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Amy Adams: A Lois Lane We Deserve
Reviews for the new re-imagining of Superman–Man of Steel–hit the internet earlier in the week. So far many are saying it’s a new version that is certainly worth checking out. But...
Trailer Watch: Haute Cuisine
Haute Cuisine is based on the true story of Daniele Delpeuche (Catherine Frot) and how she was appointed as the chef for Francois Mitterrand, the president of France. In Variety’s review of...
Lauren Graham Adapting Her Novel into TV Series
Actress Lauren Graham (Parenthood, The Gilmore Girls) is adapting her bestselling debut novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe into a television series. Graham recently closed a deal with Ellen...
Trailer Watch: Teaser for Diana – Starring Naomi Watts
Check out the teaser trailer for Diana, starring Naomi Watts, as the iconic Princess Diana. The film focuses on the last two years of her life–looking at her activism and relationships with...
Women, Aging and Hollywood
In recent interviews, both Kim Cattrall and Susan Sarandon have both spoken about aging in Hollywood. Neither had good things to say about their experiences. Cattrall, who is in London starring in...
Trailer Watch: Red-Band Trailer for The To-Do List – Written and Directed by Maggie Carey
Maggie Carey’s The To-Do List is on our list of our most anticipated summer movies. The film stars Aubrey Plaza as Brandy, a recent high school graduate who decides to channel her scholastic...
Women Directed and Centric Films Playing at Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival kicks off on June 13th with a great line up of women directed and centric films. Held in New York, the festival will be showing 18 documentaries and two fictional...
This is Not OK: Photoshopping Melissa McCarthy on The Heat UK Poster
Our most anticipated female centric movie of the summer, The Heat, is merely weeks away from its release. A U.K. promo image was unveiled for the film last week and Melissa McCarthy was looking very,...
Trailer Watch: Lifetime’s Anna Nicole – Directed by Mary Harron
The late Anna Nicole Smith has been one of the most fascinating and tragic celebrity figures. And Lifetime is telling her story. Anna Nicole, directed by Mary Harron, documents Anna Nicole...
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara to Star in ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are set to star in Don’t Mess With Texas. After a bidding war, Universal just made a deal for the script, written by John Quaintance and David Feeney, who...
Feminist of the Day: Joss Whedon on Lack of Female Superheroes
Joss Whedon has created some of our favorite female characters in his television and films. In a conversation with The Daily Beast, Whedon was asked why there’s such a lack of female...
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Premieres Tonight on HBO
If one had any doubts about the vibrancy of international feminism today, one need only watch the new documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer which premieres tonight on HBO to have those doubts fully...
The 2013 Tony Awards — Women Win Big
Even though I don’t get to the theatre as much as I used to, it will always remain my first love. And last night’s Tony Awards were a reminder to me of why I fell in love in the...
Weekly Update June 7th: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Tiger Eyes If you are a woman of my age, you grew up reading Judy Blume She was your touchstone. Now this weekend the first of her novels to make it to the...
Kathleen Kennedy on How Far Women Have to Go in Hollywood
President of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy was profiled as one of USA Today’s Innovators and Icons. She talks about her history in the industry, her new position and about minorities in...
Trailer Watch: Netflix’s Orange is the New Black – Created by Jenji Kohan
Netflix is continuing to add to their growing original programming with Orange is the New Black created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds) and based on Piper Kerman’s memoir. It’s their first female...
Quote of the Day: Gina Torres on Hollywood Sexism and Sci-Fi
The ladies at The Mary Sue shared a quote from the awesome Gina Torres, star of Firefly and Suits, about the industry’s sexism and sci-fi. I walk into a room, and for this industry, I’m...
Trailer Watch: Blackfish – Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
The official trailer for Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Sundance hit, Blackfish, was recently released. Intense is the only way to describe it. It feels a lot like The Cove about dolphins in...
Jennifer Lawrence to Produce/Star in Susanne Bier’s Rules of Inheritance
Jennifer Lawrence is taking it to the next level. She is set to star in and produce The Rules of Inheritance based on Claire Bidwell Smith’s memoir of the same title. The story centers...
AM Homes Takes the Women’s Prize for Fiction
In a year with some extraordinary books on the short list including the presumed favorite Hilary Mantel’s Bringing Down the Bodies, AM Homes has become the 5th American in a row to take home...
The Hobbit Gets Some Female Power with Evangeline Lilly
The next installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy is already being anticipated and Entertainment Weekly got a sneak peek at a brand new female character played by Evangeline Lilly....
Kristen Stewart’s Two Upcoming Indie Roles
Post Twilight and post Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart has booked two indie roles. The first is in Camp X-Ray, a political drama, in which Stewart will be starring. She’ll play a...
Trailer Watch: Short Term 12 – Starring Brie Larson
Short Term 12, starring Brie Larson, is about Grace, a twentysomething, working at a foster care facility, alongside her co-worker boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr.). Grace is excellent at her job but...
Women in View Releases Report on the Status of Women Working in TV in Canada
Women in View, a national non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing the Canadian media industry by strengthening gender and cultural diversity both on screen and behind the scenes...
Women’s Prize for Fiction Snags New Sponsor
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has just snagged a major sponsorship deal with liquor company Baileys. Starting in 2014, the prize will be known as the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction....
Women and Hollywood is Going to London
Great News. We’re taking the show on the road again. This time to London. It’s been a very busy spring and we are so excited to kick the summer off with a trip to London...
