Waitress composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl are teaming up on a stage musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling 2013 novel The Interestings.
Bareilles is composing the music and lyrics, while Ruhl writes the book. Matt Ross is producing.
Wolitzer’s novel, as the official synopsis states, tells the story of six teenagers who meet at summer camp in the 1970s and form a lifelong bond over their shared dream of leading creative and inspiring lives. Decades later in New York City, that bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The Interestings traces their lives as they grow together and apart to explore friendship, love, envy, class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
“I wrote the first song for The Interestings before I even finished the book,...
Bareilles is composing the music and lyrics, while Ruhl writes the book. Matt Ross is producing.
Wolitzer’s novel, as the official synopsis states, tells the story of six teenagers who meet at summer camp in the 1970s and form a lifelong bond over their shared dream of leading creative and inspiring lives. Decades later in New York City, that bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The Interestings traces their lives as they grow together and apart to explore friendship, love, envy, class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
“I wrote the first song for The Interestings before I even finished the book,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Get ready to watch more Freevee this February! Most of the free streamer's new additions will come all at once on the first of the month, including the three-time Oscar nominee "A Soldier’s Story" directed by the recently departed Norman Jewison, the franchise-launching "How to Train Your Dragon," and more classics of the past four decades.
Check out The Streamable’s top picks for Freevee’s February additions, and continue below to see the full list!
Watch Now Free amazonfreevee.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to Freevee in February 2024? “A Soldier’s Story” | Thursday, Feb. 1
Early-career Denzel Washington appears in a supporting role in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Soldier’s Play.” But it’s Howard E. Rollings Jr. who leads the cast here as Captain Richard Davenport, a Black Army investigator who travels to a remote military base to look into...
Check out The Streamable’s top picks for Freevee’s February additions, and continue below to see the full list!
Watch Now Free amazonfreevee.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to Freevee in February 2024? “A Soldier’s Story” | Thursday, Feb. 1
Early-career Denzel Washington appears in a supporting role in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Soldier’s Play.” But it’s Howard E. Rollings Jr. who leads the cast here as Captain Richard Davenport, a Black Army investigator who travels to a remote military base to look into...
- 1/31/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Scott Eastwood (Pacific Rim: Uprising), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), and Clark Backo (Letterkenny) will lead the ensemble romantic comedy I Want You Back from Amazon Studios. Big Time Adolescence helmer Jason Orley is attached to direct the film from a screenplay by Love, Simon co-writers and This Is Us co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.
Jami Gertz, Jordan Carlos, Midori Francis, Mason Gooding, Isabel May, and Luke David Blumm round out the cast as production is slated to commence next month in Atlanta. The film follows Emma (Slate) and Peter (Day) who thought they were on the precipice of life’s biggest moments – marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs – until their respective partners dumped them. In their thirties and terrified that they have missed their shot at happily ever after, Emma...
Jami Gertz, Jordan Carlos, Midori Francis, Mason Gooding, Isabel May, and Luke David Blumm round out the cast as production is slated to commence next month in Atlanta. The film follows Emma (Slate) and Peter (Day) who thought they were on the precipice of life’s biggest moments – marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs – until their respective partners dumped them. In their thirties and terrified that they have missed their shot at happily ever after, Emma...
- 2/22/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Kristin Scott Thomas (“Fleabag”), Daisy Ridley (the “Star Wars” franchise) and Nina Hoss (“My Little Sister”) will star in writer-director Jane Anderson’s “Women in the Castle.”
Adapted by Anderson from Jessica Shattuck’s 2017 New York Times bestseller, the film, set in the ruins of WW2 Germany, follows three women, bound by their past and clinging to each other for a future, who must grapple with the realities of liberation from the Nazis, and face the consequences of decisions they cannot undo.
The film is produced by Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin (“The Wife”), Doreen Wilcox Little (“Mapplethorpe”) and Michael Scheel (“Berlin Station”).
Jane Anderson previously adapted Meg Wolitzer’s “The Wife,” featuring an Academy Award and BAFTA nominated performance from Glenn Close. Anderson won two Emmys for her HBO miniseries “Olive Kitteridge,” starring Frances McDormand, and was also DGA nominated as writer-director of HBO’s “Normal,” starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson,...
Adapted by Anderson from Jessica Shattuck’s 2017 New York Times bestseller, the film, set in the ruins of WW2 Germany, follows three women, bound by their past and clinging to each other for a future, who must grapple with the realities of liberation from the Nazis, and face the consequences of decisions they cannot undo.
The film is produced by Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin (“The Wife”), Doreen Wilcox Little (“Mapplethorpe”) and Michael Scheel (“Berlin Station”).
Jane Anderson previously adapted Meg Wolitzer’s “The Wife,” featuring an Academy Award and BAFTA nominated performance from Glenn Close. Anderson won two Emmys for her HBO miniseries “Olive Kitteridge,” starring Frances McDormand, and was also DGA nominated as writer-director of HBO’s “Normal,” starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson,...
- 9/3/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The exciting trio of Daisy Ridley (Star Wars), Kristin Scott Thomas (Darkest Hour) and Nina Hoss (Phoenix) have been set to star in Jane Anderson’s (The Wife) adaptation of Jessica Shattuck’s 2017 New York Times bestseller Women In The Castle, about three widows of conspirators involved in an assassination attempt on Hitler.
The story of the three German women, set during and after World War II, explores how each deals with the fallout of her personal life and the devastation around her differently. Shattuck’s main characters are fictional but the story draws on familial – she is half-German – and historical accounts from the period.
Anderson, who will adapt and direct, previously adapted Meg Wolitzer’s 2017 drama The Wife, the box office breakout which scored Oscar and BAFTA nominations and a Golden Globe win for Glenn Close. The U.S. screenwriter also won two Emmys for her HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge,...
The story of the three German women, set during and after World War II, explores how each deals with the fallout of her personal life and the devastation around her differently. Shattuck’s main characters are fictional but the story draws on familial – she is half-German – and historical accounts from the period.
Anderson, who will adapt and direct, previously adapted Meg Wolitzer’s 2017 drama The Wife, the box office breakout which scored Oscar and BAFTA nominations and a Golden Globe win for Glenn Close. The U.S. screenwriter also won two Emmys for her HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge,...
- 9/3/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s official: Darren Star’s hit comedy series Younger is staying put at TV Land. The Viacom network has set a June 12 premiere date for its flagship original series’ upcoming sixth season. The announcement was made by the show’s cast (watch the video above).
