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EXCLUSIVE: Shunori Ramanathan and Victor Slezak have joined the cast of the Michael Keaton-starrer What Is Life Worth. The true-life biographical drama is directed by The Kindergarten Teacher‘s Sara Colangelo and also stars Stanley Tucci. Principal photography is set to begin next month in New York. The Black List…

EXCLUSIVE: The Kindergarten Teacher‘s Sara Colangelo has been set to direct MadRiver Pictures’ true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. As Deadline reported out of the EFM last year, Michael Keaton is starring in the project; Stanley Tucci has also now joined to co-star. Principal photography is set to begin…

As with her previous work in projects like Secretary and The Honorable Woman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, doesn't shy away from the raw underside of humanity in Netflix's The Kindergarten Teacher. In the titular role of Lisa Spinelli, Gyllenhaal explores the downward spiral of a woman projecting her poetry ambitions onto an…

Films by three female alumni of the Hamptons Film Festival’s screenwriters lab have been confirmed for the lineup of the festival’s 26th annual edition in October. They include Sara Colangelo's The Kindergarden Teacher, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, which will open the 26th edition in October. Other alums with films in…

“I'm interested in what it means to make a feminine movie – and that's different I guess from feminist, or maybe it isn't,” Maggie Gyllenhaal said yesterday, sitting down with writer/director Sara Colangelo to discuss The Kindergarten Teacher. An alum of Sundance’s Writers and Directors Labs, Colangelo’s second…

EXCLUSIVE: Women helping other women, this is what it looks like: Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star in The Kindergarten Teacher, a feature based on writer/director Nadav Lapid's acclaimed Israeli film of the same name that is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Pie Films. The film…