryl Streep. The multi-hyphenate has been named Hasty Pudding’s 2020 Woman of the Year....