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Exclusive: Sosie Bacon, Amanda Righetti, Janet Montgomery, Stephanie Faracy and Mike Vogel (Sex/Life) have joined the recurring cast of Prime Video’s Scarpetta.

They join the previously announced Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, who will both also executive produce; Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker, Rosy McEwen, Jake Cannavale and Ariana DeBose.

Based on Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling book series, Scarpetta follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), Chief Medical Examiner, as she returns to Virginia and resumes her former position with complex relationships, both personal and professional – including her sister Dorothy (Curtis), with plenty of grudges and secrets to uncover.

Bacon plays Abby Turnball, a prize-winning reporter; Righetti plays Past Dorothy; Montgomery plays Janet, Lucy’s wife; Faracy plays Present Maggie, Scarpetta’s inherited assistant from her predecessor; Vogel plays city attorney Bill Boltz.

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When you have a title with the blunt-force impact of Nightbitch and a premise as seemingly outrageous as a woman who responds to the isolation, alienation and self-sacrifice of motherhood by turning canine, you don’t want a movie that holds back. But Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the 2021 Rachel Yoder novel, while it starts out promisingly with sharp humor and tantalizing jabs of incipient weirdness, doesn’t take its ideas far enough to be seriously provocative. That’s too bad for Amy Adams, who runs with everything the story throws at her but gets shortchanged by the script.

It’s hardly a radical revelation at this point that not every housewife and mother is June Cleaver, no matter what regressive world J.D. Vance wants to live in. But it’s disappointing that a book greeted as a feminist fairy tale, which dared to say out loud some dark truths...

The 10th Sundance Film Festival: London runs July 6-9 and will feature an industry section with keynote sessions led by A24 Execs Harpa Manku and Tom Lazenby and new London Film Festival head Kristy Matheson.

The trio will all headline events during the festival alongside producers Tristan Goligher and Mary Burke; casting agent Heather Basten; composer Nainita Desai; Elysian CEO Danny Perkins; and Black Bear International’s Luane Gauer.

Filmmakers Alice Lowe, Zeina Durra, Gurinder Chadha, and Marianna Palka will also headline sessions. The festival has also added three panel events to the schedule, with speakers including Past Lives director Celine Song, Girl filmmaker Adura Onashile, Polite Society’s Nida Manzoor, and Molly Manning Walker, writer-director of the buzzy Cannes pic How to Have Sex. Ira Sachs, Gregg Araki, Ita O’Brien, intimacy coordinator and founder of Intimacy on Set, and Lío Mehiel, will shepherd a separate panel, while Anthony Bregman will host an industry keynote.

Guests to attend include Harris Dickinson, Emilia Jones, Anton Corbijn.

New BFI London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson, Elysian CEO Danny Perkins and producers Tristan Goligher and Mary Burke are among the recent additions to the industry programme at next month’s Sundance Film Festival: London (July 6-9).

All four will be speaking at the event, as will filmmakers Gurinder Chadha, Alice Lowe, Marianna Palka and Zeina Durra; composer Nainita Desai; and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 casting director Heather Basten.

Further new speakers include A24 executives Harpa Manku and Tom Lazenby; and Luane Gauer, SVP, international production and acquisitions at Black Bear International.

Guests to attend include Harris Dickinson, Emilia Jones, Anton Corbijn.

New BFI London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson, Elysian CEO Danny Perkins and producers Tristan Goligher and Mary Burke are among the recent additions to the industry programme at next month’s Sundance Film Festival: London (July 6-9).

All four will be speaking at the event, as will filmmakers Gurinder Chadha, Alice Lowe, Marianna Palka and Zeina Durra; composer Nainita Desai; and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 casting director Heather Basten.

Further new speakers include A24 executives Harpa Manku and Tom Lazenby; and Luane Gauer, SVP, international production and acquisitions at Black Bear International.

