Awards, Videos
The Oscars have always been dominated by white men, but its demographic lopsidedness became a flashpoint of anger yesterday when this year’s nominations failed to include Selma director Ava...
Awards, News, Women Directors
Here are some thoughts from some people I reached out to earlier today about the Oscar nominations, in alphabetical order. Thelma Adams, Film Editor at ZEALnyc: First of all, I welcome more voices...
Awards, Features, News, Women Directors
We had a dream last fall: that two female directors, Ava DuVernay for Selma and Angelina Jolie for Unbroken, would compete in the Best Director category at the 87th Academy Awards. Considering that...
News, Television
Get your celebratin’ on, because Broad City has been renewed for a third season. The second season of Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s sketch-sitcom hybrid premiered just this week, but the...
I couldn’t sleep at all last night because I knew in the pit of my stomach exactly what was going to happen this morning. Based onthe wind and on the hatchet job against Selma, I knew that Ava...
Yesterday’s Directors Guild of America Awards coverage was dominated by one major (and painful) snub: that of Ava DuVernay for the entirely deserving Selma. But we should also talk about some of...
News, Trailers, Videos
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Our 2014 end-of-year coverage highlighted the good and the bad for women and Hollywood in 2014. As we usher in a new year, let’s focus on some of the exciting female-centric films that await us in...
Features, News
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News, Videos, Women Directors
Artists can’t get by on awards and adulation alone, so we’re thrilled that Patricia Arquette is using her post-Globes spotlight to bravely broach the topic of compensation. “It’s important...
News, Statistics
If Hollywood were graded on how well it excluded women directors from making films, it’d receive an A. The newest Celluloid Ceiling Report from Dr. Martha Lauzen at San Diego State finds that men...
Awards, News
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler set the theme for the 2015 Golden Globes in more ways than one last night. Perhaps it was Fey or Poehler’s gender-conscious jokes the two years before — or maybe it...
News, Women Writers
Ten days before the launch of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Park City’s first major deal has been struck. Fox Searchlight has bought Mistress America, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s...
News
Oscar-nominated teenage actress Hailee Steinfeld will join Jennifer Lawrence, Shailene Woodley, and Chloe Grace Moretz in laying claim to a popular YA adaptation of her own. Steinfeld will star as...
Features, Weekly Update
Films About Women Opening This Week Vessel (doc) — Directed by Diana Whitten Vessel begins with a young doctor who lived by the sea — and an unlikely idea. Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by...
Comedy, News, Television
Grammy-nominated comedienne Tig Notaro will appear in her first HBO special later this year. Notaro will record an all-new standup performance before a live audience in the coming months. A guest...
News, Women Directors
The Directors Guild of America has revealed the results of a five-year study examining the gender and ethnic diversity of first-time directors on scripted series. In the five-year span from the...
Features, News, Women Directors
From my latest Forbes post on how Ava DuVernay is making history by interpreting our shared past and defending Selma from its short-sighted critics: Whether we like it or not, there are different...
Features, News, Women Writers
On Wednesday, we revealed that women directed only 17 of last year’s top 250 grossing films — a depressing 6.8%. Fortunately, the number of female screenwriters who penned the scripts to...
Documentary, Features, News, Women Directors
After two hours of interviews, thecinematographer signals that the battery is running out and that we need tostop. Thank God. I have been interviewing my mother for what feels like aneternity now,...
Festivals, News, Women Directors
Prolific Spanish director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, Learning to Drive) will open the 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 5–15) with her latest film, Nobody Wants the Night. The...
Festivals, Trailers, Videos
When I found out that I was invited to take part in the Fox Global Director’s Initiative, I was in Beirut, on my way to the Bekaa Valley. The lab would commence in just seven days — by which...
Female directors accounted for only 17 of the top 250 grossing films of 2014 — a mere 6.8%. As paltry as this number is, it represents a minor improvement from 2013, when women comprised 6% of...
News, Television, Women Writers
ABC Family is expanding its appeal to women in their twenties by adding two single-cam comedies from female creators to its development slate. The cable network has ordered pilots from Awkward...
Rose McGowan said what we’re all thinking at the New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony earlier this week when she urged for more films from women directors while accepting the group’s...
The critically lauded A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night didn’t just garner writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour a Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, but a powerful...
I had a sinking feeling when the Producers Guild announced their ten nominees for Best Picture on Monday. Take a gander at what was selected: American Sniper, Birdman, Boyhood, Foxcatcher, Gone...
News, Theater, Videos
Anglophiles, rejoice! Helen Mirren will reprise one of her greatest roles, albeit in an entirely different production, when she returns to Broadway this winter. Mirren will play Queen Elizabeth II...
Emmy-winning actress Uzo Aduba, best known as Suzanne/”Crazy Eyes” on Orange is the New Black, will star with Maggie Grace in a drama called Showing Roots that explores the socio-cultural...
Awards, Festivals, News
In honor of Jodie Foster’s five decades behind and in front of the camera, the 5th annual Athena Film Festival (Feb. 5–8) will salute the Oscar-winning actress and director with its Laura Ziskin...
Melissa McCarthy isn’t letting the unfair maligning that Tammy received from the entertainment press get her down. McCarthy will return to the multiplex this May in the CIA comedy Spy and is...
Scarlett Johansson proved she’s a bankable action star last year by delivering $458.8 million in box-office receipts with Lucy (reportedly budgeted at a mere $40 million) after years of playing a...
Veteran producers Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria have been named the new co-presidents of DreamWorks Animation, the studio whose last picture with a female protagonist was six years ago (2009’s...
Documentary, News, Trailers, Videos, Women Directors
If Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken whet your appetite for more tales of WWII heroics, Roberta Grossman’s Above and Beyond will likely satisfy that craving. The Nancy Spielberg-produced documentary...
Features, Films
January is widely considered to be a dumping ground for bad movies, but there’s actually an embarrassment of art-house riches to be found this month in theaters, from Oscar vehicles to impressive...
Women and Hollywood is taking a break this week. Please enjoy one of our most popular posts of the year below. We will return with new features, editorials, and news stories on Monday, January 5....
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