Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to 1970s espionage thriller PONIES, starring and executive produced by Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones). The project, co-created, co-written and executive produced by Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant) and David Iserson (Mr. Robot) and exec produced by Jessica…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Susanna Fogel’s Winner, a political dramedy based on the true story of NSA whistleblower Reality Winner (Emilia Jones), which world premiered at Sundance 2024. Also starring Connie Britton (Nashville), Zach Galifianakis (A Wrinkle in Time)…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Television has acquired the rights to Jana Monroe's memoir Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit, And My Life As a Woman In The FBI to develop into a series. Winner filmmaker Susanna Fogel and Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead) will…

TITLE: WinnerSection: PremieresDirector: Susanna FogelScreenwriters: Susanna Fogel, Kerry HowleyLogline: Reality Winner (Emilia Jones) is a brilliant young misfit from a Texas border town who finds her morals challenged while serving as an NSA contractor. A sarcastic, gun-lovin’ vegan yogi and CrossFit…

American translator Reality Winner (yes, that’s her name) is probably better known in Europe than the U.S., thanks in part to Tina Satter's extraordinary arthouse film Reality (2023), which dramatized the 25-year-old Texas translator's arrest in 2017 using the verbatim transcripts of her interactions with…

After world premiering to much buzz at Sundance back in January, the darkly comedic dating thriller Cat Person has finally unveiled a first trailer and release date, having been set to open in U.S. theaters via Rialto Pictures beginning October 6th. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Solomon, film and television writer, has teamed up with the Black List to host Word by Word. The show will broadcast live on Zoom starting Thursday, June 29. “During a strike years ago, I took some writing classes in order to challenge the way I was approaching my work,” Solomon said in…

EXCLUSIVE: The Wilds star Shannon Berry has joined the cast of Susanna Fogel’s Canadian feature Winner. Berry is appearing opposite Emilia Jones, Zach Galifianakis, Kathryn Newton, Danny Ramirez and Connie Britton in the darkly comedic biopic. The casting reunites the emerging Australian actress with…

Based on one of the most sensational and much-discussed short stories of recent times, which was heralded as the most-read story ever to appear in the New Yorker, Cat Person is a disarmingly creepy film with a disturbing edge that will surely trigger further…

The core truth of human nature examined in Susanna Fogel’s stellar new thriller Cat Person is most succinctly summarized by the Margaret Atwood quote that serves as its epigraph. “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them,” she writes. “Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Both perspectives…

EXCLUSIVE: The remarkable story of a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for more than two years and then preserved Anne’s diary, is the subject of A Small Light, a National Geographic limited series ordered by Disney+. The project comes from Grey’s Anatomy alums Joan Rater…

In an autumn when the pandemic continued to keep us in the doldrums of lockdown, along came Warner Bros TV/Max Original’s The Flight Attendant starring Kaley Cuoco with its exotic locales and comedic set-up of a first-class flight hostess, Cassie Bowen, who wakes up next to her one-night stand in Bangkok with his…