"We're good at what we do... because we use alternative methods of recovery." Vertical Ent has released an official trailer for an indie crime thriller titled Collection, the latest feature made by indie writer / director Marianna Palka. Recently known for her role on the Emmy winning & SAG nominated Netflix series Glow, she previously directed Egg (2018), starring Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp, which first premiered at Tribeca to rave reviews. This is her seventh film since her premiere film, Good Dick. Collection tells of a grieving father who grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while also struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. He'll find himself pitted against his best friend, his prodigy and his love. Collection stars Alex Pettyfer, Mike Vogel, Breeda Wool, Willam Belli, Shakira Barrera, Joseph Julian Soria, and Paige Howard. This looks as dull and forgettable as the title, not much to see.

Patton Oswalt is heading back to the Sundance Film Festival, though the comedian won’t need a snow coat this year.

The Big Fan star and 2017 jury member will be hosting the 2021 Sff Awards Night on February 2, the Robert Redford founded shindig announced today.

Semi-virtual like all of Sundance ’21 because of the coronavirus pandemic, that awards ceremony will feature winners from all of the six competition categories – which saw 2021 jury members unveiled last week. As well, the awards show will see participation from the likes of Park City alum Diego Luna, Alison Brie, and Shira Haas, Sff also said today.

Following in the proud line of past Sff Awards show hosting such as Marianna Palka, Tig Notaro and Jessica Williams, the news of Oswalt’s ringmaster role comes just three days before Sundance 2021 kicks off, online and otherwise. The approximately 120-film strong festival will run until February 3.

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Exclusive: Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) is set to direct and star in action-thriller Phantom Of Belgrade, which will also star Dark and The Girlfriend Experience actor Oliver Masucci.

The original screenplay by David Matillo is based on a true story. While former Yugoslav president Tito was on an official visit to Cuba in 1979, a citizen of Belgrade stole a white Porsche and for ten straight evenings drove around the city forcing the police on a wild goose chase in the early hours. Thousands of people are said to have hit the streets every night to support the gesture which became seen as a political statement against the government.

The events were previously charted in a Serbian documentary from 2009.

Producers are James Ireland and Pettyfer of Dark Dreams Entertainment and Andre L III of MiLu Entertainment. Casting is underway for the female lead and filming is scheduled for May 2021 in Serbia.

Four years ago, Zoe Lister-Jones made headlines by hiring all-female crew for her directorial debut, the musical comedy “Band Aid.” That was a much bigger deal back then than it is today, when behind-the-scenes inequality has become a perpetual hot topic in Hollywood, but “Band Aid” stands as an early example of what’s possible when the person behind the camera makes an effort.

Lister-Jones doesn’t take credit for pushing the idea of all-female crews into the zeitgeist, but the film had a measurable impact on conversations about gender equality on set. Other productions have tried similar hiring schemes, from indies like Marianna Palka’s “Egg” to Ava DuVernay’s series “Queen Sugar,” which has only hired female directors for four seasons running. The most recent iteration of the Celluloid Ceiling study found that percentages of women working in key behind-the-scenes roles on the top 100 and 250 grossing films has...

Will Glow get a proper ending? The cast of the cancelled Netflix TV show is hoping for some closure, possibly a movie to wrap up the series.

Inspired by a true story, the comedy-drama centers on a group of L.A. women who contribute to a low-rated cable wrestling series in the 1980s. The cast includes Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, and Chris Lowell.

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“Glow” will not proceed with Season 4 at Netflix as planned, Variety has confirmed.

The Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy series about a troupe of female professional wrestlers had originally been renewed for a fourth and final season, but plans for that season have now been scrapped due to production delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We’ve made the difficult decision not to do a fourth season of ‘Glow’ due to Covid, which makes shooting this physically intimate show with its large ensemble cast especially challenging,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement. “We are so grateful to creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, Jenji Kohan and all the writers, cast and crew for sharing this story about the incredible women of ‘Glow’ with us and the world.”

The show had been renewed for its last season last year. Production had begun on Season 4 earlier this year but was shut down early on due to the pandemic.

Christina Ricci, Tom Hopper, and David Dastmalchian will star together in the independent action-thriller “Can’t Stop the Dawn.”

Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the Ambi Media Group, is handling global sales and is introducing the project to buyers at the Cannes Virtual Market. Principal photography on “Can’t Stop the Dawn” will commence this fall in New Orleans.

Marianna Palka is directing “Can’t Stop the Dawn.” Tony Armer, Marty Poole (Fairway Film Alliance), Michael E. Brown, Ramfis Myrthil and Jory Weitz are producing. Executive producers are Santosh Govindaraju and Dan Reardon.

Tony Armer wrote the screenplay, based on an original concept by Dale Pople. Ricci will portray a terminally ill single mom recruited by Hoper’s mysterious agent to assassinate Dastmalchian’s ruthless leader of a human trafficking ring for the promise of a better future for her son.

Palka said, “I am so passionate about ‘Can’t Stop the Dawn.

In his latest podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with Seventh Row Executive Editor Orla Smith about 5 Themes In Feminist Horror.

Female Monsters: Carrie / Thelma Final Girl(S): The Slumber Party Massacre / Black Christmas Motherhood: The Babadook / Prevenge Housewives Revolting: Bitch / Swallow Gaslighting: Unsane / The Invisible Man

Beyond Empowerment: Feminist Horror And The Struggle For Female Agency is out now as an ebook from Seventh Row.

Mr. Mercedes star Breeda Wool is set to star opposite Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney, and Ann Dowd in Mass, an indie drama from first-time feature director Fran Kranz. Written by Kranz, the pic takes place in the aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways. 7 Eccles Street financed the pic and will produce with Kranz and Casey Wilder Mott of 5B Productions. Wool, who will be co-starring in the Marianna Palka-directed film, Collection, recently recurred on the third season Netflix’s Glow. The Innovative and Bold Management & Production repped actress also starred in the indie feature, Mother’s Little Helpers, which premiered at SXSW.

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Anjali Bhimani has been added to the cast of Universal’s All My Life, the film inspired by the life of Jenn Carter and her husband Solomon Chau. Jessica Rothe and...

Exclusive: Marianna Palka, the Glow actress and filmmaker behind 2018 Tribeca title Egg and Sundance pics Bitch and Good Dick, has set cast on her next feature Collection.

Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four), Mike Vogel (The Help), Jacques Colimon (The Society) and Shakira Barrera (Glow) are onboard for the drama, which is set in the seedy world of high-stakes debt collecting and follows a grieving father who struggles to shed the tragedies of his past. Todd Friedman wrote the screenplay.

Producers on the project are the Warner Davis Company with Pettyfer’s Dark Dreams Entertainment.

Alongside her work as an actress in the likes of Netflix series Glow with Alison Brie, Marianna Palka has steadily established herself in the indie filmmaking space since her 2008 debut Good Dick, starring Palka with Jason Ritter that premiered at Sundance.

Her credits behind the camera also include the 2017 comedy-drama Bitch, which again featured Ritter...

Network: Netflix.

Episodes: Tbd (half-hour).

Seasons: Four.

TV show dates: June 23, 2017 — present.

Series status: Ending.

Performers include: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin.

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A fictional comedy, the Glow TV show is inspired by the 1980s all-female professional wrestling league and the syndicated G.L.O.W.: Gorgeous Ladies of Wresting TV series. It centers on a group of L.A. women who contribute to a low-rated cable wrestling series.

Ruth Wilder (Brie) is a struggling actress, who is having a difficult time making ends meet. Although she takes her craft quite seriously, she accepts a gig in the...

Scottish filmmaker and actress Marianna Palka, known for her role in Netflix's Emmy-winning and SAG-nominated female wrestling series Glow, has been tapped to direct Collection. 

The Todd Friedman-penned drama is set to begin production late October in Birmingham, Ala., with Warner Davis producing. 

Collection tells the story of a grieving father who grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high-stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. In the midst of this, he finds himself pitted against his best friend, his prodigy and his love.

Palka's previous turn as director was Egg, starring Christina Hendricks and ...

