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Does Amazon Already Have a Female Creator Problem?

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

Trailer Watch: I Am Eleven is a Charming Look at Being Between Childhood and Adolescence

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...

News, Television, Women Writers

Geena Davis Checks Into Grey’s Anatomy

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

Trailer Watch: Kristen Stewart Heads to Guantanamo in Camp X-Ray

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

Weekly Update for August 8: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

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

Watch: Actual Superheroine Can’t Get a Movie Made About Her in Hollywood

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 Search for New Voices in Late Night

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...

Features, News

Happy Friday: Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks Attempts to Make It in the Modern Office

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Interviews, News

Director Mitra Farahani on Legendary Painter Bahman Mohassess and the Artist’s Plight in Iran

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

Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman Team Up to Tell Big Little Lies

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

Guest Post: One for the Girls: Women Directors Group Spreads to London

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

Jenji Kohan Talks Equal Pay and Being Told Men Are Funnier

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...

News, Women Writers

Only 2 of the 25 Top-Earning Indies This Year Directed by Women

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...

Features, News, Television

The Honourable Woman: Upending the Sexy Spy Drama

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Hunger Games Studio Lionsgate Options Another Potential Female-Led YA Blockbuster

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...

News

Study: Latina Women Most Likely to Be Naked On Screen

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...

News, Women Writers

Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein to Finish One of Nora Ephron’s Last Scripts

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 Biopic in the Works

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....

News

Cheryl Boone Isaacs Re-Elected as Academy President

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...

Features, News

Quote of the Day: Christina Hendricks: “There’s Sexual Harassment at Work Every Single Day” in Hollywood

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...

News

Frozen Director Jennifer Lee to Adapt A Wrinkle in Time

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

Keke Palmer to Become Broadway’s First Black Cinderella

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...

News, Women Directors

An Open Letter to Sony Chief Amy Pascal: Here’s Your Opportunity to Be a Leader for Women

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

Quote of the Day: Octavia Spencer on How Her Oscar Changed Nothing

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

Ellen Pompeo Developing Drama for ABC Family

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...

News

Paul Feig Rumored to Direct Female-Led Ghostbusters Reboot

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 Chief Says He Wants a Female-Led Superhero Movie… Just Not Right Now

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

Sight and Sound Publishes Top 50 Documentaries List

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...

News, Television

Meredith Vieira Returning to Daytime TV

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...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for August 1: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

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

Stephenie Meyer to Produce Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall

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

August 2014 Film Preview

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

Clear Your Thursday Nights for Shonda Rhimes

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

Sundance Award-Winning Rich Hill Director Tracy Droz Tragos on the Injustice of Rural Poverty and How Motherhood Can Open Doors to Documentarians

“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

Trailer Watch: Sleeping with the Fishes Captures La Vida Loca in a Latino-Jewish Family

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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