Beloved by legions of fans for her turns in lighter fare—most notably, Gilmore Girls and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series—Alexis Bledel has broken new ground with Hulu's dystopian series The Handmaid's Tale, evoking the ferocity of an unwoman scorned. In Season 1, Bledel's handmaid Emily displayed a…

Fans of the two Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films are growing excited by the news that a third installment is in the works. Actress Alexis Bledel let the initial word slip during an appearance Thursday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a gushing fanboy of the beloved teenage film. In response to…

In a somewhat predictable turn of events, Alexis Bledel picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series on Sunday at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and she used the platform of her acceptance speech to speak about the show’s partnership with Change.org. A move she said was designed “to encourage us…

Alexis Bledel will be back for Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale. Gilmore Girls alumna Bledel, who guest-starred in Season 1, will return as a series regular in Season 2. The 13-episode second season is scheduled to go back into production this fall and will premiere in 2018. Created by Bruce Miller, the drama series…

"It certainly wasn't the ending I was expecting," Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life star Alexis Bledel said about the final four words that closed out the Netflix’s revival series. Speaking at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event last month, co-star Lauren Graham expressed similar sentiments about the ending. “I didn…

Gilmore Girls stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel joined Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys panel Sunday morning to discuss their time on the Netflix revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life and whether they’d be game to continue the series. “Now it has become a dialogue with the fans of the show; if it all existed…

Coming off reprising her starring role in the Gilmore Girls movies for Netflix, Alexis Bledel has signed to recur on the upcoming Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, from MGM Television and writer Bruce Miller. The drama series, based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in the dystopia of…

Netflix has dropped a bunch of new photos from Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, giving us some of the first episodic looks at Lorelai, Rory and Jess and the series’ signature Friday Night Dinner. One of the images captures Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) deep in conversation with Uncle Luke (Scott Patterson) inside the…

As advertorial tie-ins go, this one isn’t so hard to like. As part of the ramp up to the return of Gilmore Girls later this year on Netflix, Alexis Bledel appeared in this video with First Lady Michelle Obama, posted earlier today on Twitter. Helping the First Lady promote her Let Girls Learn initiative, Bledel…

Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel star in Violet & Daisy as a pair of hit girls swept up in intrigue with their latest target (James Gandolfini). Precious writer Geoffrey Fletcher wrote and directed the 2011 Toronto Film Fest entry. Cinedigm is promising a June release but has yet to lock down a date. Check out the…

Wild Bunch acquired overseas rights to Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher that was screened as a work in progress at Toronto. Wild Bunch will sell at AFM while CAA handles domestic rights. Fletcher wrote the script and produced with Bonnie Timmerman. The film stars Saoirse…

Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and already there are fireworks. Deadline broke news yesterday that Harvey W…