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Women Leading the Way in NBC Universal DreamWorks Merger
NBC Universal has announced the new structure for their senior management team for their acquisition of DreamWorks Animation and women are taking some important roles. As TheWrap reported, Bonnie...
“Toni Erdmann” and “Suffragette” Recommended for EFA Nominations
The nominations for the 29th European Film Awards won’t be revealed until November, but the 50 films recommended for nomination have been announced. Eleven of the titles, or 22 percent, are...
Watch: “Pitch” Inspires Kids to Believe Women Can Do Anything
If you see it, you can dream it, and you can become it. So it will come as no surprise when, after “Pitch” premieres on Fox on September 22, more little girls everywhere will want to start...
Renee Zellweger Talks Aging, Beauty, and Power
Oscar winner Renee Zellweger recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter for a wide-ranging, in-depth interview in anticipation of her eagerly awaited reprisal of her most beloved role. “Bridget...
First Project from Alicia Vikander’s Vikarious Productions Begins Filming
Production has begun on the first film to come out of Oscar winner Alicia Vikander’s new company Vikarious Productions. “Euphoria,” the English-language directorial debut of Swedish writer and...
Trailer Watch: Kate Winslet Designs Fabulous Revenge in “The Dressmaker”
Revenge is best served while wearing a fabulous dress. Kate Winslet stars as Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage in the Australian dark comedy “The Dressmaker,” from director Jocelyn Moorhouse. Tilly is...
Emmanuelle Bercot’s “150 Milligrams” to Open San Sebastian Film Fest
French writer-director-actress Emmanuelle Bercot’s “150 Milligrams” will open the 2016 San Sebastian Film Festival, Variety reports. The drama will kick off the 64th edition of the fest...
Trailer Watch: Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” 25th Anniversary Remaster
“Daughters of the Dust” Julie Dash’s landmark film “Daughters of the Dust” has been remastered and a new trailer has just been released in anticipation of the film’s 25th anniversary...
Bias and Stereotypes Hold Women Back from Theater Leadership Positions
Why are so few women in top leadership positions in theaters and how can these numbers improve? HowlRound, a commons by and for people who make performance, has shared new research seeking answers...
New BBC Film Poll Sorely Lacking Both Women Directors and Critics
BBC Culture has released a list titled “The 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films,” for which it polled 177 film critics from around the world. The resulting list of films is unsurprisingly,...
Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaHa Comedy Platform Launches “Cannabis Moms Club”
Elizabeth Banks’ comedy platform WhoHaHa has launched a new web series called “Cannabis Moms Club,” about stay-at-home moms who love smoking weed. “Cannabis Moms Club” was created by Kai...
Women and Hollywood is Hiring a Social Media Intern
The Women and Hollywood team is looking for a new Social Media intern. The internship will begin October 1, 2016. The intern will be responsible for helping to grow and nurture the Women and...
Joan Collins and Pauline Collins Road Comedy Gets International Distribution
“The Time of Their Lives,” the road trip comedy starring Joan Collins and Pauline Collins, has received distribution via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the U.K., Australia, France, and...
Cannes Hit “Toni Erdmann” Wins 2016 Fipresci Grand Prix
German writer-director Maren Ade just made history. Her newest film, Cannes hit “Toni Erdmann,” has been awarded the 2016 International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) Grand Prix for best...
Former CBS Boss Nina Tassler Working with Liz Tigelaar on Showtime Series
Former CBS Entertainment chair Nina Tassler is developing a series for Showtime, Variety reports. Less than one year after leaving CBS, Tassler has “The Middlesteins” in the works at Showtime....
“Anne of Green Gables” Series Coming to Netflix
Your favorite loquacious redhead is coming to Netflix. The streaming service has picked up “Anne,” an eight-episode series based on Canadian author L.M. Montgomery’s much-loved “Anne of...
Trailer Watch: “Audrie & Daisy” Doc Tackles Sex Crimes and Cyber Bulling
Netflix has released a heartbreaking trailer for “Audrie & Daisy.” The documentary chronicles the lives of two underage teen girls in the aftermath of being sexually assaulted and having the...
