“You have a conviction that at a certain age you should have it all together — but then you get older and you keep moving the goalpost,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Chantilly Bridge.” Linda Yellen’s sequel to 1993’s “Chantilly Lace” sees Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry, Patricia Richardson, Talia Shire, Ally Sheedy, Helen Slater, and JoBeth Williams sharing the screen once again.

The film sees the childhood friends reuniting after 25 years apart: a death is what brings them together. “There is a land of the living and the land of the dead, and the bridge is love – the only survival, the only meaning,” a voiceover emphasizes.

Fans of “Unpregnant” and “Obvious Child” ought to put “Cherry” on their radar. Deadline reports that Entertainment Squad has acquired North American rights to Sophie Galibert’s abortion dramedy with plans to release it theatrically this spring.

A coming-of-age story, “Cherry” centers on a young woman (Alexandria Trewhitt, “From Scratch”) “who has 24 hours to make the most important decision of her life: whether or not to keep an unplanned pregnancy,” the source details.

“Cherry” won an Audience Award at Tribeca Film Festival last year.

Entertainment Squad’s founder and CEO Shaked Berenson described the film as “extremely timely” and emphasized that “Cherry” “beautifully and authentically explores challenges that are faced by

It’s a good day for “Bad Sisters.” Irish Film and Television Academy Award (IFTAs) nominations have been announced and Sharon Horgan’s black comedy leads the pack with 12 nods including Best Drama, Lead Actress (Horgan), and TV Drama Director (Dearbhla Walsh).

Co-created by “Catastrophe” alumna Horgan, the Apple TV+ series follows five sisters who find themselves at the center of a life insurance investigation.

The IFTA Awards ceremony will take place May 7 in Dublin.

Head over to Deadline to check out all of the nominees. Antonia Campbell Hughes (“It Is In Us All”) and Rachael Moriarty (co-director of “Róise & Frank”) are up for film directing honors.

Kathryn Hahn is following in the footsteps of Reese Witherspoon in “Tiny Beautiful Things,” another project based on a Cheryl Strayed book. Witherspoon played the author in 2014’s “Wild” and Hahn will portray a character based on her in “Tiny Beautiful Things,” an upcoming Hulu series that counts Witherspoon among its exec producers. “How did I get so far from the person I wanted to be?” Clare (Hahn) asks in a new trailer for the drama.

By her own admission, Clare’s life is “a mess.” She explains, “My husband kicked me out a few days ago. My daughter hates me.” When an old pal suggests that the floundering writer take

“Women Talking” has been getting awards buzz since its world premiere at Telluride last September, and as awards season reaches its zenith, it’s looking more and more likely that the film’s writer and director, Sarah Polley, will be delivering an acceptance speech at the upcoming Oscars. The WGA Awards took place Sunday, and Polley brought home the prize for adapted screenplay for “Women Talking.”

Based on Miriam Toew’s novel of the same name, “Women Talking” is centers on women in a remote religious community who are reeling in the aftermath of a series of sexual assaults. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley lead the cast.

Polley is up for

“Bunny” is coming to the big screen. Bad Robot acquired film rights to Mona Awad’s bestselling novel in a “competitive situation.” Deadline broke the news.

Published in 2019, the novel tells the story of Samantha, a scholarship student in a competitive MFA program at New England’s Warren University. The outsider is “utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort — a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other ‘Bunny’ and seem to move and speak as one,” the source summarizes. Everything changes when Samantha “receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled ‘Smut Salon,’ and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door — ditching her

Sundance Institute has announced the participants selected for the 2023 Momentum Fellowship, a program “designed to support and provide coaching to mid-career artists with a focus on career development,” per Deadline. Launched in 2018, the fellowship was “created to support storytellers from historically marginalized communities who have recently achieved a noteworthy accomplishment, such as a regarded feature film or series,” and “provides fellows with a full-year program of deep, customized support around the goals they have identified for themselves to level up in their craft and career.” Eligible artists include those “identifying as women, non-binary and/or transgender, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color, and artists with disabilities.”

The Momentum Fellowship

Danielle Nicolet is writing and exec producing a feature adaptation of “Black Karen,” “The Flash” star’s 2022 short directed by “Harlem’s” Meagan Good. Deadline broke the news.

“Pic tells the story of Karen Johnson, a Black woman on the verge. Her work, home, and personal life are falling to pieces while she’s plagued by anxiety. After being convinced by her therapist the world is woke and the only one who hasn’t changed is her, Karen decides to improve her life by acting like a white woman would. It all goes great… until it doesn’t,” the source teases. “When the private bank Karen works in is robbed, she realizes that the

Daisy Ridley is teaming up with Raelle Tucker, an alumna of “Jessica Jones” and “True Blood,” on her next project. The “Star Wars” actress will topline and exec produce “The Better Liar,” a drama series in development at Amazon that’s written by Tucker. Deadline broke the news. 

An adaptation of Tanen Jones’ book of the same name, “The Better Liar” tells the story of a woman who “hires a lookalike in an effort to conceal her sister’s death and claim their shared inheritance,” but “her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets,” per the source.

Ridley premiered her latest film, “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” at Sundance Film Festival in

Twenty-nine of the 100 most popular films of 2022 meet ReFrame Stamp criteria for gender-balanced production. Awarded to features that “hire women or individuals of other underrepresented gender identities/expressions (including those who are non-binary or gender non-conforming) in at least 50% of key roles including writer, director, producer, lead, co-leads, and department heads (Cinematographer, Production Designer, Casting Director, Costume Designer, Editor, Composer, Music Supervisor, VFX Supervisor),” the ReFrame Stamp system awards additional points to productions that “hire women of color in key positions, and to those with overall gender parity in their crews.”

A press release announced that this year’s recipients include critically acclaimed films such as Michelle Yeoh-starrer “Everything