Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Cynthia Nixon

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• Exploding Girl (NYC)
• Alice in Wonderland written by Linda Woolverton
• Toe to Toe, written and directed by Emily Abt (LA)
• Prodigal Sons, directed by Kimberly Reed (doc) (NYC)
• Happy Tears
• When in Rome
• The Girl on the Train
• Fish Tank, written and directed by Andrea Arnold
• It's Complicated, directed by Nancy Meyers
• The Young Victoria
• The Lovely Bones
• The Princess and the Frog
• New Moon
• The Blind Side
• Precious
• An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig
• The Maid
• Seraphine

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- March 19
• The Runaways, directed by Floria Sigismondi- March 19
• Falling for Grace, written and directed by Fay Ann Lee- March 19 (NYC)
• Chloe - March 26
• The Mighty Macs - March
• After.Life, directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo- April 9
• Please Give, directed by Nicole Holofcener- April 23
• Sita Sings the Blues, directed by Nina Paley- April 23 (LA)
• The Backup Plan - April 23
• Mother and Child- May 7
• Letters to Juliet- May 14
• Just Wright- Queen Latifah, directed by Sanaa Hamri- May 14
• Sex and the City 2- May 28
• Finding Bliss, written and directed by Julie Davis - May
• Le Refuge- spring
• Princess Kaiulani - spring
• My Year Without Sex, directed by Sarah Watts- spring
• Eclipse, Twilight Part 3- June 30
• I am Love- Tilda Swinton - June
• The Kids Are All Right- Annette Bening, Julianne Moore directed by Lisa Cholodenko- June
• Salt - July 23
• Morning Glory- July 23
• Eat, Pray, Love- August 13
• Making Plans for Lena- Summer
• You Again -September 24
• Secretariat- October 8
• Betty Anne Waters - fall
• How Do You Know- December 17
• Life as We Know It - December 17

• Harold and Phyllis directed by Cindy Kleine (NYC)
• Sweetgrass, directed by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (doc)
• 35 Shots of Rum, directed by Claire Denis
• The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (doc)

• Dancing Across Borders, directed by Anne Bass- March 26 (doc)
• Bluebeard, directed by Catherine Breillat
• The Greatest, directed by Shana Festen - April 2 (NY/LA)
• Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, directed by Connie Field - April 14 (doc)
• Handsome Harry, directed by Bette Gordon
• Behind the Burly Q, directed by Leslie Zemekis - May (doc)
• Going the Distance - Drew Barrymore, directed by Nanette Burstein- October 8
• The Beaver- Jodie Foster
• Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel directed by Brigitte Berman

• The City of Your Final Destination written by Ruth Jhabvala - opens April 16

• Accidents Happen
• Agora
• Ashes to Ashes- Goldie Hawn
• Cedar Rapids- Sigourney Weaver
• The Countess, directed by Julie Delpy
• Cracks, directed by Jordan Scott
• The Debt- Helen Mirren
• The Black Swan- Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis
• Fair Game
• Fireflies in the Garden
• It's a Wonderful Afterlife- Sally Hawkins, directed by Gurinder Chadha
• Last Night, directed by Massy Tadjedin
• London River
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits- Natalie Portman
• Love Ranch
• The Milk of Sorrow, directed by Claudia Llosa
• Miral- Hiam Abbas
• My Own Love Song- Renee Zellweger
• Niloofar, directed by Sabine El Gemayel
• The Rabbit Hole- Nicole Kidman
• The Rebound
• Somewhere, directed by Sophia Coppola
• The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor
• We Want Sex
• Within the Whirlwind- Emily Watson, directed by Marleen Gorris

