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The idea for Emerald Fennell's debut movie Promising Young Woman came to her in a single image: while a seemingly drunk woman is being bothered by a man, she turns the tables by suddenly sitting up, stone-cold sober, and asking, "What are you doing?" This happens quite a few times in her film, which sees college…

Emerald Fennell's directorial debut Promising Young Woman could have easily been your classic revenge fantasy thriller, with its tale of Cassie, a grief-stricken, silently enraged woman on a mission to expose every last sexual predator in town. Only it's so much more. Styled like an entrancing '90s romcom, it…

"Emerald [Fennell] wanted Cassie to look much more cheerful than she actually was. A character like that, that's kind of depressed, and doesn't have much of a life, and is kind of living in the past, you might think they would just not care about the way they look, or just dress darkly, or not be as perky—pastels, and…

If there was ever any doubt, and I assure you there wasn’t, Carey Mulligan’s tour-de-force turn in Promising Young Woman cements her as one of the true acting greats of her, or anyone else’s, generation. Navigating an enormously tricky landscape as a 30-year-old woman haunted by a tragic event in her teenage years and…

In Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan’s Cassie takes her revenge in very unexpected ways. Though it’s not stated in this new trailer from Focus Features exactly what prompted her to seek retribution (for herself or, it’s hinted, someone else), at least one exchange points the way. When a male…

Andrew Lloyd Webber casually announced that his contemporary musical version of Cinderella, with a book by The Crown actress/Killing Eve writer Emerald Fennell, will arrive on Broadway next year. During an interview on UK’s Good Morning Britain (watch it below) this week, the Cats composer, asked about his unrelenting…

EXCLUSIVE: Clancy Brown (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Thor: Ragnarok) is the latest to join Focus Features and FilmNation Entertainment's Promising Young Woman thriller from Emerald Fennell. Carey Mulligan stars in the pic as Cassie, who everyone said was a promising young woman until a tragic event abruptly derailed…

Focus Features has partnered with FilmNation Entertainment on Promising Young Woman, the thriller that stars Carey Mulligan and marks the feature directorial debut of Emerald Fennell, who will write it. Fennell will produce along with Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara for LuckyChap Entertainment and Ben…

The breakout success of the BBC America series Killing Eve has become one of the most buzzworthy dramas on television specifically with the critically acclaimed performances by Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw and Sandra Oh, who won a Golden Globe and SAG award for her role as the titular Eve. The trio of actors took the stage…