This year’s Best Actress Oscar winner is heading to the stage: Jessica Chastain is returning to Broadway.  Deadline reports that she’ll star as Nora Helmer in a “radical new production” of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” adapted by playwright Amy Herzog. 

 “A Doll’s House” first premiered in 1879. The iconic play tells the story of a Norwegian housewife who becomes unhappy with her marriage with her domineering husband.

Additional details on the upcoming Broadway play, including production dates, ticketing info, and additional cast are TBA.

Chastain emphasized that her “heart hurt” after witnessing the desolate state of the theater district during the COVID-19 shutdown and this role would enable

Dana Schwartz is getting her own series. Deadline reports that a workplace comedy about two geeky women created by the screenwriter, podcaster, journalist, and author is in early development at CBS.

TItled “Talk Nerdy To Me,” the single-camera series centers on two sisters “navigating the landscape of female geekdom together from two different perspectives.”

Schwartz, who wrote on the first season of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” is among the project’s exec producers. 

Perhaps best known as the host and creator of  “Noble Blood,” a podcast exploring notable royals, Schwartz’s most recent book, New York Times bestseller “Anatomy: A Love Story,” hit shelves earlier this year. The gothic novel set in

Marusya Syroechkovskaya is a Moscow-born award-winning filmmaker and visual artist who had to flee Russia in March 2022 as the crackdown on opposition voices increased. Her student short film, “Exploration of Confinement,” received a Jury Award at the 2013 New Orleans Film Festival and qualified for the 2013 Academy Awards. Syroechkovskaya also is a 2015 Nipkow Programm Fellow.

“How to Save a Dead Friend” is screening at the 2022 DOC NYC film festival, which is running from November 9-27. 

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MS: A boy saves his girlfriend from killing herself but neither of them can save him. “How to Save a Dead

Audiences may be reuniting with Genovia’s royal family: a new “Princess Diaries” movie is in the works at Disney. Deadline confirmed the news.

Penned by “Supergirl” alumna Aadrita Mukerji, the film will mark the third installment of the franchise based on Meg Cabot’s YA book series of the same name. It is “understood to be a continuation of past story, rather than a reboot,” per the source.

So far, there’s no word about whether Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, the stars of “Princess Diaries” and “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement,” will reprise their roles in the threequel, but the odds are looking good: Hathaway recently said that she would

“We destroyed their past but you’re destroying their future,” an oil exec is told in the trailer for Rebecca and Josh Tickell’s “On Sacred Ground,” a narrative feature that revisits the controversial construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pic inspired by true events that transpired on reservation lands in 2016.

“On Sacred Ground” follows journalist and military vet Daniel (William Mapother, “Save Me”) and his employer, Elliot (David Arquette, “Scream”), a bigwig at the oil company that commissioned him to write about them in a positive light. The two find themselves on opposing factions of the DAPL dispute, going “down separate paths during one of the most heated protests

Celeste Barber’s first Netflix comedy special is on the way. Filmed during an encore performance of her “Celeste Barber – Fine, Thanks” tour, the hour-long special will be available on the streamer in 2023, per Deadline. 

The special sees Barber tackling topics including celebrity sex toys and why attractive women can’t dance. The Australian comic and actress also recalls the delight she felt when she was invited to Coachella and her subsequent devastation when the music festival was canceled that same year. 

“This has been such a massive year for me and I can’t think of a better way to wrap up my world tour than shooting a Netflix special

Dawn Porter is an award-winning writer and producer. Her work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. Porter’s 2016 film “Trapped,” which explores laws regulating abortion clinics in the South, won the Special Jury Social-Impact Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and a Peabody Award. Her other credits include “37 Words,” “The Way I See It,” “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” and “Gideon’s Army.” She is the recipient of the 2022 Critics Choice Documentary Awards Impact Award, and is an honoree at the 2022 Gracies Leadership Awards. 

“Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net” is screening at the 2022 DOC NYC film festival, which is

Kate Winslet and real-life daughter Mia Threapleton share the screen in “I Am Ruth,” an upcoming installment of Channel 4’s “I Am” anthology series. A newly released trailer for the feature-length drama introduces Ruth (Winslet) and Freya (Threapleton), a mother and daughter who appear to be in crisis.

“You can do whatever you want, sweetheart. You are not judged. You are not criticized,” Ruth tells her teenaged daughter. “But I am though, am I not?” an unconvinced Freya retorts. She later cries out, “I’m sorry that I’m not perfect!”

Freya seems to be consumed by social media, so much so that Ruth is advised to take her to see a

Director and writer Marianela Maldonado has helmed several short fiction films including “The Look of Happiness” and “Breaking Out,” both of which premiered at Cannes Film Festival. She has co-written projects such as the Oscar-winning short “Peter and the Wolf” and “The Magic Piano,” shortlisted for the 2012 Oscars. As a documentary filmmaker, Maldonado has worked for BBC Mundo and co-wrote “Once upon a Time in Venezuela,” which premiered at Sundance in 2020. She is currently developing several projects for film and television under her creative label Serious Ladies and Invento Films. 

“Children of Las Brisas” is screening at the 2022 DOC NYC film festival, which is running from November

What if there was a way for women to communicate with each other secretly? For women to freely express their innermost sorrows and desires without the understanding of men? Such a language exists – and has existed for thousands of years – in Jiangyong County of Hunan, China.

Violet Du Feng and Zhao Qing’s “Hidden Letters” follows two millennial women, Hu Xin and Wu Simu, who are protecting the centuries-old language system of Nüshu (女書), which translates to “women’s script.” Nüshu is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters invented and passed down generationally by peasant women who were denied education, had their feet bound, and were imprisoned by oppressive marriages.