• 2 Days in NY written and directed by Julie Delpy
• Albert Nobbs- Glenn Close (shoots in July)
• Au Pairs- written by Alexa Junge
• A Woman of No Importance
• Alive & Kicking- produced by Mia Hamm
• The Beautiful and the Damned- starring Keira Knightley
• Beautiful Girl
• Best Buds- Natalie Portman
• Bobbie Sue- starring Cameron Diaz
• Bridget Jones' Diary- The Edge of Reason- Renee Zellweger
• Butter
• Callas
• Cantinflas written and directed by Gabriela Tagliavini
• Castro's Daughter
• Celeste and Jesse Forever- Rashida Jones
• Ceremony- Uma Thurman
• Class Act- starring Halle Berry
• Cloudburst- Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis
• Dark Tide- Halle Berry (written by Amy Sorlie)
• The Danish Girl- Nicole Kidman
• Daughter of the Queen of Sheeba-Amy Adams
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World- starring Meryl Streep
• Earthbound, directed by Nicole Kassell
• Enchanted 2, directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Jessie Nelson
• Face Value
• Five Men Who Broke My Heart- adapted by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
• Florence of Arabia- Charlize Theron
• Flying Lessons- Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace
• French Women Don't Get Fat
• Fright Night- written by Marti Noxon
• Girl Soldier- Uma Thurman
• Girltrash: All Night Long, directed by Alexandra Martinze Kondrake, written by Angela Robinson- filming
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• The Goree Girls - Jennifer Aniston
• Hannah- Saoirse Ronan (filming)
• Heaven & Earth, directed by Marleen Gorris- starring Natasha McElhone
• Honey Pot
• How to Get Divorced by 30- written by Sascha Rothchild
• If I Stay, directed by Catherine Hardwicke
• If I Were You, written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin- starring Marcia Gay Harden
• Invasion of Privacy
• Jack and Diane (filming)
• Jane Eyre- written by Moira Buffini
• Life Coach- Isla Fisher
• Little Bee- Nicole Kidman
• Lost in Austen
• Luna-Rachel Weisz
• Lunch Lady- Amy Poehler
• Mame- Tilda Swinton
• Monte Carlo- written by Maria Maggenti
• Morning Glory
• Ms. Faux Pas
• Muktar Mai biopic
• My Fair Lady- Keira Knightley, written by Emma Thompson
• My Mother The Cheerleader- Julia Roberts
• My Name is Jody Williams
• My Ten Best Days- Amy Adams
• The No Game - Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden, directed by Sherry Horman
• Never Let Me Go (filming)
• Nomads- Lucy Liu (filming)
• One for the Money- Katherine Heigl, written by Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith and Liz Brixius
• Pharm Girl- Reese Witherspoon
• Pride and Prejudice and the Zombies- Natalie Portman
• Pumas- Jennifer Aniston
• Queen Kristina- Sarah Polley, directed by Mika Kaurismaki
• Satisfaction- Sharon Stone, Carice Van Houten, directed by Anya Camilleri
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World- Lorene Scaferia
• Scarpetta Franchise
• The Seagull- Kristin Scott Thomas, Carey Mulligan
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers- Isabella Rossellini
• Someday My Price Will Come- Isla Fisher, written by Audrey Wells
• Something Borrowed- Ginnifer Goodwin
• The Space Between- Melissa Leo
• Sucker Punch- Carla Gugino
• Sweet Lorraine- Tatum O'Neal
• Tamara Drewe- Gemma Arterton
• Testament of Youth
• Three Days in Dublin, directed by Beth Lauren
• The Tourist- Angelina Jolie
• We Need to Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay
• The Whistleblower
• The Undomestic Goddess- written by Aline Brosh McKenna
• Untitled Female Road comedy- written by Annine Mumolo
• Untitled Louise Thaden Aviation Film
• Up and Running: The Jami Goldman Story, written by Jami Goldman and Andrea Cagan
• Vamps - Alicia Silverstone, written and directed by Amy Heckerling
• Water for Elephants- Reese Witherspoon
• We Bought a Zoo- written by Aline Brosh McKenna
• What Alice Forgot- written by Katherine Fugate
• Who is Doris Payne?- Halle Berry
• Winnie- Jennifer Hudson
• Words
• Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold- written by Olivia Hetreed

• The Convincer, written by Jill Sprecher and Karen Sprecher, directed by Jill Sprecher.
• One Day- Lone Scherfig
• Take This Waltz- directed by Sarah Polley
• We- directed by Madonna

• The Big C- Laura Linney - Showtime
• Covert Affairs- Piper Perabo- USA
• Rizzoli & Isles- Angie Harmon. Writer: Janet Tamaro- TNT