It had been previously announced.that Younger would be moving to sibling Paramount Network starting with Season 6. Given the series’ long history and ratings success on TV Land, that decision was eventually reversed.
Younger established TV Land as destination for single-camera comedy series and has consistently grown its ratings season after season, including closing out the most recent fifth season as its highest-rated ever among adults 18-49. Younger also has been the #1 series on ad-supported cable for two consecutive years among Women 18-49 and Women 25-54.
Younger, which is the only remaining original scripted series on TV Land, stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar,...
It had been previously announced.that Younger would be moving to sibling Paramount Network starting with Season 6. Given the series’ long history and ratings success on TV Land, that decision was eventually reversed.
Younger established TV Land as destination for single-camera comedy series and has consistently grown its ratings season after season, including closing out the most recent fifth season as its highest-rated ever among adults 18-49. Younger also has been the #1 series on ad-supported cable for two consecutive years among Women 18-49 and Women 25-54.
Younger, which is the only remaining original scripted series on TV Land, stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar,...
- 4/9/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The Wife movie review is here. Starring the acclaimed Glenn Close who has bagged her seventh Oscar nomination as the best actress and won the Golden Globe 2019 for the same. Is the Bjorn Runge directed drama worth in giving Glenn Close an Oscar? Find out in The Wife movie review.
The most unique feature of The Wife
The Wife directed by Bjorn Runge starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in lead is not just a reminder of the adage that ?behind every successful man there is a woman?, it?s another opportunity to get up, close and personal with the incredible acting talents of the amazing Glenn Close.
What is the story of The Wife?
Based on the novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer, The Wife is the story of Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) ? a couple who are together as husband and wife since forty years.
The most unique feature of The Wife
The Wife directed by Bjorn Runge starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in lead is not just a reminder of the adage that ?behind every successful man there is a woman?, it?s another opportunity to get up, close and personal with the incredible acting talents of the amazing Glenn Close.
What is the story of The Wife?
Based on the novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer, The Wife is the story of Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) ? a couple who are together as husband and wife since forty years.
- 2/13/2019
- GlamSham
2018 was a landmark year for Stockholm-based producer Piodor Gustafsson, head of Black Spark Film & TV whose Oscar-nominated films “Border,” “The Wife” and TV dramas “Moscow Noir “and “Sthlm Requiem” landed on screens worldwide. The producer also stepped up to his role as talent spotter/nurturer by adding the job of film and TV agent at Scandinavia’s leading Salomonsson Agency.
Over the last 25 years, through his various roles as indie producer, film consultant for the Swedish Film Institute and commissioning editor for pubcaster Svt, Gustafsson has refined his editorial flair. “As decision-maker, you get to see a lot of projects that get made and you do get a feel of what works or not,” he says.
Although widely diverse in genres, most of his productions are literary adaptations, often combining the daring with the mainstream. “Piodor harnesses unique universes and stories with a great narrative power and relatable characters,...
Over the last 25 years, through his various roles as indie producer, film consultant for the Swedish Film Institute and commissioning editor for pubcaster Svt, Gustafsson has refined his editorial flair. “As decision-maker, you get to see a lot of projects that get made and you do get a feel of what works or not,” he says.
Although widely diverse in genres, most of his productions are literary adaptations, often combining the daring with the mainstream. “Piodor harnesses unique universes and stories with a great narrative power and relatable characters,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
There are two ways to win an acting Oscar. One is to deliver the best performance of the year that is so undeniable that the critics, guilds and Academy rally behind it. The other is to be so overdue for an Oscar that voters realize that your time for a career statue has finally come. Elizabeth Taylor lost three times and then won statuettes for both of her next two nominations, for “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” After seven nominations and an Honorary Oscar, Paul Newman finally took home the win for “The Color of Money,” which was really for “The Verdict” and all the other great performances before.
This year, after seven nominations and no wins, Best Actress is Glenn Close’s to lose. But it wasn’t always in the bag. Many things had to go right. Sony Pictures Classics carefully timed the August...
This year, after seven nominations and no wins, Best Actress is Glenn Close’s to lose. But it wasn’t always in the bag. Many things had to go right. Sony Pictures Classics carefully timed the August...
- 2/8/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
There are two ways to win an acting Oscar. One is to deliver the best performance of the year that is so undeniable that the critics, guilds and Academy rally behind it. The other is to be so overdue for an Oscar that voters realize that your time for a career statue has finally come. Elizabeth Taylor lost three times and then won statuettes for both of her next two nominations, for “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” After seven nominations and an Honorary Oscar, Paul Newman finally took home the win for “The Color of Money,” which was really for “The Verdict” and all the other great performances before.
This year, after seven nominations and no wins, Best Actress is Glenn Close’s to lose. But it wasn’t always in the bag. Many things had to go right. Sony Pictures Classics carefully timed the August...
This year, after seven nominations and no wins, Best Actress is Glenn Close’s to lose. But it wasn’t always in the bag. Many things had to go right. Sony Pictures Classics carefully timed the August...
- 2/8/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The BAFTA Awards are Feb. 10, with Oscars two weeks later. All the lead actress nominees are terrific, but Glenn Close creates something unique because it’s so subtle. What she does is harder than it looks.
In Sony Classics’ “The Wife,” Close has the least showy role of the contenders, which is usually an awards disadvantage. She doesn’t have any “big scenes,” there’s no hysteria, no scenery-chewing, no calculated “This’ll get ’em!” moments. Instead, she offers a lesson in film acting.
Close told Variety that the challenge and “thrill” were in creating a woman who has so much going on internally; the character, Joan Castleman, has spent her life trying to fade into the background of her writer-husband, but both hit a crisis when he’s awarded a Nobel Prize for literature.
“There were years of her reveling in the work, but slowly seeing her husband become delusional about his creative process,...
In Sony Classics’ “The Wife,” Close has the least showy role of the contenders, which is usually an awards disadvantage. She doesn’t have any “big scenes,” there’s no hysteria, no scenery-chewing, no calculated “This’ll get ’em!” moments. Instead, she offers a lesson in film acting.
Close told Variety that the challenge and “thrill” were in creating a woman who has so much going on internally; the character, Joan Castleman, has spent her life trying to fade into the background of her writer-husband, but both hit a crisis when he’s awarded a Nobel Prize for literature.
“There were years of her reveling in the work, but slowly seeing her husband become delusional about his creative process,...
- 2/8/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
To mark the release of The Wife, out now, we’ve been given a prize bundle containing a signed theatrical poster, a signed book, a Blu-ray copy, and a bookmark to give away.
Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to support her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour with undiminished grace and humour.
