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Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donna Tartt Among Baileys Contenders
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the most prestigious award dedicated to recognizing literary works by female authors, has announced its shortlist. Three of the novels to make the cut are...
Ellen Burstyn Retrospective to Play at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Screen legend Ellen Burstyn will receive a nine-film career retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (April 30-May 6). She will make an in-person appearance on May 3 after a screening of...
Trailer Watch: Michelle Monaghan Returns Home After Afghanistan in Fort Bliss
Michelle Monaghan (True Detective, Source Code) takes on the leading writer-director Claudia Myers’ Fort Bliss, a career-versus-family drama about an Army medic who prefers the landmine-ridden...
Female Film Industry Heavyweights Support Fledgling Female Directors
Jane Campion, Helen Mirren, and Sienna Miller are among the participants of a wonderful new initiative to highlight the next generation of female filmmakers. The London-based fashion and culture...
Manohla Dargis on the Perks of Being a Male Director
Film critic Manohla Dargis continues her efforts to lay bare studio filmmaking’s institutional sexism. In her review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, published last week, she wrote in The...
Scarlett Johansson is a Box-Office Superheroine
Scarlett Johansson kicked off the summer-movie season, which seems to begin earlier and earlier every year, on a high note this past weekend. Captain America: The Winter Soldier broke April records...
Women and Hollywood on the Road in London and Stockholm
Women and Hollywood (meaning me) is about to embark to Europe for several public appearances that I wanted to make sure any of our readers in those countries know about. If you are at any of these...
Trailer Watch: Gia Coppola Makes Her Directorial Debut with Palo Alto
Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola and niece of Sofia Coppola, makes her directorial debut with Palo Alto, a loose adaptation of James Franco’s short-story collection. Franco...
Dear Will Ferrell: Depicting Sexism Isn’t Enough
As the buffoonish Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell made the world laugh at sexist pigs who have trouble accepting the fact that women are pretty good at lots of things, including the arduous task of...
Weekly Update for April 4: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Frankie and Alice — Co-Written by Cheryl Edwards, Mary King, Anna Waterhouse Frankie and Alice is inspired by the remarkable true story of “Frankie” (Halle...
Dorothy Arzner to Receive Career Retrospective
Here’s the good news: Pioneering director Dorothy Arzner (1897–1979) — was one of the first woman directors to have a career in Hollywood making films. She was the first female member of...
Trailer Watch: Scarlett Johnasson Has Superpowers in Lucy
Lucy is the film we’ve been waiting for. At the very least, it certainly looks like the film we’ve been waiting for, an action flick about a badass with superpowers with an original premise,...
Opera America Announces Eight Winners of Women Composers Competition
Any Women and Hollywood readers who wade into the gender politics of the classical music world will find the same types of issues as the movie business. Women are underrepresented in the prestigious...
Special Report: Women Directors at the Box Office in March 2014
A much-needed profileof Anita Hill is one of the top-grossing films directed by women in March, withthe highest monthly gross of a female-directed documentary so far this year. Anita has made...
Trailer Watch: Toni Collette Searches for a Lost Love in Lucky Them
After seeing her in a string of mom roles for the past few years, it’s nice to see Toni Collette out and about again. In director Megan Griffiths’ Lucky Them, Collette plays a veteran rock...
Thea Sharrock to Make Her Feature Directorial Debut
Acclaimed theater and TV director Thea Sharrock has signed on to adapt Jojo Moyes’ best-selling novel Me Before You for the big screen. The production will mark Sharrock’s feature directing...
MMA Fighter and Action Star Gina Carano on In the Blood and What Makes a Good Heroine
In the Blood is a love story — a bullet-riddled, blood-soaked love story. When Ava’s (Gina Carano) husband (Cam Gigandet, Twilight) goes missing on theirhoneymoon in the Caribbean, she...
Orange is the New Black, Scandal, Borgen Among Peabody Winners
The Peabody Awards have named a record 46 winners this year in their ongoing efforts to recognizing “stories that matter.” Twenty of the awardees (43%) — which range from journalism to...
Claire Danes, Iman, Idina Menzel Among Variety’s Power of Women
Variety will honor Claire Danes, Nancy Dubuc, Iman, Idina Menzel, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Susan Sarandon for their humanitarian efforts at the inaugural Power of Women luncheon in New York. Each...
The Continuing Case for Having More Women in Film
Yesterday, the numbers crunchers at fivethirtyeight.com, the guys and gals who have predicted elections, took a crack at the conundrum of women, movies and money. Not surprisingly, they found what...
JK Rowling to Pen Harry Potter Spinoff Trilogy
J.K. Rowling may have two post-Potter novels under her belt, but she isn’t yet done with her most famous creation. Rowling will make her screenwriting debut by adapting Fantastic Beasts and Where...
Cate Blanchett, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne Honored by Women in Film
Cate Blanchett, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne, Eva Longoria, and Frozen director Jennifer Lee are the five honorees of this year’s Crystal + Lucy Awards. Organized by Women in Film — Los...
April 2014 Film Preview
The Big Dipper isn’t the only constellation of stars you’ll see this April — there’s a handful of actress-led vehicles on offer this coming month. By far the biggest is The Other Woman,...