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Amy Schumer to Produce Comedy Central Show Starring Rachel Feinstein
Trailer Watch: What a Parent-Preteen Fight Looks Like from the ‘Inside Out’
BBC to Adapt J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Mystery Series for Television
J.K. Rowling’s post-Hogwarts mystery series is coming to television. Well, to British television, anyway. The BBC will adapt Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm — the two...
Penny Marshall to Direct Biopic Of Effa Manley, the First Woman to Make Baseball Hall Of Fame
A League of Their Own director Penny Marshall is returning to the diamond field with Effa, a biopic about Effa Manley, the first woman inducted into the baseball hall of fame. Manley was the...
Shonda Rhimes Pays Tribute to Hollywood’s Female Pioneers: “I Haven’t Broken Through Any Glass Ceilings”
It’s an unlikely statement, even a confusing one. “I haven’t broken through any glass ceilings,” announced Shonda Rhimes upon receiving the Hollywood Reporter’s Sherry Lansing Award,...
Sarah Silverman on Joan Rivers: She Was Punished “for the Crime of Getting Her Own Show”
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‘The Red Tent’: The Old Testament Minus Testosterone
Golden Globes Justifies Its Existence With Nods for ‘Transparent,’ ‘Jane the Virgin,’ Julianne Moore in ‘Maps to the Stars’
The Golden Globes proved its bona fides as a worthy alternative to the Oscars and the Emmys with this year’s nods. Nominees include small-screen dark horses unlikely to be recognized by the Emmys...
Ava DuVernay Becomes First African American Woman Nominated for Best Director Golden Globe
From my latest Forbes post on the importance of Ava DuVernay’s historic nomination: One of the most important parts of seeing Ava DuVernay’s nomination is the visibility that she will get on a...
Angelina Jolie, Shonda Rhimes, Oprah Winfrey Make Women in Entertainment Power 100 List
The Hollywood Reporter’s 23rd annual Power 100 list is out, and it’s more or less the list you’d expect: a few superstar actresses (Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence, Shailene Woodley);...
Women Dominate NAACP Awards’ Directing, TV Drama, Fiction Categories
Women weren’t hard to find among the NAACP Awards’ sprawling and maverick nominees in film, television, music, and books. Three female filmmakers — Ava DuVernay (Selma), Amma Asante...
Trailer Watch: ‘Little Accidents’ Expose a Big Secret in Elizabeth Banks Drama
The Big O: The Lone Craft Category That is Almost Always Sewn Up By Female Nominees
Quick: Name the one Oscar category outside of acting that’s routinely dominated not just by female nominees, but female winners. Here’s a hint: It involves dressing for success. Or, rather,...
Trailer Watch: Julianne Moore Grieves for Herself in ‘Still Alice’
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Trailer Watch: Hannah Grows Up (Just a Little Bit) in New Spot for ‘Girls’ Season 4
‘Zero Motivation’ Director Talya Lavie on Finding Humor in the “Gray” Lives of Female Israeli Soldiers
Since winning the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival’s top prize (and the Nora Ephron award), Talya Lavie’s debut film, Zero Motivation, has become a critical darling. Currently boasting a 88% score on...
Athena Film Festival to Honor Gina Prince-Bythewood, Sheila Nevins, and Cathy Schulman
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood, HBO documentary president Sheila Nevins, and Oscar-winning producer and Women in Film president Cathy Shulman will be feted at the 2015 Athena Film Festival for their...
Leslye Headland, Amy Berg, Jennifer Siebel Newsom to Debut Films at Sundance 2015
Nine women-directed narrative and documentary features (out of a total of 29 premieres) will make their debuts at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among the much-anticipated first-time...
African-American Film Critics Assn. Names ‘Selma,’ ‘Belle,’ ‘Unbroken’ Among 2014’s Top Films
Selma has been named the African-American Film Critics Association’s top movie of the year. The first studio picture with Martin Luther King, Jr., as the protagonist won accolates from the AAFCA...
Trailer Watch: ‘Appropriate Behavior’ is the Next Great Love Story
‘Miss Julie’ Director Liv Ullmann on Adapting a Misogynistic 19th-Century Play for 21st-Century Sensibilities
After making her film debut as a teenager and gaining international fame by starring in ten of Ingmar Bergman’s movies (including Persona and Scenes from a Marriage), Liv Ullmann directed her...
Manohla Dargis Thrusts Ava DuVernay into the Best Director Race
In this Sunday’s NY Times Arts & Leisure section, one of the Grey Lady’s chief film critics, Manohla Dargis, forcefully made the case for Selma director Ava DuVernay to get recognized in the...
Weekly Update for December 5: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Wild Based on Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir, Wild finds Reese Witherspoon au natural and reminds us that she is one of the best actresses of her...
Trailer Watch: Angela Bassett Directs Yaya DaCosta in Whitney Houston Biopic for Lifetime
I’ll say this for Lifetime: The cable network may draw little in the way of “prestige” attention, but it’s at least making mainstream, widely available movies about women of color like...
Krysten Ritter to Play Superheroine Jessica Jones in Netflix Series
If you’re still mourning the end of Don’t Trust the B — — , here’s some good news: Krysten Ritter is returning to television. According to Deadline, Ritter has been cast as Jessica...