The foundations of their marriage have, however, been built upon a set of uneven compromises and Joan has reached a turning point. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel rewarding a spectacular body of work, Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets.
Based on the bestselling book by Meg Wolitzer, The Wife is a poignant,...
Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to support her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour with undiminished grace and humour.
The foundations of their marriage have, however, been built upon a set of uneven compromises and Joan has reached a turning point. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel rewarding a spectacular body of work, Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets.
Based on the bestselling book by Meg Wolitzer, The Wife is a poignant,...
- 2/3/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
SAG Awards Ceremony Auction Features Autographed Collectibles by Nominees, VIP Experiences and More!
The SAG Awards Ceremony Auction begins today, Friday, January 25, at 9 p.m. Et / 6 p.m. Pt at sagawards.org/auction.
The SAG Awards Ceremony Auction offers film buffs and television fans the chance to win autographed collectibles signed by many of this year’s nominated actors including Lady Gaga, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Timothée Chalamet and casts of “BlacKkKlansman,” “Black Panther,” “The Favourite” and more. Also up for bid are tapings to “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and “American Idol,” and premium items and exclusive experiences including a VIP trip for 2 to France to visit the Champagne Taittinger estate in Reims, and an exclusive ride aboard the Goodyear Blimp. The online auction closes Monday, February 4 at 9 p.m. Et / 6 p.m. Pt.
Proceeds from the SAG Awards Ceremony Auction support the SAG-aftra Foundation's award-winning children’s literacy program Storyline Online where actors read to children. Storyline Online...
The SAG Awards Ceremony Auction offers film buffs and television fans the chance to win autographed collectibles signed by many of this year’s nominated actors including Lady Gaga, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Timothée Chalamet and casts of “BlacKkKlansman,” “Black Panther,” “The Favourite” and more. Also up for bid are tapings to “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and “American Idol,” and premium items and exclusive experiences including a VIP trip for 2 to France to visit the Champagne Taittinger estate in Reims, and an exclusive ride aboard the Goodyear Blimp. The online auction closes Monday, February 4 at 9 p.m. Et / 6 p.m. Pt.
Proceeds from the SAG Awards Ceremony Auction support the SAG-aftra Foundation's award-winning children’s literacy program Storyline Online where actors read to children. Storyline Online...
- 1/30/2019
- Look to the Stars
Glenn Close, who is enjoying her seventh nomination this morning for portraying the woman behind a world-renown writer in The Wife told Deadline that the role “was different than anything I had ever done before.”
Close has been nominated for four Best Actress and three Best Supporting Actress awards in such roles as Albert Nobbs, Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attraction, The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp — an incredible body of work so far (not to mention her work on stage).
The Wife, distributed by Sony Classics, was shot well before the #MeToo movement took hold – timing was everything as the story fits right in with the narrative of women finding their voices.
Close won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama earlier this month and spoke during her acceptance speech about her own mother “who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life,...
Close has been nominated for four Best Actress and three Best Supporting Actress awards in such roles as Albert Nobbs, Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attraction, The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp — an incredible body of work so far (not to mention her work on stage).
The Wife, distributed by Sony Classics, was shot well before the #MeToo movement took hold – timing was everything as the story fits right in with the narrative of women finding their voices.
Close won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama earlier this month and spoke during her acceptance speech about her own mother “who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life,...
- 1/22/2019
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
The Costume Designers Guild said The Wife Golden Globe winner Glenn Close and costume designer Betty Pecha Madden will be honored during the 21st annual Cdg Awards on February 19 at the Beverly Hilton.
Close, a six-time Oscar nominee, will receive the guild’s Spotlight Award, which honors “an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design.” She is in the heat of awards season now with Sony Pictures Classics’ drama based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel.
Madden will receive the guild’s Distinguished Service Award, given to “individuals whose specialties and talents contribute to the craft and art of Costume Design.” Her five decades of film and TV credits include movies like 1982’s The Beastmaster, Frank & Jesse and Above Suspicion and TV movies including The Heidi Chronicles and a pair of Jesse Stone telefilms.
Also...
Close, a six-time Oscar nominee, will receive the guild’s Spotlight Award, which honors “an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design.” She is in the heat of awards season now with Sony Pictures Classics’ drama based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel.
Madden will receive the guild’s Distinguished Service Award, given to “individuals whose specialties and talents contribute to the craft and art of Costume Design.” Her five decades of film and TV credits include movies like 1982’s The Beastmaster, Frank & Jesse and Above Suspicion and TV movies including The Heidi Chronicles and a pair of Jesse Stone telefilms.
Also...
- 1/18/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Glenn Close gets an honor, AFI names its Directing Workshop for Women participants and Teri Polo gets cast in a Christmas drama.
Close Honor
Glenn Close will be honored on Feb. 21 by the Us-Ireland Alliance at the 14th Annual Oscar Wilde Awards, held at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot in Santa Monica, Calif.
Melissa McCarthy, the recipient of an Oscar Wilde Award in 2012, will present Close with her award. Abrams, a previous honoree, will emcee.
A six-time Academy Award nominee, Glenn Close stars in the title role of the film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel, “The Wife,” with Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater for Swedish director Bjorn Runge. Close has won a Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award for in a tie with Lady Gaga. Close received her sixth Academy Award nomination in 2012 for “Albert Nobbs.”
Close has also been nominated for Oscars for “Fatal Attraction,...
Close Honor
Glenn Close will be honored on Feb. 21 by the Us-Ireland Alliance at the 14th Annual Oscar Wilde Awards, held at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot in Santa Monica, Calif.
Melissa McCarthy, the recipient of an Oscar Wilde Award in 2012, will present Close with her award. Abrams, a previous honoree, will emcee.
A six-time Academy Award nominee, Glenn Close stars in the title role of the film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel, “The Wife,” with Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater for Swedish director Bjorn Runge. Close has won a Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award for in a tie with Lady Gaga. Close received her sixth Academy Award nomination in 2012 for “Albert Nobbs.”
Close has also been nominated for Oscars for “Fatal Attraction,...
- 1/16/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics is boosting the screen count of its Glenn Close-starrer The Wife beginning Friday, a week after Close’s best actress in a drama win at the Golden Globes that featured a stirring speech from the six-time Oscar nominee. The victory put her in a front-runner position to get a seventh Oscar nom later this month.
The studio said today it was raising the theater count to more than 150 screens for the upcoming frame. The pic opened August 17 and has grossed $8.2 million at the domestic box office to date, and $16.8 million worldwide. At its highest peak in mid-September, the film played on 541 screens; last week, the count was 10.
