Miriam Toews: Last News

Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley shared a super tight hug at the premiere of their new movie, Women Talking, in London on Wednesday (October 12).

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay is ramping up efforts to find new properties for its array of scripted labels, appointing experienced industry exec Hannah Griffiths as its first ever Head of Adaptations.

Amber Dowling Last April, Sphere Media took the Canadian Screen Awards by storm with 22 awards for its scripted content, including a record 12 wins for the historical Black drama “The Porter” and seven for queer comedy “Sort Of.” It was a big night for Canada’s third-largest independent producer, and in particular for Jennifer Kawaja, Sphere’s president of scripted and feature films for English Canada. Previously, Kawaja spent decades heading up Sienna Films with her business partner, Julia Sereny, helming several award-winning projects like “Cardinal,” “Trickster” and “One Dead Indian.” The duo sold the company to Kew Media Group in 2017 and in 2020, Montreal-based Datsit Sphere snatched it up when Kew was placed into receivership. Last year, Sphere restructured and rebranded under a single banner with the intention of streamlining content creation, production and distribution.

A red carpet faux pas. Kate Hudson had to correct a reporter who told her she’d previously won an Oscar during a pre-ceremony interview on Sunday, March 12.

Sarah Polley has won her first Academy Award.

Sarah Polley chalked up another win for her film Women Talking.The artist, 43, took away the award for Director of the Year at the 34th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards on Thursday. The Canadian beauty was stylish in a mustard toned two-piece suit with a double breasted jacket. Win: Sarah Polley chalked up another win for her film Women Talking walking away with the Director of the Year award at the 34th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards ThursdayThe talented actress, writer and director wore a simple button down brown shirt beneath, brown boots and a white flower boutonnière.

Editor’s note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Claire Foy is nothing but versatile. In 2018, after winning an Emmy as Elizabeth II in The Crown, the 38-year-old Brit appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s show and threw down the intro to The Sugarhill Gang’s hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’. The same year, she was astronaut Neil Armstrong’s wife in First Man, but in Oscar hopeful Women Talking she plays Salome, for whom the moon landing is pie in the sky. Directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Frances McDormand, it takes place in a strict religious community where women and girls have been abused by their menfolk. A meeting is called: do they stay, or do they go?

Sarah Polley, whose latest feature Women Talking hits theaters in December, has been named Director of the Year by the Palm Springs Film Festival. The honor will be bestowed January 5 at PSIFF’s annual awards gala to kick off the festival’s 2023 edition.

Rooney Mara and Claire Foy were all smiles in contrasting black and white looks while hitting the red carpet of their new film Women Talking.Mara, 37, and Foy, 38, play Ona and Salome in the new film, based on Miriam Toews' 2018 novel loosely based on a horrifying true story.The actresses also posed with others such as Ben Whishaw, Kira Guloien, producer Dede Gardner, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett, Sheila McCarthy, writer-director Sarah Polley, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Judith Ivey, and Shayla Brown at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California on Thursday. Rooney and Claire: Rooney Mara and Claire Foy were all smiles in contrasting black and white looks while hitting the red carpet of their new film Women Talking Cast and crew: The actresses also posed with others such as Ben Whishaw, Kira Guloien, producer Dede Gardner, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett, Sheila McCarthy, writer-director Sarah Polley, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Judith Ivey, and Shayla Brown at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California on ThursdayMara hit the red carpet in a slightly-sheer black turtleneck that showed off a black bra underneath.She had her black locks parted to the side, holding a black sash and a white bag on the red carpet.

EXCLUSIVE: The 3x Gotham Award nominated drama from Sarah Polley is moving its exclusive opening date from Dec. 2 to Dec. 23, that weekend when moviegoing ratchets up after moviegoers get through their holiday distractions. United Artists Releasing’s Women Talking follows women in an isolated religious community who are grappling with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

Rooney Mara and Claire Foy joined forces on the red carpet during the 2022 New York Film Festival!

The first trailer for the star-studded upcoming drama, Women Talking, premiered on Monday. The Sarah Polley directed film - based on the 2018 Miriam Toews novel of the same name - follows the true story of men drugging and raping women in a Mennonite colony. In one chilling scene, the Crown's Claire Foy, 38, who plays Salome, is seen saying to a group of women: 'We know that we have not imagined these attacks. We know that we are bruised and terrified,' before she is dragged away screaming by two men.

The debut trailer for Sarah Polley‘s film Women Talking has just debuted online.

Over a career that has taken her from child actor to the director’s chair, Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley has spent enough time on set to have a feel for the standard rhythms of a shoot.

Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara hug it out with director Sarah Polley at the premiere of Women Talking during the 2022 Toronto Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on Tuesday (September 13) in Toronto, Ontario.

Rooney Mara and Claire Foy join their co-stars for a special event at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival over the weekend in Telluride, Co.

The women in question here belong to a secluded rural religious order on unidentified prairieland and the talking they do throughout Sarah Polley’s immaculately made, intellectually adventurous and politically incisive new film consists of an ongoing debate that will determine the futures of these mostly young women.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic With a title like “Women Talking,” audacious actor-turned-helmer Sarah Polley’s fourth feature makes clear that it will be one of those rare films capable of passing the Bechdel test. That barometer, for those who may not know, poses three seemingly easy-to-meet criteria: (1) The movie has to have at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something other than a man. It’s astonishing how many movies fail. Even Polley’s film, which consists of women talking for most of its 97 minutes, is a complicated exception, since most of the conversation — an urgent meeting among the wives, mothers and daughters of an ultraconservative religious colony — concerns the men. But even then, there’s no denying that “Women Talking” is unlike any film you’ve seen before, which is exactly what you’d want from the director of 2012’s astonishingly personal, format-shattering meta-documentary “Stories We Tell.” A decade later, Polley is back with another bold thought experiment, this one inspired by a horrific conspiracy of sexual abuse discovered within a Mennonite community about a decade ago.

It’s NYFF day. OK, yes, earlier today, we were honored to premiere the trailer for the 60th New York Film Festival.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“She Said,” a drama about the sexual harassment investigation that took down Harvey Weinstein and sparked the #MeToo movement, will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.The Universal Pictures movie is screening as part of the festival’s spotlight section. Other movies that will be highlighted include Chinonye Chukwu’s historical drama “Till,” Elvis Mitchell’s documentary “Is That Black Enough for You?!?,” James Ivory and Giles Gardner’s non-fiction film “A Cooler Climate,” and Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s New York Dolls documentary “Personality Crisis: One Night Only.”Additional spotlight entries include “Bones and All,” directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet; Marco Bellocchio’s “Exterior Night,” a six-part series about the kidnapping and eventual murder of the Italy’s influential statesman and former prime minister Aldo Moro; director Lars von Trier’s “The Kingdom Exodus,” a third season of his television series The Kingdom; Chris Smith’s “Sr.”, a look at the life and career of Robert Downey Jr.’s late father, Robert Downey, Sr.; “The Super 8 Years,” a story about writer-director Annie Ernaux’s family’s memory; and Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” a screen adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel about women from a remote religious community dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault.