Festivals, Films, News, Women Writers
Attention aspiring female film critics! Are you ready to break the glass ceiling that is the dudeocracy of film writers? Are you ready to change the dismal numbers of female film critics out there?...
News, Television
HBO has confirmed a debut date for “High Maintenance.” The comedy series will sick-off its six-episode inaugural season on September 16 at 11 p.m. The series, based on the web series of the...
Awards, Films, News
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain is joining this year’s Oscar race. Variety reports that EuropaCorp and FilmNation have decided on “an awards-season release” of December 9 for...
Comedy, Films, News, Television
Jessica Jones is returning to the comics, IGN has reported. After the success of the Netflix series starring Krysten Ritter revolving around the character, Marvel is bringing her back to...
News, Television, Women Executives
Freedom Road Productions, the company run by rapper-musician Common and his manager and partner Derek Dudley, have hired Shelby Stone as President of Production, Deadline has reported. Stone is the...
Festivals, Films, News, Women Directors
The Locarno Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 69th edition of the fest. The Switzerland-based festival boasts an International Competition that’s nearly 50 percent female-directed, or...
Films, News
Suck it, trolls. As we continue to celebrate this weekend’s opening of “Ghostbusters,” some fantastic news has hit that looks good for the movie’s box-office prospects. The all-lady...
Jennifer Aniston gets to determine her own “happily ever after” — tabloids and societal pressure be damned. The “Friends” actress penned a candid essay for The Huffington Post, where...
Documentary, News, Trailers, Women Directors
Just in time for the upcoming election, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi takes viewers behind the scenes of where American politicians find the funding for their costly campaigns. As the...
Films, News, Women Directors, Women Writers
“Even When I Fall” New York-based production company Fork Films has announced funding for 10 film projects in various stages of development, 90 percent of which are female-directed. The 10...
Films, News, Trailers, Women Directors
Mira Nair has lived in Kampala, Uganda for over 27 years, but hadn’t heard of Phiona, Uganda’s female chess champion, until a Ugandan at Disney told her of the inspiring story. In this new...
A trailer has landed for “White Girl,” Elizabeth Wood’s feature directorial debut. The film premiered to rave reviews at Sundance, where it was compared to Larry Clark’s “Kids,” another...
Books, Films, News, Women Directors
“Kung Fu Panda 2” director Jennifer Yuh Nelson will make her live-action directorial debut with an adaptation of YA hit “The Darkest Minds,” the first installment of a book trilogy by...
Films, News, Television
The Australian government has announced the 58 projects selected for Screen Australia’s Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories and Brilliant Careers. The selections include 45 story ideas and 13...
Films, News, Women Directors
The Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles have announced that they have hired Alison Emilio for the newly-appointed position of Director for the Systemic Change Project. Emilio has more...
Music, News, Television
Yet another amazing woman has been added to the “Queen Sugar” roster. Meshell Ndegeocello will score the OWN series. Ava DuVernay, the co-creator of “Queen Sugar,” announced the news via...
Features, Films, News
“Ghostbusters”: Sony As we continue our celebration of “Ghostbusters” this week, the film, which opens this Friday, July 15, faces yet another foe: phony IMDb ratings. In a move that comes...
Books, Films, News
Working Title has optioned Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon’s memoir “In My Shoes,” Deadline has reported. Comedian and screenwriter Laura Solon (“Hot in Cleveland”) has adapted the...
Disney's latest princess is different than the rest. The House of Mouse will introduce a new princess later this month when the kids TV series “Elena of Avalor” premieres on the Disney...
Festivals, Films, News
Israeli director Keren Yedaya will shoot a big-screen version of the 1986 surrealist Israeli stage rock opera “Mami,” Screen Daily has reported. The original musical “created political waves...
An excerpt from the preface for “Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World” by Harriet Margolis, Julia Stein, and Alexis Krasilovsky. Preface by Alexis Krasilovsky. Every couple of...
It’s “Ghostbusters” week here at Women and Hollywood, and we’ll be celebrating the film all week up until its official release on Friday, July 15. After all of the misogynist backlash, the...
Melissa Harris-Perry is heading to BET News, Deadline has reported. Harris-Perry parted ways with her former network, MSNBC, after an email she wrote denouncing the network’s decision to preempt...
News, Theater, Women Directors, Women Writers
New Georges to Celebrate 25th Anniversary with World Premieres by Hilary Bettis and Sheila Callaghan New Georges, a theatrical production company devoted to women, has announced that they will...
Awards, Features, Films, News
Pickford on the set of “Little Annie Rooney” Guest Post by Samantha Shada For five years I passed the signs on Venice at National; the only billboard sized image in Los Angeles with a woman...
Features, Films, Women Directors
“Our Little Sister” Films About Women Opening This Week Under the Sun (Documentary) (Opens in NY; Opens in LA July 15) “My father says that Korea is the most beautiful country… Korea is...
Films, News, Television, Women Executives
Maria Grasso has been named President of Tiny Pyro, “UnReal” co-creator Marti Noxon’s production banner, Deadline has reported. Grasso is a veteran TV producer who has developed and overseen...
British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo, star of Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” has joined up with The GEANCO Foundation to start the first David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls in Nigeria, The...
Alicia Vikander’s “Tomb Raider” reboot now has a release date. Multiple outlets have reported that we’ll see Vikander take on the famous role of Lara Croft on March 16, 2018. Vikander took...
Comedy, Films, News
Tony Stark will soon step out of the Iron Man suit, Screen Rant has reported, and much to the delight of diverse comic fans everywhere, his successor is a black woman. Riri Williams is a...
Bella Thorne will star in “Break My Heart 1,000 Times,” Variety has reported, an adaptation of the young adult novel by Daniel Waters. The plot centers on “a cataclysmic event that tears the...
Music, News
VH1 has announced that Missy Elliott will be honored at the upcoming “VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens” event for her work as an artist, producer, and writer. As we previously reported,...
Filming has begun on Joan Collins and Pauline Collins’ new film “The Time of Their Lives,” Screen Daily reports. The film is described as a road trip comedy with “former Hollywood siren...
Features, News, Women Directors
While we at Women and Hollywood, and others in the industry, have been fighting for women to be given the opportunities to direct in film and television, there’s one segment of the business that...
Films, News, Trailers
Almost everyone has been to a wedding where you notice “the table.” The one with the singletons, old bosses, young cousins, and weird neighbors. In the new trailer for “Table 19,” Anna...
You’re Invited! An Evening with Melissa Silverstein in Australia: Why Gender Equality is Vital for Hollywood Dear Australian Women and Hollywood readers! You’re invited to a special event in...
The new trailer for Maris Curran’s directorial feature film debut “Five Nights in Maine” brings chills as two powerhouse actors, David Oyelowo and Dianne Wiest, face off in...
We’re all familiar with the underwritten female character tropes that appear in a multitude of movies these days. And now YouTube sketch group Nuclear Family has gathered them all up in one...
Documentary, Films, News, Women Directors
Cinema Guild has announced the acquisition of U.S. distribution rights to “The Wrong Light,” a powerful documentary directed by Josie Swantek Heitz’s and Dave Adams. According to the film’s...
Films, Trailers, Women Directors, Women Writers
First-time feature film director Clea DuVall has taken some of your favorite TV actors, put them in a blender, and created the amazing ensemble cast that makes up “The Intervention.” In the...
Focus World, a distribution arm of Focus Features, has acquired Julia Ducournau’s psychological horror film “Raw” for most worldwide territories. The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film...
News, Theater
She may have immortalized her career in film by playing Delores Umbridge in the “Harry Potter” movies, but Imelda Staunton is having an equally successful turn on the stage as of late. As...
Features, News
In a new short film by Tatia Pllieva called “Speech,” five actresses deliver selected portions of some of the most famous presidential speeches in history. Becki Newton (“Ugly Betty”) takes...
Janelle Monae, along with Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson, will star in an upcoming film that tells the story of three African- American women who worked for NASA during the 1960s space race....
News
Actress Thandie Newton, who will soon appear in HBO’s upcoming series “Westworld,” told a troubling story to W Magazine recently about her sexual abuse at the hands of a director for whom she...
Two comic book heroines are set to team up for a new horror comedy with an enticing premise. “Deadpool’s” Brianna Hildebrand and “X-Men: Apocalypse’s” Alexandra Shipp will star in...
News, Television, Trailers, Women Directors
A new trailer has arrived for “Shots Fired,” a 10-hour TV event from Fox. The police drama was created by wife-husband duo Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Beyond the Lights,” “The Secret Life of...
Box Office, Films, News
It was a huge weekend in the UK for the women of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.” According to The Guardian, the film scored big at the box office, earning £4.4 million (about $5.7 million in...
Acclaimed actress Lori Singer will be honored at the Maine International Film Festival with a career retrospective. The retrospective will include screenings of her films “Footloose,” “Trouble...
The Academy took great steps to diversify its membership this week, and now the NYC Office of Media and Entertainment is launching a campaign to help even more. The New York City Mayor’s Office...
“Our Kind of Traitor” Films About Women Opening This Week The Innocents — Directed by Anne Fontaine; Co-Written by Anne Fontaine, Sabrina B. Karine, and Alice Vial (Opens in NY...
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