Spc made a similar screen-count push in December to keep the film — and Close’s performance — top of mind for awards season. She has landed noms from SAG, Critics’ Choice, Spirits and the Gothams so far, and added a BAFTA Awards nom this morning.
The studio said today it was raising the theater count to more than 150 screens for the upcoming frame. The pic opened August 17 and has grossed $8.2 million at the domestic box office to date, and $16.8 million worldwide. At its highest peak in mid-September, the film played on 541 screens; last week, the count was 10.
Spc made a similar screen-count push in December to keep the film — and Close’s performance — top of mind for awards season. She has landed noms from SAG, Critics’ Choice, Spirits and the Gothams so far, and added a BAFTA Awards nom this morning.
- 1/9/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
When Glenn Close picked up a Golden Globe for her performance in The Wife last week, her acceptance speech reduced some of the biggest players in Hollywood to tears. And for good reason. Close talked about not allowing yourself to be be subjugated by others, and how it’s not too late to acknowledge a long-held dream–relatable stuff for so many, and entirely on topic for her winning role.
As Joan Castleman, Close is the titular wife accompanying her celebrated novelist husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) to Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature–a story based on Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 book of the same name. Joan is by turns nurturing and then simmering with a deep rage at having lived a life that led to her husband collecting a prize she herself deserved.
Speaking via phone from her mountain home far from California, Close looks back on the...
As Joan Castleman, Close is the titular wife accompanying her celebrated novelist husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) to Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature–a story based on Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 book of the same name. Joan is by turns nurturing and then simmering with a deep rage at having lived a life that led to her husband collecting a prize she herself deserved.
Speaking via phone from her mountain home far from California, Close looks back on the...
- 1/9/2019
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
In a typically crowded field of contenders for Best Actress, Lady Gaga has been a favorite throughout the season, for her turn in A Star is Born. But tonight at the Golden Globes—one of many Oscar precursors—Glenn Close stole the show. A six-time Oscar nominee, Close was recognized as Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, for her role in The Wife, an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name. In the film from Björn Rung, she plays a woman questioning the choices she’s made in her life, and so appropriately, as the actress took to the stage, she reflected on her own. “When I was little, I felt like Muhammad Ali, who was destined to be a boxer. I felt destined to be an actress, and here I am today,” she said. ” I will have been 45 years, in September, a working actress, and...
- 1/7/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival Gala on Jan. 3, held at the Palm Springs Convention Center, honors a variety of talent. For more information, see psfilmfest.org/events/events-calendar/film-awards-gala. Those being feted include:
The cast of “Mary Poppins Returns”
Ensemble Performance Award
“‘Mary Poppins Returns is a happy film, that re-creates the magic and adventure of the first film,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner. “In this outstanding sequel, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family as they race to keep the bank’s executives from foreclosing on their home. Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda lead an excellent ensemble cast that also includes Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury and many others.” The film has been named one of the top 10 movies of the year by AFI and the National Board of Review. It’s received four Critics Choice nominations,...
The cast of “Mary Poppins Returns”
Ensemble Performance Award
“‘Mary Poppins Returns is a happy film, that re-creates the magic and adventure of the first film,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner. “In this outstanding sequel, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family as they race to keep the bank’s executives from foreclosing on their home. Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda lead an excellent ensemble cast that also includes Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury and many others.” The film has been named one of the top 10 movies of the year by AFI and the National Board of Review. It’s received four Critics Choice nominations,...
- 1/3/2019
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Before Glenn Close could portray the title character in The Wife, the actress had to win over a true skeptic — herself.
“The biggest challenge was for me to understand why she never left him,” Close said of Joan Castleman, the long-suffering partner of a vain novelist. “In answering that question, I really got to an understanding of the character. But that was what I was worried about in the beginning. I was worried that all the women who saw the movie would just say, ‘Ugh, just leave him.’ But it was much, much more complicated than that.”
Close got her 15th career Golden Globe nomination on Thursday for sticking with the role in director Björn Runge’s drama, which is based on the Meg Wolitzer bestselling novel of the same title. Close acted opposite Jonathan Pryce, who she hailed for his talent as well as his temerity.
“He had the...
“The biggest challenge was for me to understand why she never left him,” Close said of Joan Castleman, the long-suffering partner of a vain novelist. “In answering that question, I really got to an understanding of the character. But that was what I was worried about in the beginning. I was worried that all the women who saw the movie would just say, ‘Ugh, just leave him.’ But it was much, much more complicated than that.”
Close got her 15th career Golden Globe nomination on Thursday for sticking with the role in director Björn Runge’s drama, which is based on the Meg Wolitzer bestselling novel of the same title. Close acted opposite Jonathan Pryce, who she hailed for his talent as well as his temerity.
“He had the...
- 12/7/2018
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics is expanding the theater count of its Glenn Close-starring drama The Wife this weekend, boosting it by more than 400 screens nationally to ramp up its profile with awards season in full swing.
Close has already been nominated for Best Actress awards from the Gothams and the Spirit Awards, and has received honorary kudos from awards-season staple festivals Santa Barbara and Palm Springs as her Oscar buzz continues to grow. She stars opposite Jonathan Pryce in the timely drama, about a woman, long in the shadow of a powerful man, who stands up for herself and her self-worth.
Swedish helmer Bjorn Runge directed Jane Anderson’s adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel. Christian Slater, Annie Starke, Max Irons and Harry Lloyd also star.
Sony Classics, which picked up The Wife ahead of its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, released it August 17 in four theaters,...
Close has already been nominated for Best Actress awards from the Gothams and the Spirit Awards, and has received honorary kudos from awards-season staple festivals Santa Barbara and Palm Springs as her Oscar buzz continues to grow. She stars opposite Jonathan Pryce in the timely drama, about a woman, long in the shadow of a powerful man, who stands up for herself and her self-worth.
Swedish helmer Bjorn Runge directed Jane Anderson’s adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel. Christian Slater, Annie Starke, Max Irons and Harry Lloyd also star.
Sony Classics, which picked up The Wife ahead of its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, released it August 17 in four theaters,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
We are recognizing Glenn Close for her excellent performances. Our Hollywood Film Tributes recognize films and talent for their excellence in the art of filmmaking. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Glenn Close made her feature film debut in George Roy Hill’s The World According to Garp, earning her awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review as well as her first Academy Award nomination. She was subsequently Oscar-nominated for The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction and Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons (for which she was also a BAFTA Award nominee). Close stars in the title role of Jane Anderson’s film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel, The Wife, with Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater for Swedish director Björn Runge, which opened earlier this year. Close also stars in the title role of Jane Anderson’s stage play, Mother of the Maid,...