How Alpha Violet Supports Female Talent
Virginie Devesa, the co-head of the Paris-based sales agency Alpha Violet, is at the Locarno Film Festival this week in search of new filmmaking voices and has her eye out for films made by women....
Trailer Watch: Halle Berry is On a Mission to Save Her Son in “Kidnap”
Don’t mess with a mom and her minivan. In “Kidnap,” Oscar winner Halle Berry plays Karla McCoy, a woman determined to find her son after he’s kidnapped from a park. A new trailer for the...
Spain’s Oscar Short-List: Two of Three Films are Directed by Women
Spain won’t announce its Academy Award candidate until September 7, but the country has revealed their short-list of contenders, and two of the three films are directed by women: Iciar Bollain’s...
Watch Today: Women’s Leadership in Theater Conference Live Stream
The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco is hosting a Women’s Leadership Conference today that you can watch live. The conference, as BroadwayWorld reports, “emerged from a...
Zooey Deschanel Directing “New Girl” Season Six Premiere
Zooey Deschanel, star of Fox’s “New Girl,” will be making her directorial debut by helming the season premiere of the comedy, now heading into its sixth season. As Entertainment Weekly...
Melora Hardin To Star in Freeform Pilot “Issues”
Melora Hardin, who played Tammy Cashman on “Transparent,” is now set for the Freeform pilot “Issues,” Deadline reports. The pilot, created by Sarah Watson (“Parenthood”), “was...
Mira Nair, Freida Pinto, and Cheryl Boone Isaacs to Speak at TIFF Conference
The Toronto International Film Festival Industry Conference has announced further details about its 2016 lineup. While TIFF is best known for its high-profile film screenings, the festival also...
Trailer Watch: “Quit Staring At My Plate” Takes a Woman to Her Breaking Point
Croatian director Hana Jusic’s debut feature, “Quit Staring At My Plate,” will play in competition the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. The new trailer for the film highlights...
Kristen Stewart Gets Candid About Anxiety and Relationships
Having started acting at nine years old, Kristen Stewart has had to grow up in the public eye. That could give anyone anxiety, but the pressures placed on young women in particular can absolutely...
Ellen Page and Kate Mara to Star in Forbidden Romance “Mercy”
Ellen Page (“Freeheld”) and Kate Mara (“House of Cards”) are teaming up for Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer’s “Mercy,” Variety reports. The actresses will also produce the romantic...
Trailer Watch: “Girl Asleep” Captures Teenage Angst and Imagination
Being a teenager is seriously rough, and the filmmaking debut of theater director Rosemary Myers captures the angst perfectly in the new trailer for “Girl Asleep.” The Australian comedy stars...
San Francisco Film Society Announces Doc Film Fund Finalists
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the ten finalists for the 2016 SFFS Documentary Film Fund awards, which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Six of the ten projects...
All Eight Disney/ABC Diversity Program Writers Get Staff Jobs
All eight writers selected for the year-long Disney|ABC Writing Program have secured staff jobs on series for the 2016–17 television season, Shadow and Act reports. Three of the writers are women:...
Kathryn Bigelow to Be Honored by LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will honor Kathryn Bigelow for her illustrious career at its sixth annual Art + Film Gala this fall. Bigelow made history in 2010 when she became the first...
“Hidden Figures” Eyes Potential Awards Season Qualifying Run
Good news for fans of female-centric movies, inclusive casts, and the history of space travel: Deadline reports that “Hidden Figures,” the true story of the black women involved in the space...
Trailer Watch: Cynthia Nixon Portrays Emily Dickinson’s “Quiet Passion”
Prepare to see Miranda Hobbes as you’ve never seen her before. A trailer has been released for “A Quiet Passion,” featuring former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon as Emily...
New DGA Study on First-Time TV Directors Reveals Only 19% Were Women
Credit: DGA The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has released the results of an annual study on the gender and ethnic diversity of directors who received their first assignments in episodic TV and...
