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Bette Midler on Broadway in I’ll Eat You Last
I’ll Eat You Last takes place on a fateful day in 1981 when Sue Mengers got the phone call that she was no longer representing Barbra Streisand. The two most powerful women in Hollywood...
Trailer Watch: Girl Most Likely – Written by Michelle Morgan and Co-Directed by Shari Springer Berman
This is Kristen Wiig’s first leading role onscreen since Bridesmaids. I hope people are not expecting Bridesmaids 2 because this looks a bit more intense. Formerly titled Imogene,...
Lauren Season 2 Premieres on WIGS
Lauren, starring Jennifer Beals and Troian Bellisario, begins it’s second season on WIGS today with its first four episodes. Lauren continues the story of a soldier who is raped and is...
Aisha Tyler Masterfully Calls Out Her Haters
We are just so impressed with Aisha Tyler, comedian and actress. Turns out Tyler is also a huge gamer and while some folks in the community were receptive about her being invited to host the...
Weekly Update May 3: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Kiss of the Damned – Written and Directed by Xan Cassavetes If you are a fan of horror films, especially not the torture porn crap of late, you’ll...
Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy to Take on 2014 Independence Day Box Office
As we anxiously countdown the days until The Heat is released on June 28th, we are always excited to hear any news about the lovely Melissa McCarthy. As we had previously reported, McCarthy was...
Trailer Watch: Crazy Kind of Love – Directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness, Written by Karen McCullah Lutz
Crazy Kind of Love, directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness and written by Karen McCullah Lutz, focuses on a broken family helmed by Augusta (Virginia Madsen). However their relationships to one another...
TIFF Rerun: Interview with Susanne Bier – Director of Love Is All You Need
Originally published on September 19. Love Is All You Need opens in limited release on Friday. At the Toronto Film Festival you see a lot of heavy movies really early in the morning. Love is...
Jessica Chastain to Star in The Zookeeper’s Wife
Jessica Chastain has just signed on to star in The Zookeeper’s Wife, an adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s novel, that will be directed by Whale Rider director Niki Caro. With a...
AFI Holds Directing Workshop for Women Showcase
AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women program will be holding a screening of eight short films all directed by women. The films are a result of a year-long fellowship with AFI, honoring those in...
Nora Ephron, Cyndi Lauper Among Tony Award Nominees
Earlier this week, the 2013 Tony awards nominations were announced. Nora Ephron received a posthumous nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. Iconic pop star, Cyndi Lauper, was nominated for...
Trailer Watch: Byzantium – Starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan
Check out the trailer for Byzantium (written by Moira Buffini) starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as mysterious women who move to a coastal down where deadly occurrences begin to happen. The...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for The East – Co-Written by and Starring Brit Marling
As the trailers for The East continue to roll out and with its recent outing at SXSW, the buzz for Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s tense thriller is growing. The film stars Marling as Sarah,...
A Dude to Direct Hillary Clinton Biopic
As we previously reported, a biopic about everyone’s favorite lady and potential presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the works. The Black List scripted penned by Young II Kim...
Women In Film, Los Angeles Announces Crystal + Lucy Awards Honorees
Women In Film, Los Angeles has announced their Crystal + Lucy Awards Honorees for 2013. It’s an extremely impressive lineup. The awards, established in 1977, celebrate women and men in the...
Women and Hollywood Heads to Los Angeles
I’m coming to LA! Come join me and the whole Indiewire gang for an evening of fun on May 7 at Sadie’s from 6-11pm. Sadie’s is located at 1638 N. Las Palmas. They will have...
Trailer Watch: Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes – Starring Willa Holland
Teenagers of many generations have connected to Judy Blume’s iconic novels that focus on their interior lives. It’s actually pretty surprising that none of Blume’s work hasn’t...
Marianne Elliott and Helen Mirren Win at Olivier Awards
This year’s Olivier Awards winners, Britian’s prestigious awards for excellence in theatre, were announced on Sunday in London. Some new changes for the awards this year included a new...
LACMA Holds Special Film Series Highlighting Young Women Filmmakers from Mexico
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is holding a special film series featuring the work of young female filmmakers from Mexico on May 10-11. The series was organized with AMBULANTE, a non-profit...
Trailer Watch: Shadow Dancer – Starring Andrea Riseborough
Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as a woman who is arrested in a failed bombing attempt in London. She’s a member of a family of IRA fighters circa the 1990s. After threats...
Weekly Update April 26: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Sun Don’t Shine – Directed and Written by Amy Seimetz Written and directed by actress/filmmaker Amy Seimetz (Tiny Furniture, Upstream Color and Pit...
Tina Gordon Chism and Leila Djansi Directing New Films
Writer/Directors Tina Gordon Chism and Leila Djansi have some new projects that are currently being developed. Gordon Chism, whose directorial debut Peeples starring Kerry Washington hits theaters...
Tribeca Film: Wadjda – Written and Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
What Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) wants to do is simple – ride a bike. That shouldn’t be so difficult, but when you live in Saudia Arabia, a place where women can’t drive, a girl...
Happy Friday: Watch Tilda Swinton’s Ebertfest 2013 Dance Party
The marvelous and flawless Tilda Swinton alongside the late Roger Ebert’s wife, Chaz led a dance party to Barry White at this year’s Ebertfest. It’ll make you want to go out...
Cannes Adds 2 More Women Directed Films to Un Certain Regard, None to Competition
Today the Cannes Film Festival announced additions to their Competition and Un Certain Regard line ups. Two films directed by women were added to Un Certain Regard. Katrin Gebbe’s directorial...