- 12/3/2018
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present Glenn Close with the Icon Award for her performance in “The Wife.”
The awards ceremony will be held Jan. 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival runs Jan. 3-14.
“Glenn Close is a rare and enduring talent who has consistently brought challenging characters to life on film, television and stage for over four decades,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner. “In her latest feature film, ‘The Wife,’ she gives a tour-de-force performance as the perfect spouse, who relinquishes her own ambitions to propel her husband’s career. It is our honor to present the 2019 Icon Award to Glenn Close.”
Past recipients of the Icon Award include Willem Dafoe, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep. In 2011, the Palm Springs International Film Festival gave Close the Career Achievement Award for her performance in “Albert Nobbs.”
Close has been nominated for Academy...
The awards ceremony will be held Jan. 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival runs Jan. 3-14.
“Glenn Close is a rare and enduring talent who has consistently brought challenging characters to life on film, television and stage for over four decades,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner. “In her latest feature film, ‘The Wife,’ she gives a tour-de-force performance as the perfect spouse, who relinquishes her own ambitions to propel her husband’s career. It is our honor to present the 2019 Icon Award to Glenn Close.”
Past recipients of the Icon Award include Willem Dafoe, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep. In 2011, the Palm Springs International Film Festival gave Close the Career Achievement Award for her performance in “Albert Nobbs.”
Close has been nominated for Academy...
- 11/9/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Glenn Close has been selected to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at the 34th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Close will be honored on Feb. 2 for her longstanding contributions to the film industry, most recently in Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Wife.” Leonard Maltin will return for his 28th year to moderate the evening.
“Glenn Close is one of the great actresses of our time,” Maltin said. “Versatility is her hallmark, and there is clearly nothing she can’t do. She became a star with her first feature film, ‘The World According to Garp,’ and has gone on to play everyone from Cruella de Vil to aging silent-film star Norma Desmond in the stage musical of ‘Sunset Blvd.’ I can’t wait to spend an evening with her onstage at the Arlington Theater.”
“The Wife” was directed by Bjorn Runge from a script adapted by Jane Anderson from the...
Close will be honored on Feb. 2 for her longstanding contributions to the film industry, most recently in Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Wife.” Leonard Maltin will return for his 28th year to moderate the evening.
“Glenn Close is one of the great actresses of our time,” Maltin said. “Versatility is her hallmark, and there is clearly nothing she can’t do. She became a star with her first feature film, ‘The World According to Garp,’ and has gone on to play everyone from Cruella de Vil to aging silent-film star Norma Desmond in the stage musical of ‘Sunset Blvd.’ I can’t wait to spend an evening with her onstage at the Arlington Theater.”
“The Wife” was directed by Bjorn Runge from a script adapted by Jane Anderson from the...
- 10/23/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Hollywood, CA – dick clark productions announced today several spectacular additions to the list of honorees at the 22nd Annual “Hollywood Film Awards.” Glenn Close will receive the “Hollywood Actress Award” for her stunning performance in Sony Pictures Classic’s The Wife, while Hugh Jackman will be recognized for his powerful turn in Sony Pictures’ The Front Runner. Damien Chazelle will receive the “Hollywood Director Award” for his work on Universal Pictures’ First Man. They join previously announced honorees Nicole Kidman, who will receive this year’s “Hollywood Career Achievement Award,” Timothée Chalamet and Rachel Weisz, who will receive the “Hollywood Supporting Actor Award” and “Hollywood Supporting Actress Award,” respectively, Crazy Rich Asians, which will receive the “Hollywood Breakout Ensemble Award,” Amandla Stenberg, who will receive the “Hollywood Breakout Performance Actress Award,” John David Washington, who will receive the “Hollywood Breakout Performance Actor Award,” Felix Van Groeningen, who will receive the “Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award,...
- 10/18/2018
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to Meg Wolitzer’s novel, “The Female Persuasion,” with Nicole Kidman producing, TheWrap has learned.
Kidman will produce the film adaptation through her Blossom Films production banner, which recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon. Lynda Obst and Per Saari will also produce, with “This Is Us” showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger attached as screenwriters and executive producers.
Also Read: Amazon Studios, Nicole Kidman Acquire Rights to 'The Female Persuasion'
“The Female Persuasion” will be a topical film, as it follows a college student named Greer Kadetsky who is groped by a serial abuser at a party and speaks out, only for her university to not take action. It will be the second film by Wolitzer to be adapted into a feature film, following the Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce drama “The Wife,” which was released by Sony Pictures Classics last month.
The deal...
Kidman will produce the film adaptation through her Blossom Films production banner, which recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon. Lynda Obst and Per Saari will also produce, with “This Is Us” showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger attached as screenwriters and executive producers.
Also Read: Amazon Studios, Nicole Kidman Acquire Rights to 'The Female Persuasion'
“The Female Persuasion” will be a topical film, as it follows a college student named Greer Kadetsky who is groped by a serial abuser at a party and speaks out, only for her university to not take action. It will be the second film by Wolitzer to be adapted into a feature film, following the Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce drama “The Wife,” which was released by Sony Pictures Classics last month.
The deal...
- 9/26/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to “The Female Persuasion,” an acclaimed best-seller by Meg Wolitzer.
The movie will be produced by Lynda Obst (“Contact”), Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, and Per Saari (“Big Little Lies”). Blossom Films, Kidman’s production company, recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon — this film will be a part of that pact.
“The Female Persuasion” centers on Greer Kadetsky, a college student who is groped at a fraternity party and becomes emboldened to speak up for women’s rights. But her assailant turns out to be a serial abuser and her university fails to take action. In addition to Greer, Wolitzer’s book follows several other characters, including Zee, a fellow student with an activist streak, and Faith Frank, a feminist icon. Reviews for the book were sterling, with The Guardian praising it as “warm and witty, and necessary.”
The book is being adapted and...
The movie will be produced by Lynda Obst (“Contact”), Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, and Per Saari (“Big Little Lies”). Blossom Films, Kidman’s production company, recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon — this film will be a part of that pact.
“The Female Persuasion” centers on Greer Kadetsky, a college student who is groped at a fraternity party and becomes emboldened to speak up for women’s rights. But her assailant turns out to be a serial abuser and her university fails to take action. In addition to Greer, Wolitzer’s book follows several other characters, including Zee, a fellow student with an activist streak, and Faith Frank, a feminist icon. Reviews for the book were sterling, with The Guardian praising it as “warm and witty, and necessary.”
