A way to make a livin’: Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot
Aniston’s production company will reportedly reimagine the hit 1980 Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton comedy about sexism in the workplace – with a script by Diablo Cody
March 2024
Lisa Frankenstein review – lumbering teen zombie romcom by Diablo Cody
The screenwriter’s mashup of 80s teen horror tropes falls flat in Zelda Williams’s erratic feature debut
February 2024
Lisa Frankenstein review – Diablo Cody’s throwback comedy-horror is monster mush
The Oscar-winning screenwriter aims to recall 80s classics from Heathers to Beetlejuice but there are too many parts missing
September 2020
Madonna to direct and co-write her own biopic
The star will team with Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody and producer Amy Pascal to create a film on her rise to stardom
May 2018
Box office analysis: UK
Avengers: Infinity War well on way to be Marvel's biggest-ever UK box office hit
Marvel’s blockbuster fell hard yet pulled £10m as overall UK and Ireland revenues slid 61% in fine weather. Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty scored a respectable £1.2m
Tully review – perceptive take on the woes of motherhood
Jason Reitman and Charlize Theron are bang on form in this bleakly funny tale about a mum and her new night nanny
'There's this idea that mothers are completely selfless': Diablo Cody on Tully – and the Juno backlash
The Oscar-winning writer’s new film is about an exhausted mother slowly unravelling. She talks about the impact of motherhood, facing middle-age – and what she’d now change about Juno
January 2018
Tully review – Juno creators rekindle old magic in Charlize Theron pregnancy comedy
Jason Reitman reteams with screenwriter Diablo Cody for a marvellous movie about a struggling mother saved by a millennial Mary Poppins
December 2016
Film blog
The most exciting comedy films of 2017
In the first of a 10-part series, we run through the films we are most looking forward to next year. First up: comedy
April 2016
Charlize Theron, Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody reunite for parenting movie
The creative team responsible for the 2011 dark comedy Young Adult are working on a new film about parenting
September 2015
Ricki and the Flash review – Meryl Streep goes soft (rock)
This feminist-lite film about a mother-daughter relationship is fun, in an AOR-ish way, thanks to smart direction and some 80s music nostalgia
August 2015
Diablo Cody: ‘Thanks to me, you get to see Meryl Streep make out with Rick Springfield!’
Ricki and the Flash review – Meryl Streep's badass singing overrides the cliches
May 2015
The Iron Maiden Lady: Meryl Streep rocks out in Ricki and the Flash trailer
After another Oscar nomination for Into the Woods, Streep hopes to score again playing a rock star trying to make amends with her family
March 2015
Living doll: Diablo Cody working on rewrite of live-action Barbie film
Mattel and Sony hoping the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno will turn the former princess/mermaid/resident of Malibu into a real person
January 2015
Film blog
The 88 movies we're most excited about in 2015
Think 2014 was a good year for film? Think again. This year is shaping up to be one of the classics. Here’s what’s on our radar
June 2014
Meryl Streep to play rocker in Diablo Cody film and Maria Callas for HBO
Three-time Oscar winner to star alongside real-life daughter Mamie Gummer in Ricki and the Flash, as well as opera icon Maria Callas for HBO
August 2013
The populist
Populist: Items of interest this week
From the new Doctor's lifelong fandom to Big Boi from Outkast being cast into the Celeb Big Brother asylum