• Betwixt- written by Elizabeth Chandler- CW
• Cutthroat (centers on a single mother -Roselyn Sanchez- who keeps up appearances in Beverly Hills by secretly running a drug cartel.) Written by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters. ABC
• Hot in Cleveland - (Three fortysomething female friends from L.A. wind up stuck in Cleveland and decide to stay there when they realize the locals consider them.)
• Huge - (Two overweight teens find friendship at a wellness summer camp. Based on the book by Sasha Paley.) Written by Winnie Holzman and Savannah Dooley - ABC Family
• In Security (Two sisters Constance Zimmer and Kat Foster head up a private-security team protecting the super elite while dealing with personal and family issues.) TBS
• La Femme Nikita- Maggie Oh. CW
• Open Books- Laura Benanti. Writer: Gail Lerner. CBS
• Reagan's Law - Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green. (multigenerational show revolving around a family of cops in New York.) CBS
• Untitled Richard Hatem (centers on a beautiful female detective -- Katee Sackhoff -- who teams with a disgraced ex-cop to solve crimes and untangle the conspiracy that sent him underground.
• Untitled Wyoming Project- Amy Sherman Palladino- CW
• Untitled medical drama - Roaming medical team that travels the U.S. helping those who are less fortunate get through life-or-death medical crises. Written by Hannah Shakespeare. CBS
• Wright vs. Wrong (Set in Washington DC and centers on a sexy, female conservative pundit and her staff.) Written by Stephanie Weir. ABC

• Body of Evidence- show revolves around female medical examiner- ABC
• Charlie's Angels (Three beautiful private detectives work for a mysterious playboy called "Charlie") - ABC
• Confessions of a Backup Dancer (a woman who scores a gig as a backup dancer for a major pop star) Ilene Chaiken writer/executive producer - CW
• Daylight Robbery (a group of four housewives, in need of money, turn to a life of crime) Written by Karyn Usher- FOX
• Enlightened- starring Laura Dern- HBO
• Facing Kate- starring Sarah Sahai- A&E
• Ghost World (A male ghost helps an ambitious female homicide detective in New York City crack her cases in the hopes of finding clues to his own life and death.) - ABC
• HMS (A group of bright students attend Harvard Medical School.) Writer: Amy Holden Jones - CW glamorous.) Writer: Suzanne Martin - TV Land
• Jane and Dick (Set in an all-female law firm, a woman is about to inherit her father's firm and get married when a boyfriend from her teenage years suddenly steps back into her life.) Writers: Michael Reisz, Jennifer Weiner - ABC
• The March Sisters (“Little Women” meets “Sex and the City,” about working-class siblings who try to make it on Park Avenue) Writer: Jill Gordon - CW
• Mouthpiece- Marlee Matlin. Creator: Carol Leifer- SHO
• Nashville (a drama that revolves around a young female singer destined for stardom — and a male songwriter whose career isn’t as certain) - CW
• Off the Map- medical show from Shonda Rhimes, written by Jenna Bans- ABC
• Police Surgeon Centers on a female cop who is also a surgeon - ABC
• The Quickening- starring Radha Mitchell- A&E
• You and Me and He. Creator: Carol Leifer - CBS
• Pretty Little Liars. Writer: Marlene King- ABC Family
• Spy School for Girls (revolves around female spy trainees at a CIA facility) - CW
• Sunshine Cleaning. Writer: Megan Holley- Showtime
• Three Sisters (Three very different men marry three sisters who are extremely close.) - CBS
• Tilda- (Centers on a powerful female online showbiz blogger with a no-holds-barred style.) Written by Cynthia Mort. HBO
• Untitled Amy Sherman Palladino- HBO
• Untitled Cutler Comedy (Set in Texas, a psychologist raises two daughters, one of whom begins imitating her father and giving life advice to other kids in her school.) Written by Emily Cutler. Nickelodeon
• Untitled drama from Richard Hatem- Drama focuses on a female detective who joins forces with a fugitive cop- ABC
• Untitled Kirstie Alley Reality Show- A&E
• Untitled Kushell Comedy (the wife of a U.S. Congressman inherits her husband's seat when he dies unexpectedly in the middle of his term.) Bob Kushell- CBS
• Untitled drama based on the life of socialite Sloan Barnett and set in Manhattan’s Early Case Assessment Bureau - Writer: Julie Martin - CW
• Untitled Walch Series (An unconventional female psychologist embeds herself within the Dallas Police Department.) Writer: Gay Walch - Lifetime
• Unitled Shana Goldberg-Meehan (centers on two sisters involved in very different romantic situations. One isn't married but has a healthy, long-term relationship; the other is forced to marry her new beau when she gets pregnant.) Writer: Shana Goldberg-Meehan- ABC
• Untitled Wechsler Series (Centers on a team of victim witness advocates.) Writer: Pam Wechsler
• Untitled Wilson Project (A woman leaves her seemingly perfect marriage and children in Santa Monica for the underbelly of L.A., where she indulges her secret fantasies and desires) Writer: Erin Cressida Wilson - HBO