Coming off the enormous success of something like Mad Men is no easy task, but Matthew Weiner, that series’ creator and executive producer, has found an unexpected yet equally satisfying way to do it with the Amazon anthology series The Romanoffs. Every week brings a different story and different cast, but all…
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner appeared right at home alongside former Mad Men star Christina Hendricks on today’s Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys panel on Weiner’s latest creative effort for Amazon Prime Video: The Romanoffs, a wildly innovative eight-part anthology series about modern-day people who either are, or…
EXCLUSIVE:Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Egg, the satire on motherhood helmed by Marianna Palka the premiered this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner and Anna Camp star in the comedy, which will now hit theaters January 18 day-and-date with a digital…
For Jake Scott, taking on American Woman as his latest feature came down to a strong connection to the material at hand, as well as the film’s central character—a woman going through hell. A director known for films including Welcome to the Rileys who happens to be the eldest son of Ridley Scott, Scott’s latest drama…
EXCLUSIVE: “This is a mother’s worst nightmare.” A child’s disappearance is unfathomable, and the nightmare plays out over the course of 11 years in American Woman, Jake Scott’s film starring Sienna Miller that premieres this weekend at Toronto.
Deb (Miller) had her daughter Bridget at a young age, and that daughter…
According to the new teaser trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s forthcoming anthology series The Romanoffs, it is possible for anyone and everyone to be a descendant of the famed Russian royal family.
Amazon’s first anthology series comes from the Emmy Award-winning Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and features eight…
Christina Hendricks is best known for playing Joan Holloway in AMC's Mad Men, a role that earned her six Emmy Award nominations. However, since the end of the period drama in 2015, the Knoxville, Tennessee-born actor has been keen to spread her wings, and her latest role is as one of the leads in female-driven heist…
The Deadline Studio at the Tribeca Film Festival is up and running for five talent-filled days at the NYC fest; including visits by Christina Hendricks (Egg), Ansel Elgort (Jonathan), Karen Gillan (The Party’s Just Beginning), Michael Shannon (State Like Sleep), and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens…
Receiving Risa Mickenberg’s script for Egg—premiering this week in Tribeca—director Marianna Palka had an instant, strong reaction to the material, recognizing something that had the potential to be really special.
“David [Alan Basche] and Alysia [Reiner] sent me the script, and I was, I think, 19 pages into the…
TV critics aren’t sure morally ambiguous women can survive on broadcast TV. The cast and crew of NBC’s midseason drama Good Girls therefore came in for a lot of questions to that point at TCA.
Good Girls is described as a “Thelma & Louise meets Breaking Bad.” Christina Hndricks, Retta and Mae Whitman play…
NBC has released the first trailer for their upcoming Good Girls starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman. The series combines the empowerment of Thelma & Louise, the fun of Bad Moms, and the edge of Breaking Bad for a series that promises a unique dose of heartfelt drama and irreverent comedy.
The series…
The Romanoffs, Matthew Weiner’s followup series to his Emmy winning Mad Men, has started to assemble its cast. Joining the Amazon contemporary anthology series as guest stars are Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and two former Mad Men co-stars, Christina Hendricks and John Slattery. Also cast in the…
