NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
A biopic of Sinéad O’Connor Biopic is in the works, Variety reports. The iconic Irish musician and activist, who died in 2023, was the subject of director Kathryn Ferguson’s critically acclaimed documentary “Nothing Compares” - production company ie: entertainment which exec produced on the doc are now behind the biopic project, along with Nine Daughters (“Lady Macbeth”) and See-Saw Films (“The Power of the Dog”), while Josephine Decker (“Shirley”) is on board to direct from a script by Irish writer Stacey Gregg (“Mary & George”) which is expected to explore O’Connor’s early life and beginnings in the music industry.
New York’s Film Forum has a forty-film festival of women-centric action films kicking off today. Women In Action features “gun toting, bank robbing, alien blasting, and crimefighting badassss leading ladies in films spanning genres and decades from the silent era to the twenty-tens,” with titles such as “Alien,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and “Set It Off,” and others starring iconic leading ladies such as Maggie Cheung, Gena Rowlands, Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Tamara Dobson, Faye Dunaway, Jodie Foster, and Uma Thurman included in the program. It runs through until September 4 - get tickets here.
All synopses are courtesy of press materials, unless otherwise noted.
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN AND NON-GENDERED PERSONS OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD
Night Always Comes – Written by Sarah Conradt (Now in theaters and available on Netflix)
Based on the best selling novel by Willy Vlautin, “Night Always Comes” follows Lynette (Vanessa Kirby), a woman who risks everything to secure the house that represents a future for her family. On a dangerous odyssey through a single night, Lynette is forced to confront her dark past in order to finally break free.