Scottish filmmaker and actress Marianna Palka, known for her role in Netflix's Emmy-winning and SAG-nominated female wrestling series Glow, has been tapped to direct Collection. 

The Todd Friedman-penned drama is set to begin production late October in Birmingham, Ala., with Warner Davis producing. 

Collection tells the story of a grieving father who grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high-stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. In the midst of this, he finds himself pitted against his best friend, his prodigy and his love.

Palka's previous turn as director was Egg, starring Christina Hendricks and ...

Bittersweet news for Glow fans. Netflix just announced the TV show has been renewed for a fourth and final season.

The dramedy follows Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), a struggling out-of-work actress as she auditions for, trains and eventually makes the first-ever women’s wrestling TV show. The cast also includes Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin.

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The final bell is ringing for “Glow.” The Netflix series has been renewed for Season 4, which will also be the show’s last.

Series creators, executive producers, and showrunners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch will return in those roles for the final season, along with executive producers Jenji Kohan, Tara Herrmann, and Mark Burley. The series stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Marc Maron, Sydelle Noel, Kate Nash, Britney Young, Gayle Rankin, Kia Stevens, Sunita Mani, Jackie Tohn, Kimmy Gatewood, Britt Baron, Rebekka Johnson, Ellen Wong, Chris Lowell, Marianna Palka, Shakira Barrera, and Bashir Salahuddin.

“Glow” is inspired by the short-lived 1980s wrestling TV show of the same name, which stood for “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.” It follows the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into world of women’s wrestling. In addition to working with 12 Hollywood misfits,...

Glow just debuted its third season on August 9th, but will there be a fourth? Recently, co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the future of the Netflix TV show.

The dramedy follows Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), a struggling out-of-work actress as she auditions for, trains and eventually makes the first-ever women’s wrestling TV show. The cast also includes Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin.

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Through the first pair of seasons on the Netflix show “Glow,” most of the characters have been in search of something. Even as Season 3 transplants the series’ central group of wrestlers to the bright lights of Las Vegas, it sure seems like that’s one thing that won’t be changing any time soon.

The show’s three main characters are all still holding on to a tenuous grasp on cooperation. Ruth (Alison Brie) and Debbie (Betty Gilpin) are navigating their complicated relationship inside and outside the ring.

Sam (Marc Maron) made the trip out to Vegas with the rest of the Glow team, but it seems like he and Ruth haven’t quite gotten over last season’s brush with something a little more than friendship. Ruth’s boyfriend Russell (Victor Quinaz) is also in tow, giving her plenty to juggle when she’s not headlining nightly Vegas shows...

Glow is back in action! Netflix just released the premiere date, new photos, and a teaser for the TV show's third season.

The dramedy follows Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), a struggling out-of-work actress as she auditions for, trains and eventually makes the first-ever women’s wrestling TV show. The cast also includes Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin.

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In this corner: An August 9 premiere date for Season 3 of Glow, Netflix’s female-wrestling comedy inspired by the 1980s show. Check out the first-look photos from the new season above and below.

Glow tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women’s wrestling. In addition to working with 12 Hollywood misfits, Ruth also has to compete with Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin ), a former soap actress who left the business to have a baby, only to be sucked back into work when her picture-perfect life is not what it seems. And at the wheel is Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), a washed-up, B-movie director who now must lead this group of women on the journey to wrestling stardom.

Season 3 follows the ladies of Glow as...

Exclusive: Rising actresses Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Lana Condor (X-Men: Apocalypse) are attached to star in female buddy comedy Girls Night, written by Cristina Kinon (Bravo’s Adulting) and to be directed by multi-hyphenate Marianna Palka (G.L.O.W).

Pic follows unlikely best friends, college seniors, Alex (Condor) and Tina (Hildebrand), and their adventures over the course of Halloween Night in New York City as they try and track down a lost one-night stand – and figure out what they’re going to do with the rest of their lives.

Producing are Shaun Redick (BlacKkKlansman) and Yvette Yates (Malicious) of Impossible Dream Entertainment. Executive producers are Mickey Gooch of Delray Village Ent, Stephen Kelliher and Sophie Green of Bankside Films and Priya Amritraj, and Addison Mehr. Ashok Amritraj will also produce. Bankside handles international sales and will co-rep U.S. with Impossible Dream.