‘Take Care’ Director Liz Tuccillo on Making a Movie About the Inevitable Awkwardness of Exes
You may not have heard of Liz Tuccillo, but you’ve definitely heard of her work. Tuccillo’s first credited script was “The Post-It Always Sticks Twice” episode of Sex and the City, a...
The Big O: Actresses Often Benefit When Musicals Catch Oscar’s Ear
Let’s sing the praises of musicals — especially when it comes to providing opportunities for female performers to shine at Oscar time. Such celebrations of song make up what is probably the...
4 Tips for Female Filmmakers from Ms. In the Biz
Here’s the hard truth. Thenumbers for women in the entertainment industry aren’t great. This is somethingthat we are all well aware of. When both of us started out in the business, wecame onto...
36% of 2015 Sundance Competition Films Directed by Women
In recent years, the Sundance Film Festival has come further than many other events of its kind in representing female directors. Sundance 2015 appears to be shaping up to its reputation as...
Trailer Watch: ‘Jane’ is a Portrait of Jane Fonda As a Young, Pre-Fame Artist
Reese Witherspoon to Receive Palm Springs Film Festival’s Chairman Award for ‘Wild’
The Reese-surgence is in full swing. Reese Witherspoon will receive the Chairman Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Jan. 2–12), an institution rife with Academy voters, for...
Bravo’s ‘Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce’: A Mixed Bag of Tricks from ‘Buffy’ Scribe Marti Noxon
Full disclosure: I have never been divorced (or married), or had kids, so I can’t attest to the veracity of the events in Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce on a personal level. As a viewer...
Atlanta Film Festival Announces Its First Ten Selections, All Directed by Women
The Atlanta Film Festival has chosen six narrative features and four documentaries — all directed by women — as its initial ten selections. ATLFF Director of Programming Kristy Breneman...
Women and Hollywood Podcast: Cheryl Strayed — Author of Wild
Wild opens today in NY and LA. It rolls out to more cities on Friday. You can see info here. I was able to have a great conversation with Cheryl Strayed, the author of the memoir that the film is...
Kerry Washington in Talks to Star in ‘Unforgettable,’ Amma Asante’s Follow-Up to ‘Belle’
Kerry Washington’s movie career is taking off. In addition to starring in director Elizabeth Allen’s upcoming rom com Is He the One, the Emmy-nominated Scandal actress is close to signing on to...
Adopt Films to Release Dakota Fanning and Emma Thompson’s ‘Effie Gray’
Chicken & Egg Pictures Gives $330,000 in Grants to 18 Women-Directed Projects
In anticipation of its 10-year anniversary next year, Chicken & Egg Pictures has chosen 18 documentaries to receive $330,000 in funding. Fourteen new films were selected as part of the 2014 Open...
Crosspost: These Are the Most Employed Women in the UK Film Industry
The following post originally appeared on Stephen Follows’ website and is published here with permission of the author. Last week, I looked at the most employed people in the UK film industry....
Laura Poitras’ ‘Citizenfour,’ Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Make Oscar Doc Shortlist
Three political documentaries and a nonfiction yarn about art forgery represent female documentarians’ contributions to the 2015 Oscar doc shortlist. Four women-directed works will be eligible...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Terry Crews (VIDEO)
Julianne Moore, Tessa Thompson, ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ Win at Gotham Awards
Monday’s Gotham Independent Film Awards ceremony didn’t produce too many surprises. Oscar frontrunners Julianne Moore and Laura Poitras took home the Best Actress and Best Documentary prizes,...
Lauren Graham to Break Late-Night TV’s Glass Ceiling with Ellen DeGeneres (Sort Of)
It’s no secret that late-night television has a diversity problem. As we wrote previously, with Chelsea Handler off the air and Larry Wilmore’s Minority Report not set to debut until January...
December 2014 Film Preview
Decembermight be cold and snowy, but the month’s wide range of films is worth venturingout to the theater to see. Starting strong on December 3, the comedy Zero Motivation follows a unit ofIsraeli...
NYFCC Salutes Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Babadook’ and Laura Poitras’ ‘Citizenfour’
Two women-directed films — Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour — won recognition from the New York Film Critics Circle yesterday. The Babadook, a horror...
‘Belle’ Director Amma Asante: “No Industry Can Remain Sustainable Without New and Diverse Life Blood”
Despite a BAFTA win for her directorial debut (A Way of Life), it took nearly a decade for Amma Asante to make her sophomore picture (Belle). Asante was clearly speaking from first-hand experience...
Jessie Mueller to Take ‘Waitress’ to Broadway
Amy Berg Partnering With Nate Parker for Doc About the “Black Male Crisis”
Women and Hollywood is Looking for Interns for 2015
Women and Hollywood is looking for two interns for 2015. The positions will begin in January and we are looking for interns to commit for at least six months. We are looking for people who are...
Weekly Update for November 21 and 28: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening November 21 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — Written and Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Aniston Goes Dark for ‘Cake’
Jennifer Aniston showed a rare and delightfully dark streak in the 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses, in which she frolicked as a sexually predatory dentist. With this weekend’s release of Horrible...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Hella de Jonge — ‘Don’t Lose Heart’
Sculptor and writer Hella de Jonge has published two books about her youth and her family: Los van de wereld (Apart from the World) and Spring (Jump). (Press materials) Don’t Lose Heart will play...