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Study: Female Movie Stars’ Paychecks Decrease Rapidly After Age 34

On the hit show New Girl, Zooey Deschanel’s character Jess is finally embarking on responsible adulthood. In real life, though, the perpetually youthful Deschanel apparently stands at the...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for January 31: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening Somewhere Slow “Overt femininity is sometimes just a wall to keep outsiders from peering in,” I wrote in my Los Angeles Times review. “That’s certainly the case...

Documentary, Festivals, Women Directors

SXSW Festival Lineup Features 20 Features from Women Directors

Of the 115 features that will play at the South by Southwest Festival in March 7–15, women filmmakers will be represented in 20, or about 17%, of them. Two of the eight films competing for the...

Features, News, Television

TV: Why Parenthood Is One of Television’s Best Shows About Marriage

As television’s revival hasreinvigorated the water-cooler discussion, many of the moments viewers have to talk about with someone have come fromcable. Hannah Horvath spends a sexy weekend with a...

News

The Monuments Men Erases Women from History

On Wednesday, the New York Times published a necessary correction to the upcoming movie The Monuments Men, a goofy historical caper about a team of actual art scholars and curators whose Sisyphean...

News, Television

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks Reunite — as Director and Producer

Few actresses are the target of as many comeback rumors as Meg Ryan. After 2003’s In the Cut, the Jane Campion thriller she had hoped would be her reinvention, Ryan disappeared into quickly...

Documentary, Features, Films, News

Women and Hollywood February 2014 Film Preview

There’s only a smattering of films directed, written, and about women on offer this upcoming month, but there’s a few gems in the mix, as well as a great deal of variety in quality and...

News, Television

TV: Tea Leoni Cast as Star of Madam Secretary

Earlier this week, we reported that Homeland writer Barbara Hall was developing a political drama for CBS called Madam Secretary that would center on an “maverick” Secretary of State. The...

News

TV: Ellen DeGeneres’ Lesbian Sitcom, Nahnatchka Khan’s Asian Am Series, & More Pilot News

Good news continues to trickle in about the networks’ fall pilot season. In addition to new shows from Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Casey Wilson and June Raphael, we can now look forward to four...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: The Fault in Our Stars

Is there a way to tell a romance involving a teenage cancer patient that isn’t cheesy, exploitative, or politically regressive? Author John Green certainly tried to find a way with his...

Features, News

The Big O: Which of the 3 Best-Picture Frontrunners Is Female-Friendliest?

Hear that “ouch”? It’s the sound of frustrated pundits pulling their hair as they attempt to divine the outcome of the Oscars’ best-picture race this year. Those of us who put our reps on...

Documentary, Festivals, News, Videos

Watch the Sundance Spotlight on Women Directors Panel

Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood founder, Anne Thompson moderated a women’s director panel at Sundance, and a video of the discussion was released earlier this week by SundanceNOW’s Doc Club....

Documentary, Festivals, News

Stephanie Soechtig’s Sundance Doc Fed Up Sold

Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill was the nonfiction jury favorite at this year’s Sundance, but the documentary that’s arguably received the most Park City attention is...

Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Women Directors: Meet Kate Barker-Froyland

Kate Barker-Froyland is the writer and director of Song One, her first feature film. Her short film “Match” screened at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New...

News, Television

TV: Margaret Cho Joins Tina Fey’s Women’s College Comedy

Tina Fey’s 30 Rock has only been off the air for a year, but it feels like a lot longer. TV has never been better, and yet nothing’s been able to replace the Lemon-sized hole 30 Rock’s...

News

Elizabeth Banks to Direct Pitch Perfect 2

Two weeks ago, we applauded Elizabeth Banks, Lead Comedic Actress. Now we celebrate Elizabeth Banks, Feature Filmmaker. The Hollywood Reporter revealed yesterday that Banks will make her...

News

TV: More Female Politicos to Run the Small Screen

Call it the Scandal effect. Or the Homeland effect. Or the Veep effect. Or the Parks and Recreation effect. There’s no denying that “women leaders in government” is a TV trend right now....

News, Women Directors

Donna Langley Becomes Second Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood

On Sunday, The New York Times published a great profile of Donna Langley, the Chairwoman of Universal Pictures. The article coincided with the announcement that Langley’s contract at NBCUniversal...