Sofia Vergara Joins the Cast of Whitney Cummings’ Directorial Debut
Sofia Vergara will star in “The Female Brain,” comedian Whitney Cummings’ directorial debut. Comingsoon.net has reported that the ensemble cast for the film will include the Emmy-nominated...
Trailer Watch: “Generation Startup” Shows the Harsh Realities of Entrepreneurship
90 percent of startups fail, but the subjects of Cynthia Wade and Cheryl Miller Houser’s documentary “Generation Startup” are trying to be some of the few that succeed. The new doc follows six...
Great Expectations: August Web Series and VOD Picks
“Aroha Bridge” It’s funny-in-a-sad-way to think about how your plans change as you grow up. Remember your goals when you were a high school student? An undergrad? A fresh-out-of-college young...
Ava DuVernay Talks Making History
Ava DuVernay: THR “Selma” director Ava DuVernay cannot be stopped. No one is going to tell her what to do. And thank goodness. Not only does the director have an abundance of projects coming up,...
Helen McCrory to Star in Six-Part Political Thriller
Helen McCrory has signed on to star in “Fearless,” a six-part series from “Homeland” writer and EP Patrick Harbinson. The project is being produced by Mammoth Screen for ITV and is scheduled...
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman Reteam for Another Book Adaptation
Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are set to join forces again, Deadline reports. Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard production banner and Kidman’s Blossom Films have optioned the...
Nia Long Joins Idina Menzel for Lifetime’s “Beaches” Remake
Nia Long is set to join Idina Menzel in Lifetime’s remake of “Beaches,” Deadline reports. Long will play Hillary to Menzel’s CC. The 1988 original starred Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey...
Lizzy Caplan to Topline Dark Comedy “Friend of Bill”
“Masters of Sex” star Lizzy Caplan has signed on to topline “Friend of Bill,” a dark comedy directed by Amy Rice (“By the People: The Election of Barack Obama”). The script, penned by...
Trailer Watch: “American Honey” Wants You to “Dream Baby Dream”
A new trailer for Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey” has been released, and it features Bruce Springsteen’s “Dream Baby Dream” and new voiceover narration describing the...
The Taint on “The Birth of a Nation”
This past Friday, the public learned (at least the public that was paying attention on a steamy August Friday) that Nate Parker, the most recent Sundance Institute Vanguard winner, and writer and...
Soledad O’Brien Taking Over “Matter of Fact” Political Magazine Series
Soledad O’Brien is taking over in the second season of political magazine show “Matter of Fact,” Variety reports. She’ll step in as an anchor and producer, and the program will be renamed...
TIFF Announces More Galas and Special Presentations
The Toronto International Film Festival will host the World Premiere of Emmanuelle Bercot’s “150 Milligrams.” The fest continues to gradually roll out its complete slate, and the French...
Eva Longoria Signs Deal with Universal
Eva Longoria has signed a two-year, first-look deal with Universal Pictures for her company UnbelEVAble Entertainment, Deadline reports. The first project on the slate is “My Daughter’s...
Amazon Acquires Black List Script About Journalist Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell: James E. Purdy/ Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Library of Congress A biopic about Ida Tarbell is on the way. Amazon has acquired “Ida Tarbell,” a 2015 Black List script about the pioneering...
Anna Paquin Joins Netflix’s “Alias Grace”
Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actress Anna Paquin (“The Piano,” “True Blood”) is joining the Netflix miniseries “Alias Grace,” based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the...
Lauren Palmigiano to Direct Elizabeth Banks-Produced “White Girl Problems”
“Funny or Die” writer Lauren Palmigiano has signed on to make her feature directorial debut with Lionsgate’s “White Girl Problems,” Variety reports. The project is produced by Elizabeth...
Jill Soloway Bringing a Musical Comedy to Amazon
Jill Soloway will executive produce a musical comedy for Amazon, The Hollywood Reporter writes. The series will follow “a woman’s search for love and self-discovery in Los Angeles.” The idea...