The book is being adapted and...
- 9/26/2018
- by Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The award-winning actor on playing a narcissistic writer opposite Glenn Close in The Wife, his Welsh roots, and looking like the pope
Jonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes, starred in musicals, is the winner of Tony awards (Comedians and Miss Saigon) and now, at 71, has been cast three times as a self-absorbed novelist. He played a loathsome author-mentor in the film Listen Up Philip, is currently rehearsing as another novelist in Florian Zeller’s new play The Height of the Storm, and plays curmudgeonly narcissist Joseph Castleman, winner of a Nobel prize for literature, in Björn Runge’s new film The Wife, opposite Glenn Close.
What are the challenges of performing an intensely self-absorbed, often childish writer like Joseph Castleman? And how often do you feel like a child yourself?
He is very well drawn, although I’ve not read Meg Wolitzer’s novel because reading [the original work] alongside a screenplay can...
Jonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes, starred in musicals, is the winner of Tony awards (Comedians and Miss Saigon) and now, at 71, has been cast three times as a self-absorbed novelist. He played a loathsome author-mentor in the film Listen Up Philip, is currently rehearsing as another novelist in Florian Zeller’s new play The Height of the Storm, and plays curmudgeonly narcissist Joseph Castleman, winner of a Nobel prize for literature, in Björn Runge’s new film The Wife, opposite Glenn Close.
What are the challenges of performing an intensely self-absorbed, often childish writer like Joseph Castleman? And how often do you feel like a child yourself?
He is very well drawn, although I’ve not read Meg Wolitzer’s novel because reading [the original work] alongside a screenplay can...
- 9/16/2018
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
Glenn Close as Joan Castleman, listening as her novelist husband gives his acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony, in The Wife. Photo by Graeme Hunter, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics ©
Glenn Close gives one of the best performances of her career in The Wife, a drama exploring the relationship of a long-married couple as the husband, a famous author, is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The drama peels back the layers of the relationship and the inner life of the wife, while exploring society’s shifting attitudes towards women’s careers, with both gripping performances and an engrossing and timely story.
There is that old saying “behind every great man is a great woman,” a phrase that seems to praise that woman while also leaving her in his shadow. The relationship between brash famous author husband Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) and his quiet, elegant wife Joan (Glen Close...
Glenn Close gives one of the best performances of her career in The Wife, a drama exploring the relationship of a long-married couple as the husband, a famous author, is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The drama peels back the layers of the relationship and the inner life of the wife, while exploring society’s shifting attitudes towards women’s careers, with both gripping performances and an engrossing and timely story.
There is that old saying “behind every great man is a great woman,” a phrase that seems to praise that woman while also leaving her in his shadow. The relationship between brash famous author husband Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) and his quiet, elegant wife Joan (Glen Close...
- 9/7/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – One of the more fascinating questions about civilization is ‘how much talent went unrealized because of time and place of birth?’ The patriarchy – which denied people of color and women for so long – often reduced fellow travelers into subservient roles. For example, there were women who were just known as “The Wife.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The latest film with that title, adapted from a novel with the same name by Meg Wolitzer, is a classic drama about roles in a marriage, which were more delineated in the era the featured couple was married… the late 1950s. This plays out, in flashback and the present, as the husband wins the Nobel Prize for literature. And in this case, the wife is in the background, but as the story develops there are certain truths that have defined their marriage, and those unburied facts unearth counterproductive feelings as the ceremony swirls around them. All couples have secrets,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The latest film with that title, adapted from a novel with the same name by Meg Wolitzer, is a classic drama about roles in a marriage, which were more delineated in the era the featured couple was married… the late 1950s. This plays out, in flashback and the present, as the husband wins the Nobel Prize for literature. And in this case, the wife is in the background, but as the story develops there are certain truths that have defined their marriage, and those unburied facts unearth counterproductive feelings as the ceremony swirls around them. All couples have secrets,...
- 8/24/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce make such a convincing onscreen couple, it’s hard to believe that their first time working together is in director Björn Runge’s “The Wife,” opening this week.
Both broke into Hollywood about the same time; Close with her Oscar-nominated film debut in 1982’s “The World According to Garp” and Pryce as the embodiment of evil in 1983’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” Both have enjoyed heralded stage careers, scooping up Tony Awards — three for Close, two for Pryce.
Based on a novel by Meg Wolitzer, “The Wife” is an intimate and searing portrait of a long-term marriage in all its secrets and compromises. The pair portray Joan and Joe Castleman, who are forced to confront some tough truths when Joe is awarded a Nobel Prize for his latest novel. The pair spoke recently after a screening of the film, before Close had to return...
Both broke into Hollywood about the same time; Close with her Oscar-nominated film debut in 1982’s “The World According to Garp” and Pryce as the embodiment of evil in 1983’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” Both have enjoyed heralded stage careers, scooping up Tony Awards — three for Close, two for Pryce.
Based on a novel by Meg Wolitzer, “The Wife” is an intimate and searing portrait of a long-term marriage in all its secrets and compromises. The pair portray Joan and Joe Castleman, who are forced to confront some tough truths when Joe is awarded a Nobel Prize for his latest novel. The pair spoke recently after a screening of the film, before Close had to return...
- 8/17/2018
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
“The Wife” opened on August 17 at the intersection of a couple of movie industry crossroads. One of those is Glenn Close, who is already the subject of discussion over whether this role will finally bring the actress a long-overdue Oscar after six previous nominations. The other is the #MeToo movement, which resonates in the film’s portrait of a woman whose experiences and indignities are kept hidden behind the public’s adoration of her Great Artist husband (Jonathan Pryce).
Critics are responding well to the Sony Classics film. As of this writing it has scored 75 on MetaCritic based on 16 reviews. And it’s 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews. The Rt consensus says the film “relies on the strength of Glenn Close’s performance to drive home the power of its story — and she proves thoroughly, grippingly up to the task.”
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Critics are responding well to the Sony Classics film. As of this writing it has scored 75 on MetaCritic based on 16 reviews. And it’s 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews. The Rt consensus says the film “relies on the strength of Glenn Close’s performance to drive home the power of its story — and she proves thoroughly, grippingly up to the task.”