Production is slated for late summer in...

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival ended on Saturday night in a ceremony hosted writer, director and actress Marianna Palka. “Brittany Runs A Marathon,” acquired by Amazon Studios, took the Audience Award. “Clemency,” which is still looking for a distributor, took the Grand Jury Prize.

In the Documentary categories, “One Child Nation” directed by Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, took the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award. “Knock Down The House” directed by Rachel Lears won the U.S.

Continue reading ‘Clemency’ & ‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’ Top 2019 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners at The Playlist.

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival drew to a close this evening with the annual awards ceremony, which was hosted by filmmaker and actress Marianna Palka at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah.

Of the four Grand Jury Prizes given to competition films — the festival’s highest honors — each was directed or co-directed by a female filmmaker, reflecting last year’s Directing winners, who were all women. This year’s Grand Jury Prize winners include Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency” (U.S. Dramatic), Nanfu Wang’s “One Child Nation” (U.S. Documentary), Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir” (World Dramatic), and Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s “Honeyland” (World Documentary).

Both of the U.S. winners are still without U.S. distribution, so here’s hoping a big win at tonight’s show might loosen up some purse strings for these essential — and now award-winning — features.

At this year’s festival, women...

The Sundance Film Festival concluded with five female directors — and one man — sharing the grand jury prizes in the four main competition categories.

In U.S. dramatic competition, African-American writer-director Chinonye Chukwu won for “Clemency,” in which Alfre Woodard plays a prison warden who connects with a death-row inmate. Meanwhile, in the world dramatic category, Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir” specifically looks at the challenges and setbacks facing a young female filmmaker, who puts her directing ambitions on hold in order to deal with the drug-addicted man who monopolizes her attention.

Top U.S. documentary honors went to Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation,” a personal exploration of the suffering and aftermath of China’s infamous population-control policy through co-director Wang’s family. In the world documentary competition, “Honeyland” — an artful portrait of a Macedonian beekeeper struggling to protect her livelihood — was a clear favorite with the jury,...

“When everybody was saying ‘No’ this story does not have an audience, you, Sundance and the people who have seen this film have proven that there is an audience for this film, and I thank you!” beamed Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu after accepting the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for her death penalty drama Clemency about a female prison warden who has a crisis of consciousness.

Starring Alfre Woodard in the lead role, and Aldis Hodge as the prisoner she ponders mercy for, Chukwu said “I wrote this because I wanted audiences, ,I wanted us, I wanted myself to connect with the ecosystem of humanity’s connected to incarceration, so we as a society can stop defining people by their worst possible acts, that we can end mass incarceration, and dismantle the mass prison industrial complex, and root our societies in true justice and mercy and freedom, which is...

From Dear White People and Sorry to Bother You star Tessa Thompson, Oscar winning director Damien Chazelle, Palme d’Or winner and Top of the Lake director Jane Campion, there are a lot of Sundance alums named today as jurors for the 112-film festival kicking off next week.

As well as who will decided the victors in the seven juried categories, another Sff veteran and Glow actor Marianna Palka was revealed as the host of the February 2 awards ceremony in sure to be chilly Park City the day before the Super Bowl.

As they have in the past, Sundance attendees will help decide the Audience Awards winners in the World competition, U.S. competition and Next categories.

Having braved the inevitable show and cold for their love of cinema, TV and what could be the next big thing at the Robert Redford-founded fest, ticket holders will once again be...

When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off next week, the annual event will flood Park City, Utah with plenty of high-powered talent, and it seems that this year’s jury members might offer up as much notoriety and star power as the people on the big screen. The Sundance Institute has announced the “20 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture, and science” who will make up this year’s juries, designed to award feature-length and short films shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with 12 prizes. Those names include filmmakers Jane Campion, Damien Chazelle, Yance Ford, Rachel Grady, Ciro Guerra; screenwriters Phyllis Nagy and Sev Ohanian; actors Tessa Thompson, Sheila Vand, and Corey Stoll; and many more.

