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Hillary Clinton The Early Years Script “Rodham” Gets Some Heat
One of the hottest screenplays in Hollywood right now isn’t just being discussed by industry insiders over lunches in Beverly Hills or in the entertainment blogosphere—it’s also...
Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Prize Has No Women Nominees
The Cinema Eye Honors for Non Fiction Filmmaking have announced their 2013 nominees for outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking. We were troubled to note that their Audience Choice...
Watch This: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Talk Hosting the Golden Globes
If the previously released promo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for the Golden Globes didn't get you excited for their upcoming hosting gig, then the video below should. The hilarious duo discuss...
A Women and Hollywood Announcement
If you read this site regularly, I'm sure you have noticed the growing contribution of intern Kerensa Cadenas. She's been working with the site since this past summer and has been doing...
Erasing Gilda Radner’s Legacy
I read with extreme shock that several of the Gilda's Clubs around the country were going to change their names Cancer Support Community because many people, especially the young ones, who come...
Jennifer Lawrence Calls Acting Stupid, Stares at Meryl Streep, Remains Insanely Likeable
Another day, another reason to want to be best friends with Jennifer Lawrence. With Oscar nominations looming on January 10th, Lawrence, who is a nomination shoo-in for her role in Silver Linings...
Women Severely Underrepresented in British Theatre
Last month the Guardian, building on earlier research of Elizabeth Freestone, artistic director of Pentabus theatre, took a look at the status of women in British Theatre and found some disturbing...
Senate Committee to Investigate Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty is a film that has had its fair share of controversy questioning its politics, blatant sexism toward director Kathryn Bigelow and whether or not the film is pro-torture. Next to...
Putting an Oscar Campaign on Your Credit Card
Oscar nominations close tomorrow (there has been trouble with the on-line voting) and one woman hoping to make the cut is Ann Dowd who has already received accolades for her performance in the creepy...
Trailer Watch: Girls – Season 2
Watch the second trailer for season two of Girls from Lena Dunham. It'll be interesting to see if the show has changed after some of the criticism that season one received. All of us at Women and...
Happy New Year: Here’s the First Teaser Trailer for the 2013 Athena Film Festival
It's coming. The festival begins February 7th. There are still plenty of opportunities to be involved. We still need volunteers. I'm getting excited. The lineup...
2012 The Year in Review
We took a look back on the news for women in and around Hollywood in 2012 and here are the topics we think resonated this past year. Let us know what you think and if we missed any big news of...
Merry Christmas
To everyone celebrating the holiday. We'll be back with some year end roundups later in the week.
Sexism Pushes Its Way Into the Oscar Campaign
In the last week the screws have really been tightening in this bizarre world of Oscar campaigning, and Kathryn Bigelow and her film Zero Dark Thirty are the recipients of what is referred to a...
Interview with Director Amy Berg and Producer Lorri Davis – West of Memphis
West of Memphis is a film that makes you realize that our justice system is not blind. That if you look different or are poor that you can be caught up in a witch hunt of epic proportions and...
3 of 5 2012 Kroll Film Fund Recipients are Women Directed
The Foundation for Jewish Culture granted $80,000 in finishing funds to 5 documentary films under their Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film. The grants range from $10,000 to...
Interview with Anne Fletcher – Director of The Guilt Trip
Barbra Streisand has not had the lead in a film since The Mirror Has Two Faces (which she directed) in 1996. She's back onscreen as Joyce Brewster, Seth Rogan's mom in the road comedy...
Video Interview: Grrls Guide To Filmmaking
I had a great time talking with filmmaker Rolla Selbak for their Grrls Guide to Filmmaking monthly videocast. Your bonus is getting to meet my dog Duke. Enjoy.
Trailer Watch: The Heat Red-Band Trailer – Written by Katie Dippold
We previously posted the trailer for the Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock cop comedy, The Heat. The recently released red-band trailer (NSFW) gives you a better look at what to expect of the Katie...
Interview with Lori Rotskoff on the New Anthology When We Were Free to Be
Cultural historian Lori Rotskoff talks with Holly Rosen Fink about her new anthology, co-edited with Laura L. Lovett, When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the...
3 of 25 Films Inducted into National Film Registry Directed by Women
The Librarian of Congress, James Billington, picked the next batch of 25 films to be inducted into the National Film Registry. 3 of the 25 films chosen by Billington are directed by women. There are...
Angelina Jolie to Direct Unbroken for Universal
Angelina Jolie is set to direct Unbroken, her first major studio film. The film is for Universal and Walden Media. Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling 2010 book, Unbroken looks at...
Martha Nelson: First Woman Named as Editor in Chief for Time
Martha Nelson has just been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Time magazine. Nelson, will be the first woman to hold the post in the 70 plus years that the weekly has existed. Nelson, who has been...
Women’s Film Critics Circle Name Zero Dark Thirty Best Movie of 2012, Ava DuVernay Wins Josephine Baker Award
The Women’s Film Critics Circle have announced their 2012 picks. And as she continues to sweep the awards circuit, Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty won several awards including Best Movie...
6 of 12 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab Project Picks Written by Women
The Sundance Institute has picked 12 projects to participate in their January Screenwriters Lab. The workshop provides writers the opportunity to find financing and other resources for their films....
The 2012 Black List and Hit List Titles Revealed
The folks at The Black List, which recently launched a paid script service, yesterday revealed the names of the top unproduced scripts according to 290 experts in the film business. Another...