Watch This: Ron Charles “Explains” Women’s Fiction
Watch The Washington Post’s book critic, Ron Charles hilariously satirize the idea of “women’s fiction.” He brings light to the sexism embedded within criticism and the truly...
Trailer Watch: See Girl Run – Starring Robin Tunney
Emmie (Robin Tunney) is questioning the choices she’s made–about her husband, her life and her past relationships. She decides to go back to her hometown to see if her high school love...
Meera Menon Receives Inaugural Nora Ephron Prize
As we previously reported, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival established a new award in honor of the late, great Nora Ephron that would be given to a new emerging female filmmaker....
Hot Docs Preview: Interview with Liz Marshall – Director of The Ghost in Our Machine
The Ghosts in Our Machine is an extremely upsetting yet moving film about how we treat animals. It tells the story of Jo-Ann McArthur, a photographer, who has dedicated her life to showing the...
Cannes Announces Jury Members
Cannes just announced the members of this year’s Steven Spielberg led jury for the festival and to say it is a high profile bunch would be an understatement. Joining the jury is Oscar winning...
New Trailer for The Bling Ring – Directed by Sofia Coppola
As we’ve recently reported, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring will be opening up Un Certain Regard at Cannes. On the heels of that announcement here comes another trailer for the film....
CinemaCon Holds Panel on Women and the Box Office
Last week at CinemaCon, they held a panel about women and the box office. Moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Editorial Director, Janice Min, the panel touched upon the depressing statistics...
Ava DuVernay Wins Inaugural Heineken Affinity Award at Tribeca
One of our favorite women directors, Ava DuVernay has had an incredible year. And the accolades for DuVernay’s work, keep on rightly coming. Heineken, alongside the Tribeca Film...
Cannes Announces Critic Week and Directors Fortnight Line Ups
The Cannes Film Festival continues to roll out more of the lineup. Directors Fortnight: Henri by Yolande Moreau The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard El verano de los peces voladores by Marcela...
Trailer Watch: Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes – Written and Directed by Francesca Gregorini
Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes made its debut at Sundance. The film follows Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who lives with her father (Alfred Molina) and stepmother (Frances...
A Night With Barbra Streisand
Monday evening, Barbra Streisand received the 40th Chaplin Award given by the Film Society at Lincoln Center. As you can guess the award was named after the first recipient Charlie Chaplin....
NYC Event Alert: The Ins & Outs of Film Festival PR Panel On 4/24
If you are in New York, check out Women and Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein moderating a panel on film festival PR tomorrow, Wednesday (4/24) at Merrill Lynch (601 Lexington Avenue, 47th Floor)...
Interview with Lily Tomlin – Narrator and Executive Producer of An Apology to Elephants
Tonight, in honor of Earth Day, HBO will premiere An Apology to Elephants narrated by Lily Tomlin that will put to an end any feeling person’s trips to the circus. It’s an...
Barbra Streisand to Receive Chaplin Award for Lifetime Achievement
Tonight, Barbra Streisand will receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award for her impressive carer. The society specifically mentioned her work in front and behind the camera...
Time Unveils 2013 Most Influential People in World
Time magazine has announced it’s 2013 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. And it’s full of extremely inspirational women from some of our favorites in entertainment...
Whose Responsibility Is It To Move The Dial for Women Directors?
So now that the Cannes lineup is in the rear view mirror it’s time for a moment of reflection. I want to thank Mr. Thierry Fremaux the head of the Cannes Film Festival, for inspiring this...
Marin Alsop to be First Female Conductor for BBC’s The Last Night of The Proms
Until now, for 118 years, BBC Proms has never been led by a female conductor. American born, premiere conductor Marin Alsop will be the first woman to do so. The festival will have over...
Watch The Top 3 WNBA Picks Talk Sports and Sexuality
While we have made great progress on gay marriage, we stil live in a world where there is not a single professional out male athlete that is currently playing a major sport. They are there,...
Weekly Update April 19: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Filly Brown A promising hip-hop rhymer from Los Angeles finds herself in a gray area when a record producer offers her a compromising shot at stardom. (From...
Kathleen Kennedy Accepts 2013 Pioneer of the Year Award at CinemaCon
As we previously reported, Kathleen Kennedy was tapped to receive the Pioneer of the Year award at the Will Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneers dinner at CinemaCon. Kennedy became only the second woman...
Jada Pinkett Smith Addresses Gossip
As you know we don’t cover the personal lives of the people in the entertainment business on Women and Hollywood. But there Are occasions where we need to make an exception. Jada...
Vulture Includes No Women on 20 Essential Documentary List, Thom Powers Counters
Recently, Vulture listed their 20 Essential Documentaries of the century. Documentaries from Michael Moore, Werner Herzog and Morgan Spurlock made the cut, but not a single women-directed documentary...
Trailer Watch: Caroline and Jackie
Caroline and Jackie is about the relationships between two sisters. On a celebratory birthday trip, Caroline (Marguerite Moreau) visits Jackie (Bitsie Tulloch) and her boyfriend. What is at first a...
Cannes Unveils 2013 Line Up With One Female Director in Main Competition
Well I guess there will be no petition or protests this year because the folks at Cannes have picked a single female directed film to compete in the main competition for this year’s festival....
2013 Independent Film Week Call for Entries
Independent Film Week is coming up and they are putting out a call for entries. It is one of the largest forums for the discovery of new projects in independent film in the country. Their...
Nora Ephron Prize at Tribeca Film Festival
In honor of the late, great Nora Ephron, the Tribeca Film Festival has created a new award after the writer/director, The Nora Ephron Prize. The $25,000 prize supported by Vogue.com will recognize a...