Women and Hollywood Newsletter

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Women and Hollywood Newsletter
Women and Hollywood's Weekly Newsletter

Women and Hollywood's Weekly Newsletter

January 3

Jan 03, 2025
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NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

  • Happy New Year! We’re wishing all our readers a joy-filled and prosperous 2025, and we’ll keep bringing you all the up-to-date information we can find about new and returning releases.

  • A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to Margaret Qualley and Thomasin McKenzie-starrer “Victorian Psycho,” a horror film based on Virginia Feito’s upcoming novel of the same name. The script - also penned by Feito - is set in Victorian England, and “sees an eccentric governess arrive at a remote gothic manor, where strange happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what she seems.” The project is set to go into production in March this year; Deadline broke the news over the holidays.

  • “Progress has stalled for women directors” - it’s not the most encouraging news to start the year off with, but Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have been doing important work for decades, and this is among their findings in the latest Inclusion in the Director’s Chair report now out, as shared by Indiewire and elsewhere. You can read the full report here.


All synopses are courtesy of press materials, unless otherwise noted.


FILMS ABOUT WOMEN AND NON-GENDERED PERSONS OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD

The Monster Beneath Us – Written and Directed by Sophie Osbourne (Now in theaters)

Yorkshire, 1898. A woman (Becca Hirani) doesn't take much notice when her young son (Jack Forsyth-Noble) mentions he has a new friend who lives in the basement of their country estate. However, as the boy spends more time in the dark, cold space under the house, her concern begins to turn to fear.

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