Final Trailer for Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty hits theatres in NY and LA tomorrow. In anticipation here is the final trailer for the must talked about (even before it is released) film. I got the chance to see Zero...
The Women Directed Films That Are Qualified for 85th Academy Awards
On Friday the Academy released the list of the 282 films that have qualified for best picture. Animated, Documentaries and Foreign language films are also eligible for best picture if they meet...
Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere Wins Big at The African-American Film Critics Association Awards
The African-American Film Critics Association announced their best of 2012 yesterday. Leading with 4 awards is Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere. Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty was...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Awards $220,000 in Grants to Women Filmmakers
Chicken & Egg Pictures, one of our favorite nonprofits supporting women filmmakers, announced $220,000 in grant funds to 25 documentaries directed by women. And while we usually...
Interview with Abbie Cornish – Star of The Girl
Abbie Cornish is one of the most talented and interesting young women working in film today. She was introduced to the world in Cate Shortland's Sommersault but broke through in Jane...
Golden Globe Noms Out But Who Cares We’ve Got a Video With Tina and Amy
I kind of think that the awards will be the after story of this year's Golden Globe ceremony which is scheduled for Janaury 13. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are already acting as awesome golden...
No Women Directors Included in First Seven Films in 2013 Berlin International Film Festival
The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival has just announced the first six films in their competition line up. Thus far, it’s not looking good for women. Of the 7 films announced...
Trailer Watch: Blancanieves (Spain’s Oscar submission)
Spain's Oscar submission, Blancanieves, is a revisioning of the classic fairy tale Snow White. This iteration set in 1920's Spain, centers around a young female bullfighter, Carmen (Macarena...
The NAACP Image Awards Nominations Ignore Ava DuVernay
Dear Nominators of the NAACP Image Awards: With all due respect, what the fuck were you thinking? It's 6am here on the east coast and I am finally getting to read the nominations for the 44th...
Guest Interview: ‘Flight’ Actress Kelly Reilly On Playing A Heroine On Heroin
Flight, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington, offers a harrowing and honest portrait of addiction. Washington stars as Whip, a brilliant airline pilot who suffers from a...
Trailer Watch: The Girl – Starring Abbie Cornish
Abbie Cornish stars in The Girl, as a young mother, Ashley, who loses custody of her young son because of a lack of money. When she decides to smuggle immigrants over the border for money, things...
Angelina Jolie Wields Power over Salt 2 Script
Sony is reportedly negotiating with Becky Johnston to take over writing duties for Salt 2. Jolie has been in talks to reprise her role as a CIA agent turned Russian sleeper cell agent. In 2011,...
‘Free to Be You and Me’ Celebrates 40th Anniversary
The iconic “Free to Be You and Me,” from Marlo Thomas is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The song, TV show and book was a staple for many growing up, celebrating our differences and to...
Answer of the Day: Shonda Rhimes on Why She Has Many Gay Characters on Her Shows
Shonda Rhimes got asked this question from a clearly idiotic viewer and being Shonda Rhimes she took the opportunity to use the question to answer a much larger societal question. Question: love...
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics and AFI Announce Picks of 2012
We are officially in the center of awards season and yesterday both the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association and the American Film Institute announced their winners in film (AFI also...
Trailer Watch: I, Anna – Starring Charlotte Rampling
Based on the novel by Elsa Lewin, I, Anna follows Anna (the great Charlotte Rampling) who gets entangled in the middle of a murder case and falls for the lead detective (Gabriel Byrne). I, Anna is...
Variety Announces 10 Directors and Screenwriters to Watch, 4 are Women
Variety announced 10 directors and screenwriters to watch for the upcoming year. Out of the 20, 4 women were included, 2 for each. The directors will be profiled in the January 3rd issue of...
Zero Dark Thirty and Emmanuelle Riva Win Big with Critics Over the Weekend
The year end awards keep rolling in. The Boston Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online and Los Angeles Film Critics all announced their winners over the weekend. Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark...
UK’s Women in Film and Television Awards Honors 15 Women
At the U.K.’s 22nd annual Women in Film and Television Awards, fifteen women were honored from all aspects of television and film. Amongst the winners were Clare Balding, a sports presenter,...
TV Link Roundup: December 10
Here's some of the women-centric television news that we didn't get the chance to cover last week. Molly Ringwald Developing John Hughes–esque Lifetime Drama...
Film Link Round Up: December 8
Here's some of the women-centric film news that we thought people should know about: Jane Goldman to Write 'Pinocchio' for Robert Downey Jr. and Tim Burton (The Hollywood...
If Women Ran Hollywood…
If women ran Hollywood is a question worth pondering and one we often do here at Women and Hollywood. Apparently it’s been a question on the minds of those over at The Hollywood Reporter, so...
Amy Herzog Receives 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award
The New York Times awarded their 2012 Outstanding Playwright Award to Amy Herzog for her play After the Revolution. After the Revolution, an off-Broadway hit, follows an extremely...
Zero Dark Thirty Wins Big with the National Board of Review
Kathryn Bigelow is on a roll. After receiving Best Director, Best Film and Best Cinematography (for Greig Fraser) for Zero Dark Thirty from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday, the film...
Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors
The happy glow has still not worn off the news that women directors have achieved gender parity in the US dramatic and documentary competitions. (But we must also remember that women are still...