News

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In to Become Movie

Three or four times a year (if that much), Hollywood seems to remember that women exist. Thus we get the occasional film that caters to female filmgoers, nearly always starring white actresses: the...

Festivals, News, Theater, Women Writers

DC Theaters to Launch Festival Showcasing Women Playwrights

The New York Times reports that 44 theater companies in Washington, DC, have joined forces to launch the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. The inaugural event will take place over eight weeks...

Awards, Documentary, Festivals, News

Women Win Nearly a Third of Sundance Awards

The 2014 Sundance Film Festival came to a close yesterday, culminating in a two-hour awards ceremony hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. Women directors, editors, cinematographers, and...

Awards, News

Shonda Rhimes “Honored” and “Pissed Off” at DGA Awards

Nary a week goes by at Women and Hollywood when we don’t devote a post to Shonda Rhimes. That’s because the Scandal showrunner is one of the few industry insiders with the courage and the...

News, Videos

Trailer Watch: Angelina Jolie in New Maleficent Spot

“There is evil in this world. Hatred. Revenge,” Maleficent declares in the new Maleficent trailer. Then she giggles — not girlishly or coquettishly, but with ironic bemusement, like...

Music, Videos

Monday Morning Pick You Up: Carole King and Sara Bareilles Duet at the Grammys

To help get your work week off on the right foot, check out this inspirational performance from rock music legend (and recipient of the 2014 Music Cares honor) Carole King and the amazingly talented...

News, Women Writers

Hollywood Feminists Fire Back at Mike Huckabee’s “Gender Victim” Comments

Who the hell knows what Mike Huckabee meant when he claimed that Republicans want to “empower [women] to be something other than victims of their gender” at a Republican National Committee...

News

Lexi Alexander To Appear at Athena Film Festival to Talk About “That Blog Post”

For those of you who follow this issue and who read Women and Hollywood, a blog post from director Lexi Alexander caused a viral sensation last week. Her post An Oscar-Nominated Director Gets Real...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for January 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening Run and Jump — Directed by Steph Green and Written by Ailbhe Keogan Oscar-nominated director Steph Green’s feature debut is the first great film of 2014....

Interviews, News, Women Directors

Interview: Run and Jump Director Steph Green on Families in Flux and Discovering Will Forte’s Dramatic Side

The January doldrums are over. The first great movie of 2014 has arrived: Oscar-nominated director Steph Green’s Run and Jump, her feature debut. Run and Jump centers on an Irish woman named...

Features, News, Television

TV: The Staying Power of Veronica Mars

In the past year, Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas’ procedural about a high-school girl (Kristen Bell) who became a private investigator, has been back in the news cycle repeatedly. That’s not...

Festivals, News

Producer Alix Madigan’s Sundance Keynote: Instability of Indie Film is Worth the Risk

Alix Madigan has produced some great (female-centric) films: the Anna Faris stoner vehicle Smiley Face, Debra Granik’s Jennifer Lawrence-launcher Winter’s Bone, and Lynn Shelton’s new comedy...

Documentary, Festivals, Interviews, News

Slamdance Women Directors: Meet Nailah Jefferson

Born and raised in New Orleans, Nailah Jefferson created the production company Perspective Pictures in March 2010 to tell stories that shed light on little known issues. A month later, the BP oil...

Documentary, Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Woman Directors: Meet Tracy Droz Tragos

Tracy Droz Tragos won an Emmy Award for her first documentary, Be Good, Smile Pretty, which aired on PBS’s Independent Lens and chronicled her journey to know her father, who was killed in...

Festivals, News

Five More Women-Directed Films Sold at Sundance

Some deals for women directors coming out of Sundance. Sony Pictures Classics is the new home of Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz’s Land Ho! In her interview with Women and Hollywood, Stephens...

News, Videos

Disney Helps More Girls See Themselves Onscreen with Multilingual “Let It Go” Video

There’s a small but crucial scene in Frozen that’s merits some discussion. It occurs early in the film during Anna’s song “For the First Time in Forever,” when she imagines she might meet...

