Victoria Mahoney, who became the first woman ever to direct on a Star Wars movie when she served as second unit director on The Rise of Skywalker, has been tapped to direct Lionsgate's action-drama Shadow Force starring Sterling K. Brown and Kerry Washington. Written by Leon Chills and Joe Carnahan, Shadow Force follows an estranged couple with a bounty on their heads who must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer -- a unit of shadow ops that has been sent to kill them. Brown and Washington will produce via their respective companies Indian …

Victoria Mahoney, who served as the second unit director on J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is in negotiations to land her first major studio directing gig with Paramount's action movie Kill Them All. Mahoney will direct from a script by James Coyne, based on the Oni Press graphic novel of the same name by Kyle Starks. Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) will produce the movie, which sounds a bit like The Raid with a female lead. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, describing Kill Them All as "a love letter to …

Ava DuVernay is a talented filmmaker whose subjects of focus alternate between incisive portrayals of real-life events (Selma) and big-dreaming, hard-hitting flights of high-concept fantasy (A Wrinkle in Time). Now, a new sci-fi series at Amazon promises to blend the two impulses together -- and DuVernay is bringing along rising talent Victoria Mahoney for the ride. Per Variety, the two are developing Dawn, an adaptation of the influential sci-fi novel, for the streamer. The original novel, written in 1987 by Octavia E. Butler, is part of a three-novel series that continues with Adulthood Rites …