Tag: Vanity Fair

  • Joss Whedon Still Loves His Controversial ‘Wonder Woman’ Script: ‘People Say It’s Not Woke Enough’

    Joss Whedon Still Loves His Controversial ‘Wonder Woman’ Script: ‘People Say It’s Not Woke Enough’

    Just as Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman” was opening in theaters to critical and commercial success, Joss Whedon’s 2006 script for the film leaked online. The June 2017 leak didn’t go well for the “Avengers” director, who received backlash for writing what many believed to be a sexist Wonder Woman story.Whedon’s version took place in modern…

  • Key deals announced for ITV’s ‘Vanity Fair’ with Olivia Cooke

    Key deals announced for ITV’s ‘Vanity Fair’ with Olivia Cooke

    Ready Player One star lines up alongside Johnny Flynn and Michael Palin in Thackeray adaptation.Vanity Fair, the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, has pre-sold into eight territories at Miptv.Deals have been struck for Australia (BBC First), New Zealand (Tvnz), Spain (Movistar+), Canada (CBC), the Netherlands (Npo 2), Sweden…

  • Netflix Threatens to Pull Five Movies From Cannes, Including Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma’ — Report

    Netflix Threatens to Pull Five Movies From Cannes, Including Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma’ — Report

    The Netflix/Cannes divide appears to be growing. Vanity Fair reports that the streaming giant is threatening to pull five films from the festival following the news that only movies that receive a theatrical release in France will receive a spot in the vaunted Official Competition.The five films in question are Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Jeremy Saulnier’s…

  • Lena Waithe Talks ‘Ready Player One’ and Reveals She Wants to Make a Mary Tyler Moore Biopic

    Lena Waithe Talks ‘Ready Player One’ and Reveals She Wants to Make a Mary Tyler Moore Biopic

    Hollywood is having a Lena Waithe moment.As an actress, she made her big screen debut this weekend with Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, where she plays Aech, a loyal best friend to Wade Watts/ Parzival (Tye Sheridan) in the virtual universe the Oasis. The film’s opening comes on the heels of a buzzed-about Vanity Fair…

  • Film Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’

    Film Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’

    Remember the name Cory Finley. The astonishingly gifted writer-director of “Thoroughbreds” is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke (“Vanity Fair”) and Anya Taylor-Joy (“Split”), the two note-perfect lead actresses who star in Finley’s icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper-class riff on “Heavenly Creatures,” “Fun,” and the entire wicked subgenre in…

  • Female writers slam glass ceiling in UK TV drama

    Female writers slam glass ceiling in UK TV drama

    76 women sign open letter to commissioners that claims British drama is “overwhelmingly written by men”.A group of more than 70 female writers has accused UK drama bosses of failing to give them opportunities to ‘graduate’ from soaps to flagship primetime shows (reports Broadcast).In an open letter to TV drama commissioners, 76 women, whose work…