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Interviews, News, Women Writers

A Woman You Should Know: Margaret Nagle — Developer of the Red Band Society and the Writer of The Good Lie

Margaret Nagle was one of the first women in met in Hollywood who told me really what it was like to be a working woman in Hollywood. She told me about unbelievable (which I totally believed)...

Features, Research

Guest Post: Only 26% of UK Film Crews Are Female — Which is Better than in the US

Earlier this year, I published a report into what percentage of crews on the top-grossing US films of the past 20 years are women. I found that, on average, women made up only 23% of a typical film...

News, Theater

Anna D. Shapiro Takes Over as Steppenwolf Artistic Director from Martha Lavey

Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company will pass the torch from one female artistic director to another next year when Anna D. Shapiro takes over the position that Martha Lavey has occupied for two...

News

Winners of Women Composers Competition Announced

The League of American Orchestras and EarShot have named Julia Adolphe and Melody Eotvos the winners of a new program designed to promote women composers. Adolphe and Eotvos will each be awarded...

News, Videos

Watch: First Look at ‘Inside Out,’ Pixar’s First Girl-Centric Movie After ‘Brave’

It took Pixar nearly two decades to make a movie with a female protagonist, but fortunately the studio seems to have gotten the memo that girls and women watch adorable animated adventures too....

Festivals, Women Directors

Mill Valley Film Fest to Showcase 35 Women-Directed Films, Celebrate Elle Fanning and Laura Dern

Lynn Shelton’s Laggies, Doris Dorrie’s Que Caramba Es La Vida, and Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz’s Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem are among the nearly three dozen women-directed films...

News

Sherry Lansing Biography Scheduled for 2016 Release

Sherry Lansing, the first female head of a major film studio, will be the subject of a new biography to be penned by Hollywood Reporter editor Stephen Galloway. The as-yet-untitled book will be...

Features, News

Sunday Night Sex Talks: Turning Weekend Brunch with the Girls into a Monthly Storytelling Experience

Six months into my life in Los Angeles, I realized that I did nothave enough female friends. I was living with two wonderful gay men in West Hollywood, dating a smart and sweet television...

News, Television

‘Bad Judge’ Review: I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This

I’m going to use the word bad a lot in this post, and I already feel bad about it. As must actress Kate Walsh, who took on a seemingly interesting lead role in Bad Judge, the new NBC comedy about...

News

Quvenzhané Wallis Books New Gig in Adaptation of Bestseller ‘Counting by 7s’

Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis has signed on for The Mazur/Kaplan Company and Olympus Pictures’ adaptation of Counting by 7s, based on Holly Goldberg Sloan’s bestselling novel. Wallis will...

News, Theater

Helen Mirren to Reprise Her Role as Elizabeth II on Broadway

Helen Mirren will soon reprise the role that made her an Oscar winner, that of Queen Elizabeth II, on Broadway. Here’s the twist: Mirren won’t be starring in a stage adaptation of The Queen,...

News, Women Directors

New ‘Twilight’ Shorts Directed by Women to Appear on Facebook

Great news for Twilight fans — and even better news for aspiring women filmmakers: Lionsgate, the studio behind the film series, and Stephenie Meyer, who, of course, wrote the Twilight novels,...

Awards, Features, News

The Big O: If the Girl in ‘Gone Girl’ Provokes Debate, Oscar Noms Might Follow

Much of the suspense over Gone Girl, at least among the film journalists who were the first to witness David Fincher’s latest thriller at the New York Film Festival, has not revolved around any...

Features, News, Women Directors

‘Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason’ Is the Highest-Grossing Women-Directed European Film in the Last Decade

From my latest Forbes post on why there are still major issues with women-centric content in Europe, where there are more women directors than in the US. Sometimes I think that Europe is leading the...

Features, Films, News

October 2014 Film Preview

October may be the time of ghosts and ghouls, not that you’d know it from the many diverse film offerings made by and starring women this month. But we definitely start with one ghoul: the one in...

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