One of the films on my Top 10 Movies of 2018 list was Private Life, so naturally I was thrilled to be able to moderate that movie’s panel during the Netflix portion of Deadline’s first-ever The Contenders New York event, held last month in the Big Apple.
In front of a packed audience of invited AMPAS and key guild…
In Private Life, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti portray a middle-aged couple struggling with infertility. The film paints a funny but unflinching portrait of the efforts to have a child, from painful IVF injections, to anxious adoption interviews, to the humbling search for an egg donor. Throughout the journey, they…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs actor Tim Blake Nelson first received the script for the Coen brothers-directed project back in 2002. Private Life director Tamara Jenkins revealed she wasn't sure she wanted to broach the topic of infertility before embarking on Private Life. And Maggie Gyllenhaal said she needed to…
Taking a 10-year hiatus from filmmaking after seeing her Sundance-premiering The Savages collect two Oscar nominations, writer/director Tamara Jenkins is back at the fest in a productive year, with not one, but two films that are drawing strong buzz in Park City. There’s Juliet, Naked—based on a Nick Hornby…
EXCLUSIVE:Paul Giamatti is set to join Kathryn Hahn in Netflix’s Private Life, Tamara Jenkins’ feature drama about fertility and the pursuit of happiness. Private Life is about an author (Hahn) who is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting the relationship between she and her husband on…
EXCLUSIVE:Kathryn Hahn, the scene-stealer from the STX comedy Bad Moms who will be in the sequel to the raucous R-rated film, is in negotiations to star in the Netflix feature drama Private Life. Shewill star as an author who is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting the relationship…