With seven feature film versions the need for another is questionable, but Greta Gerwig had a distinct vision for a new circa 2019 take on Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen novel, Little Women and so, exactly 25 Christmas seasons since the last version in 1994 that starred Winona Ryder, we have a beautifully gift-wrapped…
The Oscar show this year will be led by two women with strong producing credentials, sending us this message: There's a new generation of self-styled “badass” women filmmakers out there, ready to leave their mark on the film culture.
The arrival of awards season, however, may carry a different portent: The possibility…
There's a scene in James Mangold's Ford v Ferrarithat had TIFF audiences almost rolling in the aisles. Tracy Letts as Henry Ford II is persuaded by Matt Damon's Caroll Shelby to take Ford's latest racecar for a spin, but the bossman is vastly underprepared for the reality of 100mph. When the car finally stops, all…
What do you think of the idea of the beloved Little Women — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — as material girls?
On today's Sony Pictures panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig said she wanted to bring out the power of money over women's choices in Little Women's Victorian…
Louisa May Alcott's 19th century novel Little Women has proven as enduring as cinema itself: as well as two silent-movie adaptations, the story has been filmed four times since George Cukor's 1933 version, making Greta Gerwig's the fifth in less than 100 years.
To discuss the film, Gerwig came to Deadline's The…
Skipping the festival circuit just as Bombshell did, Sony’s holiday-season gift, Little Women, was unveiled Wednesday night at a DGA Theater screening for SAG and select media, putting another piece of the Oscar puzzle into clearer focus. Greta Gerwig wrote and directed and, if you wondered after seven — count ’em…
Here is the first trailer for Little Women, writer-director Greta Gerwig’s awards-season follow-up to Lady Bird that takes on the classic yet timely Louisa May Alcott novel. Check it out above.
It unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan), reflects back and forth on her fictional life. It’s the story…
Greta Gerwig and Oscar Isaac will star in an Off Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed by the Tony-winning Sam Gold for New York Theater Workshop’s 2019/20 season, the NYTW announced today.
Performance schedules and additional casting will be announced later, but the production is expected to…
Lady Bird helmer Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (The Meyerowitz Stories) have come aboard to pen the screenplay for the Warner BrosBarbiemovie, which is being headlined by Margot Robbie. Gerwig also is eyeing the director’s seat.
Robbie and Tom Ackerley are producing via their LuckyChap Entertainment shingle with…
EXCLUSIVE: More casting news on Sony’s Little Women remake: Chris Cooper, an Oscar winner for his performance in the 2002 film Adaptation., is the latest to join the list of A-lister set for the upcoming adaptation from Greta Gerwig.
Cooper’s recent credits include Live by Night, Cars 3, and Hulu’s 11.22.63 series. In…
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk is set for Sony Pictures’ Little Women, the remake which is being written and directed by Greta Gerwig. The previously announced cast includes Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza…
EXCLUSIVE: English actor James Norton, last seen on the big screen in Sony’s Flatliners remake, is in talks to reunite with the Culver City-based studio for Little Women, the Greta Gerwig-helmed film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic. If cast, he could potentially join Meryl Streep, Emma Stone…
