News, Television, Women Writers
Amazon announced today five new pilots that it plans to debut at the end of the month. Though the two dramas and three comedies have little in common, they do share one similarity — they’re...
Documentary, News, Videos, Women Directors
Australian documentarian Genevieve Bailey found herself dispirited working for a newspaper as a college student, reading bad news day after day. She worried especially about how that bad news would...
Oscar winner Geena Davis has joined Grey’s Anatomy for its 11th season. Davis’ last series television appearance was as the President in Commander in Chief. Davis will reportedly enjoy a...
News, Trailers, Videos
Since the end of Twilight, Kristen Stewart has returned to her indie roots for the next chapter of her career. That seems like a good move for her, since her best notices were always in...
Features, Weekly Update
Films About Women Opening The Maid’s Room In this examination of morality, racism, and privilege, Drina (Paula Garces), a young Colombian immigrant, accepts a position as maid to the wealthy...
Films, Videos
Angelfire is a superheroine who knows her worth. And that worth? The center spotlight in a movie all about her — not as a sidekick, a recurring pair of boobs, or a sacrificial love interest to...
News, Women Writers
John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight isn’t like much else on TV — because it’s better than most things on TV. In the wake of his critical and viral success, Oliver revealed that he...
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Interviews, News
Nakedlimbs, tangled, dancing; gaping mouths; and sightless eyes — much of Iranianartist Bahman Mohassess’ work strikes the first-time viewer alternately as acelebration of the human...
News
Ever wonder what kind of moms the Heathers might have grown up to be? Australian writer Liane Moriarty’s bestselling, critically acclaimed comic novel Big Little Lies seems to imagine precisely...
Features, News, Women Directors
This year the news has been bad for UK female film directors. Statistics have revealed, in article after article, the depressingly low numbers of women directing feature films. I look at the slates...
Features, News, Television
There is an awesome profile in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter on Jenji Kohan, the creator and showrunner of Orange is the New Black. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say...
Things are supposed to be easier for female narrative directors in the indie world, but that just often isn’t the case. Peter Knegt published a list of the 25 top-earning indie productions of the...
A thirteen-year-old girl becomes the center of world attention when she’s caught on tape able to miracle-heal in novelist Jason Mott’s The Wonder of All Things. Though the book won’t be...
A new study spearheaded by Dr. Stacy L. Smith at USC’s Annenberg School confirms what we already know: Hollywood sucks at portraying racial diversity. But here’s a surprise: It doesn’t suck...
Carrie Brownstein has been tapped to posthumously complete one of Nora Ephron’s last projects, a big-screen adaptation of the British miniseries Lost in Austen. The proposed film, which centers on...
News, Women Directors
Katharine Hepburn starred in some of the best films Hollywood has ever made, but the film industry has thus far only made her an accessory in stories about men, namely those of producer David O....
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the third female and first black president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has been elected for a second year-long term. Boone Isaacs received that vote of...
A new interview with Christina Hendricks in The Guardian is making the rounds because of the (schadenfreude-tastic) revelation that the actress was dropped by her agency when she signed up to play...
Writer-director Jennifer Lee has finally announced her first post-Frozen project: an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved sci-fi children’s classic A Wrinkle in Time for Disney. At this...
News, Theater
After making entertainment history as television’s youngest-ever talk-show host, 20-year-old Keke Palmer will set another record as Broadway’s first black Cinderella in Rodgers and...
Dear Amy Pascal, I read the exciting news yesterday that your studio, Sony, will be making a female superhero movie set in the Spider-Man universe. This is great news for those of us who have been...
Awards, Features, News
What’s the point of winning your industry’s highest honor if it doesn’t open up any more opportunities to succeed? That’s the sad but inevitable response to a new interview with Octavia...
News, Television
Debt is as much a mainstay of modern American life as potable drinking water or people acting like buffoons on reality TV. Ellen Pompeo is looking to dramatize our indebted condition with a new...
Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig is reportedly in talks to helm Ghostbusters 3, currently planned as a female reboot of the franchise, which is much to the chagrin of Mike Fleming at...
Films, News
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige knows there’s a groundswell of support for a superheroine movie. He also knows that films with female protagonists can make boatloads of money. And he most...
Documentary, News, Women Directors
UK’s Sight and Sound magazine published a “Greatest Documentaries of All Time” list last week to accompany their famed catalog of the “Greatest Films Ever.” The top 50...
Former Today and The View host Meredith Vieira will headline her own daytime series starting September 8. The afternoon syndicated show will be a mix of interviews, giveaways, humor, and social...
Films About Women Opening Around the Block — Written and Directed by Sarah Spillane Writer-director Sarah Spillane explores Australian racism today in Around the Block, a drama about an...
News, Women Producers
Though the Twilight film series wrapped up in 2012, Stephenie Meyer continues to flex her producing muscles in Hollywood. Up next for the YA author is an adaptaion of Lois Duncan’s 1974...
Features, Films, News
The summer blockbuster movie season may be winding to an end, but the multiplexes offer a refreshingly diverse selection of films by and about women for August. The month blasts off (literally) with...
News, Television, Videos, Women Writers
Sometime during Scandal’s feverish sophomore season, Shonda Rhimes became more than a brand — she became a powerhouse. Sure, she was already a known commodity from the wildly popular...
Documentary, Festivals, Interviews, News
“People expect me to have a better future than Ido. I don’t know what to do anymore.” So declares a twelve-year-old boy lessthan five minutes into this film, and at once we are ruthlessly...
News, Videos
I Love Lucy debuted over 60 years ago, and yet there are still so few movies and TV shows about mixed-race families, especially from a female POV. Writer-director Nicole Gomez Fisher helps fill in...
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