Awards, Features, Women Directors
Lately, due to the #OscarsSoWhite,#OscarsSoMale and #AltOscarParty campaigns, a lot of attention is being paid to how The Academy, and Hollywood in a more general sense, fails to reward women and...
News
Netflix has ordered a comedy series based on Sophia Amoruso’s best-selling book “#Girlboss.” The streaming service went straight to series with “#Girlboss,” which suggests that they have a...
Features, Weekly Update
Films About Women Opening This Week Pride and Prejudice and Zombies A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships...
News, Women Producers
CBS has ordered a pilot centered on two influential families in a military community from former “Smash” writer Becky Mode. “Four Stars” is set in Tampa, Florida, where the high-ranking...
Documentary, News, Television, Videos
Adele is currently lighting up the Billboard charts and setting records, but she’s far from the first songstress to dominate the airwaves. An upcoming episode of PBS’s “American Masters”...
Documentary, Festivals, News
Dawn Porter’s “Trapped” has landed a distribution deal. Trilogy Films, Big Mouth Productions, Cedar Creek Productions and Chicken & Egg Pictures have announced a partnership with Ro*Co...
News, Trailers, Videos, Women Directors
“How can you think I’d be interested in two hot 20-year-old blondes?” asks Violette’s new beau, Jean-René, when she finds him asleep between a pair of them in the trailer for Julie...
The Orchard has secured all North American rights to Antonio Campos’s “Christine.” The film, which stars Rebecca Hall in the titular role, is based on the story of television reporter Christine...
Festivals, News
Paul Feig has been named the recipient of the inaugural Athena Leading Man Award by the Athena Film Festival, an annual celebration of women and leadership. The “Ghostbusters” helmer is the first...
Comedy, Features, News, Television
When Jon Stewart announced he was stepping down from “The Daily Show,” many prospective successor names were thrown around — one of the most obvious being Samantha Bee, the show’s most...
Crowdfunding, Features, News
This roundup of women-centric crowdfunding projects has a little something for every kind of movie fan. The horrors of motherhood, grief and repeating the mistakes of the past are explored in...
News, Trailers, Videos
A new U.S. trailer has been released for Brit auteur Terence Davies’s latest, “Sunset Song,” which puts young heroine Chris (Agyness Deyn, “Clash of the Titans”) front and center. The film...
Documentary, Features, News, Podcast
Liz Garbus’s “What Happened, Miss Simone?” is the sole woman-helmed documentary in the running for this year’s Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards. The Netflix doc, which features...
Tina Fey’s production company, Little Stranger, has made a first-look deal with Universal. The studio just released “Sisters,” Fey’s most recent film with long-time collaborator Amy Poehler....
Features, News
America Ferrera is weighing in on Hollywood’s diversity problem(s), and not for the first time. The former “Ugly Betty” star’s bit with Eva Longoria at this year’s Golden Globes was easily...
News, Videos, Women Directors
Array — the film collective founded by director Ava DuVernay dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women — has announced indie film “Echo Park” as its...
News, Videos
“Me Before You” sees Emilia Clarke switching gears from leading armies — and dragon sidekicks — in “Game of Thrones” to taking on the role of caregiver. Clarke plays Louisa, a...
News, Women Directors
Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in “Woman Walks Ahead,” Susanna White’s upcoming Native American period drama set in the 19th century. Chastain, a longtime advocate for diversity in the...
The fourth season of documentary series “America ReFramed” premiered this week on World Channel. The series, which features the work of emerging and veteran filmmakers alike, aims to shine a...
Documentary, Festivals, Women Directors
South by Southwest has announced the bulk of its 2016 lineup, and eight of twenty films in competition are female-helmed or co-helmed: That amounts to a not-at-all shabby 40%. In 2015, only 25% of...
Constance Wu — who has attracted rave reviews for her role as Jessica Huang in the ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” — is set to hone her dramatic skills in independent feature “You...
Videos
Helen Mirren has teamed up with Budweiser for its newly launched #GiveADamn campaign. The Dame is advertising beer in a Super Bowl Commercial while simultaneously laying the verbal smackdown on beer...
Documentary, Festivals, News, Videos
HBO has released a trailer for highly-anticipated documentary feature “Mavis!,” which chronicles the life and times of legendary gospel and soul singer Mavis Staples. The trailer opens with...
Features, News, Women Writers
My cinematic coming of age happened in Paris on a post-collegiate Rotary fellowship. In the 6th arrondissement, where there are almost as many cinemas as there are impeccably-dressed women wearing...
Julie Menin will take over as Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in New York City. Menin, who is currently the Consumer Affairs Commissioner for the city, follows Cynthia...
A premiere date for “Confirmation” has at long last been confirmed: the HBO film starring Kerry Washington will debut on the premium cable network Saturday, April 16 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)....
Amazon has made a multimillion dollar addition to its kids’ content line-up, signing a deal with American Girl to bring programming based on the doll brand’s characters to Amazon Prime later this...
Festivals, News, Trailers, Videos
“The Witch” has been terrifying audiences and earning glowing reviews on the festival circuit since it premiered last year at Sundance — and took home the Directing Award in the U.S....
Writer, producer, director and all-round Renaissance woman Ondi Timoner wil helm a biopic of American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Former “Doctor Who” star Matt Smith will take on the role...
The cover of Vanity Fair’s 2016 Hollywood Issue has been unveiled, and all of the stars being celebrated are women. This is, of course, no accident: The cover is making a statement. Admittedly,...
News, Television
It looks like Archie Panjabi has found the perfect follow-up to her Emmy Award-winning role as Kalinda in “The Good Wife,” and is set to star in her very own vehicle. The London-born actress has...
Keira Knightley is teaming up with the producers behind “Carol,” Number 9 Films (Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley) and Killer Films (Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler). The Oscar-nominated...
Features, News, Women Producers
This excerpt from my new book, “KooKooLand,” describes a time, in the fall of 1978, when I was an aspiring filmmaker in New York City. I’d spent the previous year working for no pay on a...
Documentary, News
“The Eagle Huntress” has found a home at Sony Pictures Classics. The crowd-pleasing Sundance documentary chronicles a 13-year-old Mongolian girl’s attempt to challenge 2,000 years of tradition...
Netflix has given the green light to what’s being billed as the “Gilmore Girls’” final season. Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel will return for...
Mary Harron has signed on to helm “The Family,” a portrait of Charles Manson’s female followers in prison after the Tate-LaBianca murder trials. Harron will collaborate once more with her...
Jennifer Aniston will play sports manager Denise White in a newly announced project for the increasingly diversifying actress. “The Fixer” is based on a pitch from “Dallas Buyers Club”...
Get your hankies out: you’ll need it for the feel-good weepie “Jack of the Red Hearts.” An unfortunate turn of events finds orphaned 18-year-old Jack (AnnaSophia Robb, “The Carrie...
Awards, Documentary, News, Women Writers
Three of Sundance 2016’s top four awards were bestowed on feature debuts from women directors. Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman’s “Weiner,” a portrait of disgraced politician Anthony...
Leading theater director Phyllida Lloyd will helm an all-female adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew” for Shakespeare in the Park’s 2016 season. Cush Jumbo will star as Katherina and Janet...
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