All this year’s winners, save for the short film awardees (which are announced at a separate ceremony on January 29), will be announced at a ceremony on February 2 that will be lives​treamed at ​sundance.

It’s a fascinating thing to watch a director’s work evolve over a 10-year period, particularly if the director is a woman moving from her 20s to her 30s, the pressing concerns changing with every year. Marianna Palka debuted in 2008 with her film “Good Dick,” exploring the relationship between a dysfunctional young video-store clerk and a man who rents his porn from her. It’s a darkly comic film obsessed with the desperation of youth and the desire for connection, themes that found its way into her next two films, “I’m the Same” and “Always Worthy.”

But something has shifted in Palka’s work in the past few years, a change marked with 2017’s “Bitch,” about a stay-at-home mom who snaps and begins acting like a rabid dog. This is a film searching to examine the deficiencies of traditional gender dynamics in marriage and family, poking holes in...

Glow has some new company. Deadline reports Breeda Wool has joined season three of the Netflix TV show.

The dramedy follows Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), a struggling out-of-work actress as she auditions for, trains and eventually makes the first-ever women’s wrestling TV show. The cast also includes Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin.

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Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Egg, the satire on motherhood helmed by Marianna Palka the premiered this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner and Anna Camp star in the comedy, which will now hit theaters January 18 day-and-date with a digital release.

Penned by Risa Mickenberg, the plot centers on fearless conceptual artist Tina (Reiner) and her passive-aggressive feminist husband (Gbenga Akinnagbe), who invite her 8-months-pregnant art school rival (Hendricks) and her power hungry, new money husband (David Alan Basche) to their Bushwick loft. They surprise them with Tina’s new work-in-progress: a radical alternative to motherhood. But when their sensuous, non-traditional surrogate (Camp) arrives, the truth outs, and they all must face their own ridiculous and sometimes heartbreaking shortcomings.

Former Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless, Reiner and Basche are producers.

“We are excited to continue our relationship with director Marianna Palka in...

The 15th Annual Gold Derby TV Award winners were announced on Thursday, September 6, during a live webcast announcement (watch it above). These prizes were decided by hundreds of Gold Derby users who arguably know more about the television landscape than a lot of TV academy members. And they spread the wealth when picking this year’s recipients. “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” was the biggest winner with four awards, followed by “The Handmaid’s Tale” with three, but the top series prizes actually went to “Game of Thrones” and “Atlanta.”

“Versace” swept the longform categories, claiming Best Limited Series, Best Movie/Mini Actor (Darren Criss), Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actress (Judith Light) and Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actor (Cody Fern). The last two prizes in that field went to “USS Callister (Black Mirror)” (Best TV Movie) and “The Tale” (Best Movie/Mini Actress for Laura Dern).

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Mark your calendars: the winners of the 15th Annual Gold Derby TV Awards will be announced on Thursday, September 6, at 9:00am Pacific/12:00pm Eastern. There’s still time to vote for your favorite TV shows, episodes and performances, or to edit your ballot if you’ve changed your mind in some categories. But act fast: voting closes on Friday night at 11:00pm Pacific/2:00am Eastern. As I’m writing this, the closest races are coming down to just a handful of votes, so every vote counts.

Of course, I’m not going to tell you which races are close and who between. You’ll have to wait until next Thursday to find that out.

To refresh your memory about this year’s contenders, “This is Us” is the most nominated program of the year with nine bids including Best Drama Series. “The Assassination of Gianni Versace...

the second season of the Glow TV show on Netflix? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether TV shows are cancelled or renewed. Netflix and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the Glow season two episodes. We invite you to rate them for us, below.

A Netflix 1980s comedy, Glow stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin. The scripted series is inspired by the 1980s all-female professional wrestling league and the syndicated G.L.O.W.: Gorgeous Ladies of Wresting TV show. It follows a group of L.A. women at the center of a low-rated cable wrestling series.