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- 8/17/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Sony Pictures Classics expects summer blockbuster fatigue to help its weekend newcomer The Wife starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce, opening New York and Los Angeles Friday. The film is one of a fairly busy slate of limited release newcomers, perhaps hinting at another busy fall as awards season looms. Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate is bowing Juliet, Naked Friday in NYC and L.A., starring Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O’Dowd. Sundance favorite We The Animals by Jeremiah Zagar opens Friday in New York en route to a 100-plus location count by end of September, via The Orchard. Music Box Films is launching French-language Memoir Of War based on the book by Marguerite Duras. And actor Peter Facinelli is making his directorial debut with comedy Breaking & Exiting starring Milo Gibson and Jordan Hinson, making its way to select locations in a day and date roll out via Freestyle Digital Media.
- 8/17/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Glenn Close gives a riveting performance in The Wife, playing Joan Castelman, woman whose passion for writing and her husband Joe have been seemingly peaceful bedfellows for years. Their union takes a turn for the worse after Joe is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel, the story also focuses on the [...]
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Based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel, the story also focuses on the [...]
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- 8/15/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
In Swedish director Bjorn Runge’s film version of the 2003 Meg Wolitzer novel, the brilliant Glenn Close plays Joan Castleman, the wife of celebrated author Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), who’s just won the Nobel Prize for literature. For him, the win is better than sex, which the lusty lion enjoys quite a lot even (and especially) outside the bedroom he shares with his wife. For her, however, the triumph sparks a crisis of identity and conscience that builds as the couple arrives in Stockholm. Adoration will be lavished on Joe; meanwhile,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Last night saw a bevy of stars walk the red carpet for the UK Premiere of The Wife, the new film directed by Björn Runge, written by Jane Anderson from the Meg Wolitzer novel.
The film stars Harry Lloyd, Christian Slater, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Max Irons. Pryce talked to us about his experiences on the film as well as giving us a little update on Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote.
The Wife will be released in the UK on the 28th of September, 2018. Here are our interviews from the red carpet, courtesy of Colin Hart and Scott Davis.
The Wife Premiere Interviews
Synopsis
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he’ll be receiving a prestigious award.
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The film stars Harry Lloyd, Christian Slater, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Max Irons. Pryce talked to us about his experiences on the film as well as giving us a little update on Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote.
The Wife will be released in the UK on the 28th of September, 2018. Here are our interviews from the red carpet, courtesy of Colin Hart and Scott Davis.
The Wife Premiere Interviews
Synopsis
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he’ll be receiving a prestigious award.
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- 8/10/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Glenn Close will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image at its 32nd annual Salute on Dec. 3 at the 583 Park Ave event space in New York, Ivan L. Lustig, co-chairman of the museum’s board of trustees, and Carl Goodman, the museum’s executive director, announced Tuesday.
A six-time Oscar nominee, Glenn Close next stars in The Wife, an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name, which Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Aug. 17. The film, directed by Bjorn Runge, also stars Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater. Close will make her Public Theater ...
A six-time Oscar nominee, Glenn Close next stars in The Wife, an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name, which Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Aug. 17. The film, directed by Bjorn Runge, also stars Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater. Close will make her Public Theater ...
Glenn Close will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image at its 32nd annual Salute on Dec. 3 at the 583 Park Ave event space in New York, Ivan L. Lustig, co-chairman of the museum’s board of trustees, and Carl Goodman, the museum’s executive director, announced Tuesday.
A six-time Oscar nominee, Glenn Close next stars in The Wife, an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name, which Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Aug. 17. The film, directed by Bjorn Runge, also stars Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater. Close will make her Public Theater ...
A six-time Oscar nominee, Glenn Close next stars in The Wife, an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name, which Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Aug. 17. The film, directed by Bjorn Runge, also stars Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater. Close will make her Public Theater ...
The Wife Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Bjorne Runge Screenwriter: Jane Anderson adapted from Meg Wolitzer’s novel Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater Max Irons, Harry Lloyd, Annie Starke, Alix Wilton Regan Screened at: Sony, NYC, 6/27/18 Opens: August 17, 2018 In one scene, Joe Castleman (Harry Lloyd), a writing professor […]
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- 8/2/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
“It’s the best thing she’s ever done,” insists one Oscar voter after viewing Glenn Close’s performance in “The Wife” at a private screening recently cohosted by Martha Stewart in East Hampton, New York. “She’s got my vote.”
The screening generated significant academy buzz for the overdue star on the eve of the movie’s national release by Sony Pictures Classics on Aug. 17.
“Glenn Close perfectly expressed the whole spectrum” of emotions in her role as a woman who has ghostwritten for her famous literary husband and stayed in the shadows, according to best-selling author and fashion journalist Kate Betts. “Emotions from absolute devotion to absolute betrayal.”
“The Wife” is based upon a novel written 15 years ago by Meg Wolitzer, who was on hand for the screening. “The things that I was grappling with back in 2003 are eerily relevant to what men and women are going through today,...
The screening generated significant academy buzz for the overdue star on the eve of the movie’s national release by Sony Pictures Classics on Aug. 17.
“Glenn Close perfectly expressed the whole spectrum” of emotions in her role as a woman who has ghostwritten for her famous literary husband and stayed in the shadows, according to best-selling author and fashion journalist Kate Betts. “Emotions from absolute devotion to absolute betrayal.”
“The Wife” is based upon a novel written 15 years ago by Meg Wolitzer, who was on hand for the screening. “The things that I was grappling with back in 2003 are eerily relevant to what men and women are going through today,...
- 7/29/2018
- by Bill McCuddy
- Gold Derby
When she hits, it hurts! The film also hits all the right notes.
The male arrogance and total self-centeredness, the disease of success as it affects men who know it is undeserved but cannot admit the truth even to themselves. The lies and deceptions all to aggrandize their inner sense, no, their knowledge of their male inferiority; it is all here in this film.
The woman creates and men are only her babies. She raises them to be kings, and they forget that it is the women who are the king makers.
When Jonathan Pryce, perhaps a little too elegant to play a tough New York street savvy Jew, has the arrogance to ask his wife Why did you marry me, you know this man has never loved but only lived for himself.
Glenn Close is at the height of her acting. Superb as the Smith educated Waspy, self-contained and restrained wife.
The male arrogance and total self-centeredness, the disease of success as it affects men who know it is undeserved but cannot admit the truth even to themselves. The lies and deceptions all to aggrandize their inner sense, no, their knowledge of their male inferiority; it is all here in this film.
The woman creates and men are only her babies. She raises them to be kings, and they forget that it is the women who are the king makers.
When Jonathan Pryce, perhaps a little too elegant to play a tough New York street savvy Jew, has the arrogance to ask his wife Why did you marry me, you know this man has never loved but only lived for himself.
Glenn Close is at the height of her acting. Superb as the Smith educated Waspy, self-contained and restrained wife.
