Rachel Weisz in ‘Dead Ringers’ (Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise/Prime Video)
As a horror fan, I was delighted that 2023 not only delivered some top-notch genre films but also that there were enough directed by women to create a 10 best list. Women created a diverse array of horror from psychological thrillers to over-the-top gore comedy to creature features. They looked beyond just final girls to create fascinating, flawed, and sometimes deeply disturbed characters.
I measure progress not by how many positive female characters we get on screen but rather by the diversity and depth of the women driving the stories we see. Kudos to the female talent in front of and behind the camera that created these bold, original works in 2023.
2023’s Top 10 Horror Projects Directed By Women
1. Dead Ringers
Key women creatives: Executive producer/star: Rachel Weisz; showrunner: Alice Birch; directors: Lauren Wolkstein, Karena Evans, Karyn Kusama; writers: Miriam Battye,...
As a horror fan, I was delighted that 2023 not only delivered some top-notch genre films but also that there were enough directed by women to create a 10 best list. Women created a diverse array of horror from psychological thrillers to over-the-top gore comedy to creature features. They looked beyond just final girls to create fascinating, flawed, and sometimes deeply disturbed characters.
I measure progress not by how many positive female characters we get on screen but rather by the diversity and depth of the women driving the stories we see. Kudos to the female talent in front of and behind the camera that created these bold, original works in 2023.
2023’s Top 10 Horror Projects Directed By Women
1. Dead Ringers
Key women creatives: Executive producer/star: Rachel Weisz; showrunner: Alice Birch; directors: Lauren Wolkstein, Karena Evans, Karyn Kusama; writers: Miriam Battye,...
- 1/20/2024
- by Beth Accomando
- Showbiz Junkies
Todd Haimes, the widely respected artistic director and CEO of Roundabout Theatre Company, has died. He was 66.
Haimes died in New York City from complications of osteosarcoma, spokesman Matt Polk confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Haimes had been living with cancer for a number of years.
During his 39-year tenure as the leader of Roundabout, Haimes led the organization from near bankruptcy and one 150-seat basement space in a Chelsea grocery store to a company operating five theaters in Manhattan, that is a major player in New York’s cultural scene and one of America’s largest and most influential not-for-profit theatre companies.
Under Haimes, Roundabout married commercial growth with stunning critical and awards success, with the company winning 38 Tony Awards, 59 Drama Desk Awards, 73 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards, 14 Audelco Awards, 14 Obie Awards and 5 Olivier Awards under his tenure.
Bernard Todd Haimes was born on May 7, 1956, in New York City.
Haimes died in New York City from complications of osteosarcoma, spokesman Matt Polk confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Haimes had been living with cancer for a number of years.
During his 39-year tenure as the leader of Roundabout, Haimes led the organization from near bankruptcy and one 150-seat basement space in a Chelsea grocery store to a company operating five theaters in Manhattan, that is a major player in New York’s cultural scene and one of America’s largest and most influential not-for-profit theatre companies.
Under Haimes, Roundabout married commercial growth with stunning critical and awards success, with the company winning 38 Tony Awards, 59 Drama Desk Awards, 73 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards, 14 Audelco Awards, 14 Obie Awards and 5 Olivier Awards under his tenure.
Bernard Todd Haimes was born on May 7, 1956, in New York City.
- 4/20/2023
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, and Rachel Weisz, dominated Canneseries on Saturday, as the audience gathered at the Lumière Auditorium in Cannes broke into spontaneous applause after the first scene of her new show “Dead Ringers.”
Premiering in main competition, the six-episode limited Prime Video series – created by Alice Birch – played with the viewers’ emotions all throughout its first two episodes, eliciting frequent laughs and delivering more expletives than Logan Roy monologues, but also causing a few walk-outs, seemingly provoked by its detailed depictions of childbirth and medical procedures.
“Dead Ringers” sees Rachel Weisz play twin sisters Beverly and Elliot.
A brand new take on the novel “Twins” by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, later adapted by David Cronenberg in 1988 and starring Jeremy Irons, “Dead Ringers” sees Weisz as ambitious New York obstetricians – and twin sisters – Beverly and Elliot.
Introduced while verbally destroying an especially clumsy suitor they viciously nickname as...
Premiering in main competition, the six-episode limited Prime Video series – created by Alice Birch – played with the viewers’ emotions all throughout its first two episodes, eliciting frequent laughs and delivering more expletives than Logan Roy monologues, but also causing a few walk-outs, seemingly provoked by its detailed depictions of childbirth and medical procedures.
“Dead Ringers” sees Rachel Weisz play twin sisters Beverly and Elliot.
A brand new take on the novel “Twins” by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, later adapted by David Cronenberg in 1988 and starring Jeremy Irons, “Dead Ringers” sees Weisz as ambitious New York obstetricians – and twin sisters – Beverly and Elliot.
Introduced while verbally destroying an especially clumsy suitor they viciously nickname as...
- 4/16/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
On Wednesday morning, March 29, Amazon debuted the official trailer for “Dead Ringers,” their new medical thriller starring Rachel Weisz as twin gynecologists who push the boundaries of medical ethics. Watch it above.
See‘Dead Ringers’ clip: Double dose of Rachel Weisz in preview of Amazon Prime series [Watch]
“Dead Ringers” is inspired by the 1988 David Cronenberg film starring Oscar winner Jeremy Irons as the identical doctors. Irons won Best Actor honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Circle, and the film was a runner-up for Best Picture at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
This new version was created by Alice Birch, a recent Emmy nominee for co-writing the Hulu limited series “Normal People” (2020). She also earned BAFTA nominations for Best British Film for “Lady Macbeth” (2016) and “The Wonder” (2022), and she won Best Drama Series from the Writers Guild in 2020 as a member of the “Succession” writing team.
See‘Dead Ringers’ clip: Double dose of Rachel Weisz in preview of Amazon Prime series [Watch]
“Dead Ringers” is inspired by the 1988 David Cronenberg film starring Oscar winner Jeremy Irons as the identical doctors. Irons won Best Actor honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Circle, and the film was a runner-up for Best Picture at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
This new version was created by Alice Birch, a recent Emmy nominee for co-writing the Hulu limited series “Normal People” (2020). She also earned BAFTA nominations for Best British Film for “Lady Macbeth” (2016) and “The Wonder” (2022), and she won Best Drama Series from the Writers Guild in 2020 as a member of the “Succession” writing team.
- 3/29/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Amazon is developing Chemistry: A Novel, the debut from author Weike Wang, as a feature.
The story, which combines humor, anxiety and science, centers on a Boston-based grad student who is having a difficult time navigating the demands of her Chinese parents, the needs of her marriage-minded boyfriend and her Ph.D. The novel received a place on NPR's Best Books of 2017 list.
Playwright Ming Peiffer, who worked on Carlton Cuse's Hulu show Locke & Key, is set to adapt.
Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster are set to produce via their Blue Harp banner, which has a first-look deal at Amazon for TV. They are repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone and Lichter Grossman.
...
The story, which combines humor, anxiety and science, centers on a Boston-based grad student who is having a difficult time navigating the demands of her Chinese parents, the needs of her marriage-minded boyfriend and her Ph.D. The novel received a place on NPR's Best Books of 2017 list.
Playwright Ming Peiffer, who worked on Carlton Cuse's Hulu show Locke & Key, is set to adapt.
Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster are set to produce via their Blue Harp banner, which has a first-look deal at Amazon for TV. They are repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone and Lichter Grossman.
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- 1/24/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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