After two seasons, the fan furore around Big Little Lies shows little sign of waning, with repeated calls for a third go-round of the HBO limited series. One woman with the inside track on whether that will happen is Nicole Kidman, who not only gave an intricately-layered performance as her character Celeste Wright…
When Charlize Theron — the driving force as producer and star of Bombshell — sought a director to capture the plight that ambitious women faced in a sexist Fox News culture fostered by creator Roger Ailes, the easy choice would have been a woman. Instead, she chose Jay Roach, helmer of the Austin Powers and Meet the Pa…
It took two and-a-half hours, every day of Bombshell's shoot, for Charlize Theron to transform into Megyn Kelly; but deciding to take on the role in the first place took much longer. "I loved this script so much, and I didn't want to fuck the movie up," she says. The project came to her Denver and Delilah company for…
BREAKING: Robert Eggers, the director behind the critically acclaimed horror film, The Witch, has potentially assembled a starry cast for his latest project, The Northman, set up at New Regency. Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, The Witch’sAnya Taylor-Joy, Bill Skarsgård, and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe…
Bombshelllives up to its title, and then some, and the explosive story of the scandal in which a group of women brought down Fox News founder and ruler Roger Ailes entered the Oscar race in a big way Sunday.
Stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph…
Very quietly this morning, Lionsgate dropped the trailer and revealed the title for their Jay Roach-directed, Charles Randolph scripted movie about the women who take on Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes: Bombshell.
While we don’t get a glance at John Lithgow’s Roger Ailes in the current trailer, we see Margot…
New York Women in Film & Television and The Writers Lab co-founders Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon have revealed the 12 screenwriters to participate in The Writers Lab, which celebrates its fifth year. The program has also unveiled their roster of mentors.
The Writers Lab launched in 2015 and is the only lab in the…
It was pure courtroom drama and David E. Kelley playing to his strengths for the Season 2 finale of Big Little Lies on Sunday – and viewers flocked to it in record numbers.
The "I Want to Know" climax of the custody battle that has fueled most of the Emmy-winning HBO series' latest cycle saw Nicole Kidman finally face…
The 2019 Toronto Film Festival has unveiled an early list of Gala Premieres and Special Presentations for the festival that runs September 5-15, and there will be no shortage of star power. Among the highlights: Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Christian Bale and Matt Damon in Ford V Ferrari, Eddie…
Spoiler alert: The following contains spoilers for ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2, episode 7.
The big question in Big Little Lies' Season 2 finale episode "I Want to Know" was always going to be whether the Monterey Five would get busted. The answer is, sort of, but not exactly.
Then there was Celeste's revenge in court…
EXCLUSIVE: Not yet a year into his expensive five-year deal with Netflix, Ryan Murphy is about to deliver his biggest get for the streamer. Deadline hears he will direct and produce the feature adaptation of the Tony-nominated stage musicalThe Promand has secured a cast that puts Netflix in new starpower territory.
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Big Little Lies opened strong for HBO in its Season 2 premiere. The first episode of the second season drew 2.5 million viewers for the night, including both linear plays and HBO streaming services. That’s a 34% increase from the first season premiere night (1.8 million viewers) and in line with the first season…