Netflix is returning to the ring. According to Broadcasting & Cable, the streaming service has renewed the TV show for a third season.

The dramedy follows Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), a struggling out-of-work actress as she auditions for, trains and eventually makes the first-ever women’s wrestling TV show. The cast also includes Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin.

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On many levels, dressing the characters in “Glow” was a dream job for costume designer Beth Morgan. Not only was the creation of the costumes fun and inventive, she says, but each of the characters on the Netflix series is so well developed that it gave her countless opportunities to individualize them.

“It’s such a great story about women,” says Morgan, who has created looks for TV shows such as “Last Man on Earth” and “Key & Peele.” On both seasons of “Glow” she’s designed costumes for all the show’s characters entirely from scratch, talking at length about each character’s style and outfits with show creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.

Netflix dropped the second season into streaming June 29. From the start, as the show built and the female grapplers began to form their ragamuffin group, Morgan made sure she was peppering each episode with unique pieces...

Vulture Watch Is Netflix still feeling that new show glow? Has the Glow TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on Netflix? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Glow, season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   What's This TV Show About? A Netflix scripted comedy, Glow stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Jackie Tohn, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Britt Baron, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Rich Sommer, and Bashir Salahuddin. The fictional series is inspired by the 1980s all-female professional wrestling league and the syndicated G.L.O.W.: Gorgeous Ladies of Wresting TV show. It follows a group of L.A. women at the...

One of the surprise Netflix hits of last summer took hold of audiences at the end of June and didn’t let up the entire season. A year later, the show is looking to do the same thing again.

Following one of the big questions for Ruth (Alison Brie) and Debbie (Betty Gilpin) at the end of Season 1, it looks like things are still dicey in their friendship. But whatever uncertainty there is in the personal relationships, the in-the-ring action looks just as good as it’s been. And on the outskirts, it looks like Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) is up to his usual irascible ways as the man in charge.

In addition to Brie, Maron, and Gilpin, “Glow” has one of the best ensembles on TV. Season 2 will see the return of Britney Young as Carmen (who wrestles as “Machu Picchu”), Sydelle Noel, Kate Nash, Marianna Palka, Jackie Tohn,...

Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin were so invested in selling their ability to get physical during their second “Glow” audition together that series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch were afraid the actresses would injure themselves right out of a job.

“You were lifting her onto your back, and we were like, ‘No, no, no, no, no!’” Flahive said to Brie during a “Glow” Fyc event earlier this year.

“Glow” is the fictionalized retelling of the rise and popularity of the 1980s syndicated women’s professional wrestling promotion known as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, aka Glow. At the screening and panel in North Hollywood, the cast and crew of the Netflix series gathered to give insight into the show’s casting process. For the amount of kicks, flips, and other attacks required in wrestling, stunt doubles just weren’t going to cut it for the majority of the action seen on screen.

With this sharp satire, director Marianna Palka continues poking and prodding at the various phases of women’s lives. In her 2008 directorial debut “Good Dick,” she took aim at dating with its anti-romantic comedy approach. Her 2017 pitch-black offering “Bitch” explored the life of a stay-at-home mother and wife who is so fed up with her treatment by her cheating husband and misbehaving kids that she begins acting like a vicious dog.

Setting up a cultural clash between two 40-something college pals, their partners, and a surrogate, Marianna Palka’s black comedy Egg, like her previous horror/comedy Bitch, sets its aim squarely on the patriarchy and the norms of motherhood. Written by Risa Mickenberg and mostly set entirely within the walls of a Brooklyn loft, Egg uses the traditional form of the sitcom to explore the life choices of free spirit artist Tina (Alysia Reiner) and Karen (Christina Hendricks), the wife of a business woman who isn’t as prepared to engage with “motherhood” as a political statement as her friend. Karen’s partner is a sports-obsessed alpha male, Don (David Alan Basche), a real estate developer who’s uncomfortable in this un-gentrified corner of Brooklyn. Tina’s husband Wayne (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is a freelancer comfortable rocking a “patriarchy is a bitch” t-shirt while biking around with Tina.

