Women Talking
‘Women Talking’ Star Kate Hallett, Herman Tommeraas Join ‘Sweetness’ Teen Thriller (Exclusive)
Women Talking breakout star Kate Hallett and Ragnarok star Herman Tømmeraas have nabbed lead roles in the teen thriller Sweetness from director Emma Higgins. Hallet will play Rylee Baker, a 16-year-old who has a chance encounter with her idol, pop star Payton Adler (Tømmeraas), whom she soon discovers is a dysfunctional drug addict. Rylee decides to help […]
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Rooney Mara on How David Fincher Helped Influence Future Role Choices
Rooney Mara says she chooses movie projects these days based on who is seated in the director’s chair and has been doing so for some time. “For me, I really go by the director. I learned that pretty early,” the Women Talking and Girl With a Dragon Tattoo actor said Friday when explaining how she […]
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Erik Lomis CinemaCon Tribute: May His “Light Shine Brightly on Now”
Hollywood studios and theater owners joined together Tuesday to pay tribute to the late Erik Lomis, the larger-than-life veteran distribution executive who was a mentor to many — including top filmmakers — and released numerous Oscar winners and blockbusters throughout his career. “Our industry lost one of its most passionate and intelligent executives. He was […]
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Sarah Polley Asked to Return Her Oscar to Academy in Prank by Her 11-Year-Old Child
Sarah Polley’s Oscar for her Women Talking script has not actually been rescinded by the Film Academy, despite her 11-year-old child’s valiant April Fools’ Day effort to suggest otherwise. The filmmaker, who picked up the vaunted prize for best adapted screenplay last month, shared a letter to Twitter on Saturday that she attributed to her […]
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‘Women Talking’ Producer Dede Gardner On How Sarah Polley’s Film Reflects an Epidemic of “Violence Against Women”
For producer Dede Gardner, Women Talking, like many of her films, is about complicity. The United Artists feature is inspired by real-life events that occurred in a remote Mennonite community where women were repeatedly raped by the men in their colony, and she hopes the film, as it is seen more after being nominated for […]
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Spirit Awards: Seven-Time Nominee ‘Tár’ Only Wins for Cinematography as ‘Bones and All,’ ‘The Inspection,’ ‘Severance’ Shut Out
The host of the 2023 Spirit Awards, Hasan Minhaj, suggested in his monologue that Cate Blanchett was the one to beat at this year’s awards. But instead, Blanchett and her film Tár nearly went home empty-handed, only winning one of the seven awards for which it was nominated. The Focus film won in the best […]
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‘Women Talking’ Star Kate Hallett on the Set’s Safe Space: “I Never Felt Afraid to Be Emotional”
When Kate Hallett, 18, was recording the quiet, moving voiceover that bookends Women Talking, she had a lot going on. Not only was she doing work for her first feature role, she also was finishing up high school in Alberta, where she was in a production of Newsies. “It was bizarre, I will not lie,” […]
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Script to Scene: ‘Women Talking’ Writer-Director Sarah Polley Dissects Key Moment
Polley calls this scene the turning point of the film, where Buckley’s Mariche acquiesces to leave the colony with the other women in hopes of escaping their violent male counterparts. “It’s the moment where she finally receives an apology from her mother, and from her community, in terms of their complicity in her specific abuse, […]
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Sarah Polley on Nixing Difficult Artists From Her Film Sets: “I’m Just Completely Done With It”
Women Talking filmmaker Sarah Polley says she’s still mulling over “a few things” in terms of what project she wants to tackle next, but she knows exactly how she wants to make it. “I would try to populate my set the same way I did with [Women Talking] by working with people who have a […]
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Sarah Polley Has Public Reunion With ‘Adventures of Baron Munchausen’ Co-Star Eric Idle Three Decades After On-Set Trauma
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking features a large ensemble of accomplished and award-winning actresses, so it would not have been a surprise to see one (or several) take the stage Thursday at the Palm Springs Film Awards, where Polley was honored with a director of the year prize. But instead it was Eric Idle, the Monty […]
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Joseph Kosinski, Gina Prince-Bythewood and the THR Director Roundtable
The shot that nearly broke them, the pointlessness of auditions, the gift of final cut — the directors of some of this year’s most powerful movies got together and got real about their craft. In December, JD Dillard (Devotion), Todd Field (Tár), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Joseph Kosinski […]
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Box Office: ‘Avatar 2’ Crossing $900M Globally as New Holiday Movies Get Iced
Outside of Avatar: The Way of Water, a brutal weather system named Storm Elliott is taking the merriment out of holiday moviegoing at the North American box office. The bomb cyclone has brought freezing temperatures, high winds, snow and ice to a wide swath of the country. Traditionally, the Christmas corridor is one of the […]
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