Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment have today shared a new trailer for Women Talking, the upcoming drama film based on Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel of the same name and inspired by harrowing real-life events. Though the costumes wouldn’t suggest so, Women Talking takes place in 2010, following a group of women who live in an isolated Mennonite colony. When the women realize that the men in their colony have been sexually abusing them for years, they must reckon with their strict Anabaptist views within their harsh new reality. “We know that we’ve not imagined these attacks,” one of the women, Salome (Claire Foy), says tearily in the trailer. “We know that we are bruised and infected and pregnant and some of us are dead.” Another woman, Ona (Rooney Mara), concurs: “We c...
Apple is cooking up some breakfast at Tiffany’s. Per Deadline, Apple Studios is developing a biopic on the life and career of Audrey Hepburn with Rooney Mara starring as the iconic actress. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star will also serve as a producer on the film, while Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) is set to direct. Michael Mitnick, who wrote for Martin Scorcese and Mick Jagger’s short-lived HBO series Vinyl, will pen the biopic’s screenplay. After cutting her teeth as a chorus girl on London’s West End, Hepburn shot to instant stardom with her first leading film role in 1953’s Roman Holiday, which earned her an Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award. She went on to become a legend in the Golden Age of Hollywood, with iconic roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair L...
Joaquin Phoenix may have enjoyed a successful awards season behind Joker, but an even bigger bundle of joy is on the way this summer: he and Rooney Mara are reportedly expecting their first child together. The news comes via Page Six, whose source says Mara may be “as far as six months along in her pregnancy”; that would place a due date sometime in August. The very private celebrity couple have been quarantining together at their home in Los Angeles the last few months. Phoenix, 45, and Mara, 35, first met while on the set of the 2013 Spike Jonze hit Her. However, they didn’t make their public debut until the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The pair reunited on screen for Mary Magdalene the following year, and then later celebrated their engagement in July 2019. Editors’ Picks ...