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Casually cruel, two old art-school friends face off in Egg, a small-scale satirical drama about motherhood, female friendship and marriage. Tina (Alysia Reiner), who is having a child via a surrogate, tells the pregnant Karen (Christina Hendricks) that she couldn’t stand having someone hanging off her breast all day. Karen retaliates that being pregnant makes her feel like a celebrity, and that she’s sorry for people who don’t have children. With a great deal of daring and more modest accomplishment, director Marianna Palka (the 2017 Sundance film Bitch) and first-time screenwriter Risa Mickenberg confront and undermine the cliches of the...

Filmmaker Marianna Palka has spent the past decade of her career dipping into various genres and finding the space to tell intimate stories in each, from her debut dramatic romance “Good Dick” to last year’s biting midnight offering “Bitch,” and her latest film only continues that trend. “Egg” shows the Scottish actor-director’s continuing ability to ground her films with strong character work and a buoyant sense of humor.

Written by first-time screenwriter Risa Mickenberg, the movie follows a pair of mismatched pals whose conflicting ideas about motherhood screw up an ordinary dinner party in unexpected ways. Starring Christina Hendricks and Alysia Reiner (who also produced the film) as old friends from art school whose paths diverged, the actresses maintain the uneasy chemistry of two people who used to know each other very well, and aren’t quite sure how to rekindle their bond. Tina (Reiner) has stayed in the art world,...

Receiving Risa Mickenberg’s script for Egg—premiering this week in Tribeca—director Marianna Palka had an instant, strong reaction to the material, recognizing something that had the potential to be really special.

“David [Alan Basche] and Alysia [Reiner] sent me the script, and I was, I think, 19 pages into the script when I said I wanted to do it, because I realized it was going to change the world. Because it’s so beautiful,” Palka told Deadline this morning in Tribeca, appearing with stars Reiner, Basche, Christina Hendricks and Gbenga Akinnagbe. “It’s about two women and their friends, and it’s such a wonderful time to explore the themes that the movie brings up. I think it was my favorite project I’ve done so far.”

An intimate chamber piece shot with a small cast inside a bohemian loft, Egg centers on the reunion of two artistic couples who get into...

Glow was greenlit for a second season in the summer of 2017. Since then, not much has been said of the grudge match season. That’s until now. Netflix has released a very cool video of the “Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling” living it up in the 80’s which announces the season two premiere date with their best “Flashdance” impressions. Watch the announcement video below.

Glow follows the real-life women’s wrestling company of the same name that was started in the mid 80s. The original series aired for four seasons. The Netflix series was created by the same team that brought you another Netflix hit, Orange is the New Black.

The new season will consist of ten episodes and will stream June 29. The series stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Marc Maron, Sydelle Noel, Britney Young, Britt Baron, Kimmy Gatewood, Kate Nash, Rebekka Johnson, Sunita Mani, Marianna Palka, Gayle Rankin, Kia Stevens,...

After her philandering husband and unruly kids break her psyche, Jill upends the family dynamic by assuming the persona of a vicious dog. Marianna Palka saw her indie thriller Bitch, which she directs and stars in, world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s now available on Netflix here in the U.S. Our own Fred Topel despised the film, calling it […]...

Zoe will be the centrepiece gala Photo: John Guleserian The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its feature film line-up, which includes 96 films. The festival, which earlier announced it will open with documentary Love, Gilda, on April 18 will close on April 29 with The Fourth Estate - the first episode of Liz Garbus' documentary following The New York Times' coverage of President Trump's first year in power.

The Centerpiece Gala will be one of the 74 world premieres featuring across the programme - Drake Doremus’ sci-fi romance Zoe, which stars Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Rashida Jones, and Theo James. British filmmakers in the competition line-up including Karen Gillan - whose The Party's Just Beginning recently had its world premiere in Glasgow - and Jamie Jones' Obey, which is set during the 2011 London riots. The spotlight also features motherhood satire Egg, by British director Marianna Palka and drama Jellyfish, directed by fellow Brit James Gardner.