- 7/17/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Glenn Close puts in a magnificent turn as the downtrodden wife of the noble prize winning husband who can’t keep it in his pants in the brand new trailer for The Wife.
Adapted from Meg Wolitzer’s bestseller, the film is directed by Björn Runge from a script by Jane Anderson. Close plays Joan Castleman opposite Jonathan Pryce as her husband.
Also in trailers – James Franco does Mad Max in trailer for Future World
We got to chat with Glenn during Toronto Film Festival about the movie last year which you can watch below.
Toronto Film Festival Red Carpet Interview
Christian Slater also stars as a Journalist who opens Joan’s eyes to her husband’s infidelities. Max Irons, Harry Lloyd and Annie Starke are also on the cast.
The film is set for a Us release on 3rd August with a UK release to follow on 28th September.
Adapted from Meg Wolitzer’s bestseller, the film is directed by Björn Runge from a script by Jane Anderson. Close plays Joan Castleman opposite Jonathan Pryce as her husband.
Also in trailers – James Franco does Mad Max in trailer for Future World
We got to chat with Glenn during Toronto Film Festival about the movie last year which you can watch below.
Toronto Film Festival Red Carpet Interview
Christian Slater also stars as a Journalist who opens Joan’s eyes to her husband’s infidelities. Max Irons, Harry Lloyd and Annie Starke are also on the cast.
The film is set for a Us release on 3rd August with a UK release to follow on 28th September.
- 4/11/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for “The Wife,” Björn Runge’s adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel of the same name. Glenn Close stars as the title character, with Jonathan Pryce playing her husband; he’s a revered author, while she’s relegated to simply being, well, the wife. “It was probably one of the trickiest roles I’ve ever confronted,” Close recently told Vanity Fair. “I think it’s a situation that every woman in the audience can relate to, whether they’re of younger generations or not.”
At the beginning of the trailer, Pryce is told he’s been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, an honor both he and Joan have apparently been happily anticipating for some time. In addition to bringing the couple to Sweden, the occasion reminds Close of her early years as a writer whose own aspirations took a backseat to those of her husband.
At the beginning of the trailer, Pryce is told he’s been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, an honor both he and Joan have apparently been happily anticipating for some time. In addition to bringing the couple to Sweden, the occasion reminds Close of her early years as a writer whose own aspirations took a backseat to those of her husband.
- 4/10/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“Worst Roommate Ever” (New York, Feb. 19, 2018) by William Brennan
Agency: ICM Partners
Think Single White Female for the Airbnb era. In this viral true magazine tale, Jamison Bachman moves in, stops paying rent, threatens legal action and never leaves. That is, until he meets Alex Miller. The nightmare scenario includes a murderous twist.
To Night Owl From Dogfish (Dial/Dutton, 2019) by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer
Agency: Wme
A TV writer and best-selling author team up for this kids book that’s The Parent Trap by way of Modern Family’s Mitchell and Cam. It’s about two very...
Agency: ICM Partners
Think Single White Female for the Airbnb era. In this viral true magazine tale, Jamison Bachman moves in, stops paying rent, threatens legal action and never leaves. That is, until he meets Alex Miller. The nightmare scenario includes a murderous twist.
To Night Owl From Dogfish (Dial/Dutton, 2019) by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer
Agency: Wme
A TV writer and best-selling author team up for this kids book that’s The Parent Trap by way of Modern Family’s Mitchell and Cam. It’s about two very...
- 3/7/2018
- by Andy Lewis,Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Saturday, Glenn Close and her lookalike daughter Annie Starke attended an an event at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain in support of their new film together The Wife — and Close couldn’t look prouder.
Wearing a black turtleneck with matching blazer and pants, Close, 70, looked as sophisticated as she smiled at her daughter during a photocall.
Starke, 29, wore a very similar outfit to her mother, swapping out a floral print shirt for her mother’s black one.
In The Wife — based on Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel of the same name — Close plays an author who upon...
Wearing a black turtleneck with matching blazer and pants, Close, 70, looked as sophisticated as she smiled at her daughter during a photocall.
Starke, 29, wore a very similar outfit to her mother, swapping out a floral print shirt for her mother’s black one.
In The Wife — based on Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel of the same name — Close plays an author who upon...
- 9/30/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to The Wife starring Glenn Close. Adapted by Jane Anderson from the Meg Wolitzer novel of the same name, the film stars Glenn Close,...
- 9/27/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Björn Runge’s The Wife, the Glenn Close starrer that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival to strong reviews for the actress. Adapted by Jane Anderson from the Meg Wolitzer novel, The Wife also stars Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Harry Lloyd and Annie Starke. Close plays Joan Castleman, the devoted wife of charismatic literary star Joe (Pryce). Ignoring his infidelities, Joan finally reaches…...
- 9/27/2017
- Deadline
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to The Wife, starring Glenn Close.
The adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel, directed by Bjorn Runge, also features Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Harry Lloyd and Annie Starke. It made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Wife stars Close as Joan Castleman, a highly intelligent and devoted wife who has spent 40 years ignoring her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. After tolerating his infidelities and excuses for decades, she...
The adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel, directed by Bjorn Runge, also features Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Harry Lloyd and Annie Starke. It made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Wife stars Close as Joan Castleman, a highly intelligent and devoted wife who has spent 40 years ignoring her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. After tolerating his infidelities and excuses for decades, she...
- 9/27/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Playing Joan, the wife of a newly-announced Nobel Prize-winning novelist Joseph (Jonathan Pryce) whose career she has supported while setting her own ambitions aside, Glenn Close gives one of her finest performances in Björn Runge’s latest feature. The actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in the affecting drama, aptly titled The Wife.
Runge’s film opens as the couple first receive news that Joseph has won the prize. They jump up and down on the bed like giddy children as he chants “I won the Nobel Prize.” As the significance sinks in and the full implications bear down, Joan abruptly stops celebrating and leaves the room. Things don’t get any better once they arrive in Sweden in preparation for Stockholm ceremony. Joan is clearly deeply annoyed by something and we can only guess what.
As more and more troubling details gradually spill forth, we learn...
Runge’s film opens as the couple first receive news that Joseph has won the prize. They jump up and down on the bed like giddy children as he chants “I won the Nobel Prize.” As the significance sinks in and the full implications bear down, Joan abruptly stops celebrating and leaves the room. Things don’t get any better once they arrive in Sweden in preparation for Stockholm ceremony. Joan is clearly deeply annoyed by something and we can only guess what.
As more and more troubling details gradually spill forth, we learn...
- 9/20/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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