WGA Announces 101 Best Written TV Series – See the Women Written Shows on List
The Writers Guild of America just announced their 101 Best Written TV Series list. There are few women written shows on the list and none within the top ten. (To clarify- we have listed the...
Interview with Katie Aselton – Director and Star of Black Rock
Black Rock is every woman’s worst nightmare. You go out on an adventure with friends and then things go horribly wrong and you are running for your life. Katie Aselton gives us a film where the...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Busy Philipps Gives Some Real Talk on Body Image
The always hilarious Busy Philipps, star of Cougartown, recently sat down on Amanda de Cadenet for her show The Conversation. The two had a frank talk about breastfeeding,...
Marvel Releases New X-Men Comic Series with All Women Cast
Here’s some cool news, Marvel has just released a new X-Men series…with an all female cast led by Storm (played by Halle Berry in the films). The first comic in the new series, X-Men #1,...
Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and Florence Welch Headline Feminist Benefit Concert
Chime for Change, an organization that promotes education, health and justice for women founded by Beyonce, Salma Hayek and Gucci designer, Frida Giannini, held a concert Sound of Change...
Geena Davis Speaks About the Lack of Opportunities for Women in Hollywood at the MPAA
Last week, in a conversation with Rep. Rosa DeLaura, D-Conn., Geena Davis spoke to the Motion Picture Association of American about the lack of opportunities and the dismal statistics for women...
Lois Smith, Jessica Hecht and Paula Vogel Among the Honorees at The 4th Annual Lilly Awards
The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theatre along with Julia Jordan, Theresa Rebeck, Marsha Norman, and Tim Sanford have announced the honorees for the 4th annual Lilly Awards. The...
Jean Stapleton – An Appreciation
All in the Family is without a doubt one of the seminal shows in TV history. It was a sitcom that defined our times. It was about a country that was struggling — and still is...
Weekly Update May 31: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Hannah Arendt – Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Hannah Arendt was a complicated woman and director Margarethe von Trotta has made a complicated film...
Feminist of the Day: Patrick Stewart Talks Violence Against Women
Sir Patrick Stewart has always been an outspoken advocate on violence against women speaking out at conferences and organizations. This past weekend, Stewart was at Comicpalooza in Texas. When...
Watch This: BBC’s Up The Women – Written by and Starring Jessica Hynes
Premiering tonight on BBC Four is Jessica Hynes’s (star/co-writer of the cult hit Spaced) Up The Women–a sitcom set in 1910 about suffragettes. Up The Women is BBC Four’s first...
Glenn Close to Join Guardians of the Galaxy
The amazing Glenn Close is about to join Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy as head of the Nova Cops–a space police force. Our friends over at The Mary Sue broke Close’s casting...
Trailer Watch: Paloma – Written and Directed by Julia Stiles on WIGS
As we’ve previously reported, Julia Stiles has made herself a force on the hit YouTube channel, WIGS that does scripted dramas and features with female leads. Stiles is currently starring in...
New Clip from Mara Brock Akil’s Being Mary Jane – Starring Gabrielle Union
We reported back in September that powerhouse Mara Brock Akil with husband/development partner Salim Akil were creating a new show for BET, Being Mary Jane, starring Gabrielle Union. The show...
Blue is the Warmest Color Author Slams Sex Scenes in Film Adaptation
Everyone has been buzzing about Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color throughout all of Cannes and even more since its win of the coveted Palme d’Or. The three hour lesbian...
Heather Graham Talks About Roles for Women, Sexuality and Expectations
Last week, we reported that Michelle Rodriguez, fed up with the writing of female characters, has been doing her own writing. And it looks like Heather Graham is doing the same thing. In an...
TIFF Rerun: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa – Director and Star of Hannah Arendt
Originally published on October 29. Hannah Arendt opens in New York today and in Los Angeles on June 7th. Last, but not the bit least is a conversation with master director Margarethe von Trotta...
Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon Being Considered for ‘Rodham’
As expected some of the most talented women in Hollywood are being considered to play Hillary Clinton in the upcoming Rodham. Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon and Amanda...
Audrey Tautou Doesn’t Want a Hollywood Career
In a recent interview with Radio Times, Audrey Tautou said she doesn’t want a Hollywood career because of the scrutiny that actresses go through. The Amelie actress, who starred in The Da Vinci...
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to Star in ‘Carol’
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in Carol–an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt. Phyllis Nagy wrote the screenplay and Todd Haynes is set to...
Cannes 2013 Wraps Up Another Festival Full Of Sexist Issues
The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up Sunday evening with the announcement of the Palme D’Or and for a festival that continues to think and say that it does not have a “woman problem”...
Blue is the Warmest Color Wins Palme D’Or at Cannes
On a day where there was a march in Paris against gay marriage that turned violent (same sex marriage becomes legal in France on Wednesday), the three hour lesbian drama Blue is the Warmest...
Weekly Update May 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Fill The Void – Written and Directed by Rama Burshtein I saw Fill the Void back in September at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s been making its...
Julianne Moore on Women and Aging in Hollywood
We didn’t think that it was possible for Julianne Moore to be even more incredible. The acclaimed actress recently did an interview with DuJour magazine for their June issue. In it the...
New Trailer: Byzantium – Starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton
IFC Films has just released a new trailer for Byzantium, based on Moira Buffini’s play which she also adapted for the screen. The film follows Clara (Gemma Arterton) and Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan)...