News, Videos

Mark Ruffalo Defends Abortion on Roe v. Wade Anniversary

In commemoration of yesterday’s 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion across the United States, Mark Ruffalo has released a video with the Center for Reproductive...

Awards, Features, News

The Big O: The Truth Behind Emma Thompson and Oscar Isaac’s Oscar Snubs? Lack of Tragedy

When this year’s Oscar nominations were announced, there were a few surprising omissions on the ballot, especially in the acting categories. You wouldthink, for instance, that the 6,000 or so...

News, Television

TV: Rashida Jones Leaves Pawnee for Tribeca

When Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones announced last year that she’d be leaving America’s most civic-minded sitcom, she had her choice of projects to choose from. Deadline reports that,...

Features, Festivals, Women Directors

Infographic: Women in Filmmaking at Sundance

Though the 2014 lineup at the Sundance was disappointingly low on women directors, the festival remains committed to advancing the ranks of women directors in the industry. Two years ago, Sundance...

Features, Festivals, News, Women Directors

Capturing Truth through Fiction in South Africa

The story of how I found my way to film is a funny one. I was living in Paris, and I had no money. I was working as a waitress and a babysitter, pretty much doing everything I could to feed myself....

Festivals, Interviews

Sundance Women Directors: Meet Sydney Freeland

Drunktown’s Finest is Sydney Freeland’s feature film debut and her response to a news story that characterized her hometown of Gallup, New Mexico, as “Drunktown, USA.” She has worked for a...

News

TV: Six More Makers Docs to Air on PBS This Summer

PBS will air six documentaries about women’s progress in the divergent fields of war, space, comedy, business, Hollywood, and politics starting in June. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Rachel Grady...

Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Women Directors: Meet Geetu Mohandas

Geetu Mohandas is a filmmaker based in India. In 2009, along with her director/cinematographer husband Rajeev Ravi, she formed Unplugged, which produced her first short fiction film, “Kelkkunnundo...

Documentary, News, Videos

Trailer Watch: Freida Mock’s Anita

“Once I got subpoena’d, I knew what I had to do. I’m gonna tell what happened to me.” Directed by Oscar nominee Freida Mock, Anita focuses on the Clarence Thomas hearings, particularly the...

Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Women Directors: Meet Rose McGowan

Actress-turned-director Rose McGowan (Grindhouse, TV’s Charmed) was born in Italy and raised on a steady diet of pasta, European cinema, and classic films. Along with her cinephile father, she...

Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Women Producers: Meet Mel Eslyn

The One I Love producer Mel Eslyn began working on films and music videos in the Midwest in her teens, working her way up through the set hierarchies. Years later, she relocated to Seattle,...

Festivals, News

Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child Sold at Sundance

Just a couple of days after it acquired Lynn Shelton’s Laggies, A24 (which has a good track record for releasing women directed films- last year they released Sally Potter and Sofia Coppola) has...

News

TV: Amy Poehler Signs Three-Year NBC Deal and Hires Natasha Lyonne for Comedy Pilot

Amy Poehler is flexing her producer’s muscles. We announced earlier this year that the Parks and Rec star was producing Broad City, a Comedy Central vehicle for comediennes Ilana Glazer and Abbi...

Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Women Producers: Meet Katie Stern

Listen Up Philip producer Katie Stern grew up in New York City. At a young age, she started making movies with her older brother, many of which have appeared on public access television. She has...

Festivals, Interviews, News

Sundance Women Directors: Meet Madeleine Olnek

Madeleine Olnek is a writer and director who honed her skills in New York venues with more than 20 produced plays, all comedies. Her Sundance Film Festival shorts “Countertransference” (2009)...

Awards, News

Pic of the Day: Emma Thompson Continues Her Campaign Against Heels

It hasn’t been Emma Thompson’s year. Despite being feted by Meryl Streep early this awards season for her performance in Saving Mr. Banks, Thompson was snubbed for an Oscar nomination and has...

Festivals, News

Sundance’s Women in Film Event Calls Out Hollywood Sexism, Awards $32k in Grants

There was apparently one running theme at the eighth Women in Film panel hosted by the Sundance Film Festival: entrenched industry sexism. Six women directors and producers, representing five...

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