• Elisabeth Moss to star in ‘Shining Girls’ for Leonardo DiCaprio on Apple+

    Elisabeth Moss to star in ‘Shining Girls’ for Leonardo DiCaprio on Apple+

    Apple has given a series order to “Shining Girls,” a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel “The Shining Girls,” starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. MRC Television is the studio. Writer-creator Silka Luisa (“Strange Angel”) will pen the adaptation, executive produce and serve …
  • Elisabeth Moss launches production company, Love & Squalor Pictures

    Elisabeth Moss launches production company, Love & Squalor Pictures

    Elisabeth Moss is launching a production company dramatically called Love & Squalor Pictures. She’s inked a first-look deal with Hulu and Fox, with former WME agent Lindsey McManus as the top exec. The first project will be called “Black Match,” in which Moss will star, and the series is described as a “psychosexual neo-noir thriller” …
  • ‘Shirley’ review: Boring, East Coast academics have problems, too

    ‘Shirley’ review: Boring, East Coast academics have problems, too

    A film about horror author Shirley Jackson turns into “Tales of East Coast Liberal Arts College Professors” in “Shirley,” Elisabeth Moss’ high-on-itself new schlep. The slow drama fictionalizes several months in the life of Shirley Jackson (Moss), the writer who gave us “The Haunting of Hill House,” as a smiley young couple comes to stay …
  • Ryan Gosling to play ‘Wolfman’ in reboot of horror classic

    Ryan Gosling to play ‘Wolfman’ in reboot of horror classic

    Months after Universal successfully relaunched its monster universe with Elisabeth Moss’s “The Invisible Man,” the studio is pushing ahead for “Wolfman” — which is being developed as a starring vehicle for Ryan Gosling — to be the next movie based on its catalog of iconic creatures. Sources tell Variety that executives at Universal have been …
  • Retta to host ‘The Invisible Man’ watch party Saturday on Twitter

    Retta to host ‘The Invisible Man’ watch party Saturday on Twitter

    “Parks & Recreation” actress Retta will be on hosting duties for a Twitter “Watch Party,” i.e. a communal film viewing conducted on social media, of Universal’s horror pic “The Invisible Man” this weekend. The studio is encouraging people to watch the movie in sync from 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. GMT) on …