Will 'Promising Young Woman' Get Its 'Joker' Moment?

The Vaughn Stein-directed psychological thriller Every Breath You Take made its theatrical premiere this weekend on 106 screens and added some coins to the specialty box office piggy bank. The film, which also landed on VOD this weekend, is on track to earn an estimated $35K with its debut.

Clayton Davis “Promising Young Woman” producers Margot Robbie and Josey McNamara believe that writer and director Emerald Fennell “can do it all.”“The great thing about Emerald as a filmmaker [is] from that very first moment she pitched us when she delivered the script, she knew the movie in her head instantly,” McNamara tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

Emerald Fennell is reflecting on filming “Promising Young Woman” while nearing the end of her pregnancy.

Promising Young Woman star Carey Mulligan has said her new film unpicks the “normalised” behaviour of predatory men.The actress, who plays Cassie in writer-director Emerald Fennell’s debut, opened up about the film’s themes in regard to her character seeking revenge on “nice guys” taking advantage of women.“We’ve all grown up watching this story told through a different lens, we’ve all seen the guy at the frat party trying to identify the most drunk girl that he can lose his virginity to,”

Promising Young Woman has been the film on everyone’s lips in recent months. It’s been nominated for five Oscars and six BAFTAs and yet we haven’t been able to see it.

Promising Young Woman will finally be released in the UK next month.Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, starring Carey Mulligan, is set to premiere on Sky Cinema and NOW in April after lengthy delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.The film follows a young woman named Cassie who seeks revenge on predatory “nice guys” following a tragedy that occurred in her days at medical school.Mulligan plays Cassie, and stars opposite Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody and

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, which is up for five Oscars this year, will skip cinemas in the UK and debut directly on Sky Cinema. It will be released by the broadcaster on April 16, 10 days before the Oscars. The deal was made by Focus Features and Universal with Sky, all of which are owned by Comcast. The pic premiered at Sundance in 2020 and was released stateside by Focus on December 25, grossing $5.8M to date in the pandemic-hit theatrical market.

If it’s a Sunday evening in March 2021 it must be time for the guild award honors to begin. On this day, the Writer’s Guild of America handed out their annual WGA Awards winners and the two biggest awards gave only a hint of what might happen on Oscar night.

Jasmin Rosemberg I’ll admit, I went into “Promising Young Woman” in the utterly blind way that trauma victims probably shouldn’t go into anything.My decision to rent it was inevitable after reading rave reviews on social media from a wide cross-section of colleagues, young and older, which is perhaps why I also made the mistake of watching it with my mother.

Promising Young Woman, is to write a new DC movie based on comic book heroine Zatanna.Fennell, who is also known for her showrunner work in Killing Eve and acting roles in The Crown and The Danish Girl, will write the forthcoming film for Warner Bros.’s DC Films and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, reports Variety.It will be the first time Zatanna, who is one of the most powerful sorcerers in the DC Extended Universe, is featured in a film franchise.

Hot off of winning the WGA Award for original screenplay on Sunday night, Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to write the DC movie Zatanna for Bad Robot and Warner Bros. This deal has been done for a while, I understand. No word yet as to whether Fennell will direct.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterEmerald Fennell, the Oscar-nominated director of “Promising Young Woman,” is taking on a different kind of vigilante. She has been tapped to write “Zatanna,” a big-screen adaptation of the DC Comics heroine.The movie, from Warner Bros.’ DC Films and J.J.

Promising Young Woman and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm topped the 2021 Writers Guild Awards, winning best original and adapted screenplay, respectively.

Another guild award is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. The Writers Guild Awards are in the rearview mirror now, with some definite Oscar implications.

If it’s a Sunday evening in March 2021 it must be time for the guild award honors to begin. On this day, the Writer’s Guild of America handed out their annual WGA Awards winners and the two biggest awards gave only a hint of what might happen on Oscar night.

NEW YORK -- Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honors, best adapted screenplay.At the guild's virtual, pre-recorded 73rd annual awards, the biggest winners were a pair of awards-season dark horses. Best original screenplay went to the script for the feminist revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” by writer-director Emerald Fennell.

Also Read: While the Oscars Embrace Diversity, the Golden Globes Scramble for RelevanceThis year’s show was a joint presentation of the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East, which normally conduct separate but simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Kal Penn hosted the ceremony, with presenters that included Sacha Baron Cohen, Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Fallon, Ava DuVernay, Leslie Odom Jr.

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And then there were eight. The Best Picture nominees have been widdled down to a chosen few and from a layman’s perspective, it might appear that the race to take Oscar’s most prestigious prize is surprisingly wide open.