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Viola Davis and Debra Martin Chase to Produce Legal Drama About County Prosecutor Kym Worthy
TNT is reportedly developing a legal drama from “How to Get Away with Murder” star Viola Davis. The Emmy-winning actress is executive producing “Conviction” alongside Debra Martin Chase...
Smile, Baby: How ‘The Catch’ Does Mireille Enos Wrong
I have a simple litmus test for female-centric shows and movies that almost never steers me wrong. It sounds petty, but it’s very revealing: Does the main character wear impractical footwear in...
Trailer Watch: ‘Love & Friendship’ Re-Teams ‘Disco’ Darlings Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny
Maybe this will be like “Last Days of Disco” but with corsets and manners?Chloe Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale have teamed up again with their “Disco” director Whit Stillman for “Love &...
20 Films By Women We Hope to See at Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has been notoriously unkind to women. Between enforcing a ludicrous rule prohibiting women from wearing flats on the red carpet, to its usually low number of female...
Zoe Kravitz Takes a Stand For Inclusivity in Hollywood
Remember when Zoe Kravitz was denied an audition for a minor role in “The Dark Knight Rises” because casting wasn’t “going urban”? That’s just one egregious example of Hollywood...
Gina Prince-Bythewood To Direct and Co-Write ‘An Untamed State,’ Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood is re-teaming with her leading lady from 2014’s “Beyond the Lights” to bring Roxane Gay’s debut novel to the big screen. Prince-Bythewood will direct...
Trailer Watch: Diane Kruger Murders Her Husband and Hits the Road in Fabienne Berthaud’s ‘Sky’
Babies don’t save marriages, and in “Sky,” a vacation can’t either. A trailer has arrived for writer-director Fabienne Berthaud’s latest film. The drama centers on a French couple who...
Valérie Donzelli Will Preside Over Critics’ Week Jury at Cannes
French director and actress Valérie Donzelli will preside over the Critics’ Week jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Donzelli’s own film, the autobiographical “Declaration of War,”...
Trailer Watch: Bridget Has Baby Daddy Drama in ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’
Carey Mulligan in Negotiations to Star in New Dee Rees Drama
“Suffragette” star Carey Mulligan is in negotiations to take the lead in another period drama. The Oscar nominee is circling Dee Rees’s indie film “Mudbound,” set in post-World War II...
Emma Stone Will Play Rosemary Kennedy in ‘Letters From Rosemary’
Emma Stone has reportedly signed on to star in Black List script “Letters From Rosemary.” The story follows the life of Rose Marie “Rosemary” Kennedy, the eldest sister of President John F....
Gwendoline Christie Joins Elisabeth Moss for Season 2 of Jane Campion’s ‘Top of the Lake’
The force is strong with “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie — and “Top of the Lake” fans. Hot off her big screen success with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Christie will...
Ava DuVernay Will Write and Direct HBO’s ‘The Battle of Versailles’
“Selma” director and Array (formerly AFFRM) founder Ava DuVernay will co-write and direct HBO’s “The Battle of Versailles.” While the project may sound like a war epic, the film is...
Tribeca Film Festival Announces Tribeca Talks Lineup with Daring Women Summit
The Tribeca Film Festival has released the lineup for its Tribeca Talks series. The festival will run from April 13–24 this year. New to this year’s festival are Tribeca Talks: Storytellers,...
Agunda Okeyo Announces ‘Sisters of Comedy’ Series at Caroline’s
Writer, filmmaker and activist Agunda Okeyo has announced a new monthly production called “Sisters of Comedy,” which will begin at Caroline’s on Broadway on April 7. The inaugural evening will...
Trailer Watch: Sharon and Rob Are Hilarious Parents in ‘Catastrophe’ Season 2
“What’s going on with you crazy bitches?” This is how Sharon (Sharon Horgan, “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”) greets a mommy group at the playground in a preview for...
New Doc About Joan Rivers to Air on PBS
A new documentary about Joan Rivers is set to premiere on New York’s PBS WNET Thirteen. The late comedian was the subject of Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern’s 2010 critically acclaimed doc...
Record-Breaking Boxer Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields’ Life Rights Nabbed for Feature Film
It’s about time we had a female “Rocky,” and who better to base such a film on than an actual record-breaking female boxer? Universal and Michael De Luca Productions are teaming together to...
Naomi Watts and Jessica Lange to Star in New Gia Coppola Film
Naomi Watts and Jessica Lange are teaming up to star in Gia Coppola’s “The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll.” The indie drama is based on Jean Nathan’s 2004 nonfiction book of the same...
Trailer Watch: A Bronze Medal Isn’t Enough For This ‘Veep’
Leave it to Julia Louis-Dreyfus to ask a room full men how they’d choose between their “cock and balls.” But what else can we expect from one of the brassiest female-led comedies on...
Listen: Women and Hollywood Podcast #25 — ‘Consumed’ Star, Co-Writer and Producer Zoe Lister-Jones
Women and Hollywood spoke with the star, co-writer and producer of “Consumed,” Zoe Lister-Jones. The film addresses a hot topic — Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Typically we see...
Kering and Cannes Film Festival Will Present Second ‘Women in Motion’ Program
Kering, the high-end French luxury goods holding company, will once again present the “Women in Motion” Program at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The program launched at last year’s...
Weekly Update for March 18: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Divergent Series: Allegiant The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, “Allegiant” takes Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo...
Happy Friday: Watch Emma Watson Beatbox For Gender Equality
Emma Watson continues to work her magic. The “Harry Potter” alum plans to take a year off from acting but she’s making amazing use of her time away from Hollywood: The UN Women Goodwill...
Quote of the Day: Melissa McCarthy Says ‘It’s Incredibly Important’ To Have More Women Directing
At a press conference for her upcoming comedy, “The Boss,” actress Melissa McCarthy emphasized the need for more female filmmakers in Hollywood. “I think it’s incredibly important,” she...
The Mission to Get Female Composers More Visibility
Women are underrepresented in many positions in the film industry, and while the press is finally starting to pay attention to the unacceptable numbers of films by and about women, there hasn’t...
Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer to Star in Guillermo del Toro Cold War Drama
Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer are headed for Guillermo del Toro’s next project, a Cold War drama set in 1963. According to Deadline, Hawkins is set to star and Spencer is in talks to join the...
‘Heathers’ Anthology Series is Coming to TV
How very. The bolder, crasser older sister of 2004’s “Mean Girls” is coming to television. Beloved 80s cult classic “Heathers” is being made into an anthology series. TV Land ordered the...
Playwright of the Moment: Danai Gurira Has Two Plays Running in NYC
If you’re only familiar with Danai Gurira from her role as Michonne on “The Walking Dead,” AMC’s hit zombie apocalypse drama, it’s time to familiarize yourself with her other works, namely...
‘The Middle’ Star Eden Sher Is Writing a Book for Kids
Get your Kleenex ready and fire up your imagination because it’s about to get “Emotionary.” “The Middle” star Eden Sher has signed a book deal with Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young...
Patricia Riggen’s ‘Miracles From Heaven’ Opens with Promising Numbers
Without fanfare or bluster, Patricia Riggen has forged an impressive path as a woman director. The Mexican filmmaker helmed two studio films released within six months of each other, and it looks...
The Secret Lives of Women: March 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
This month’s crowdfunding picks include a number of intriguing documentaries, plus two psychological thrillers. But what all these films have in common is their mission to bring to light the lives...
Trailer Watch: Amy Schumer Can’t Help But Expose Herself in ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Season 4
There’s no denying that Amy Schumer was practically everywhere in 2015. Season 3 of her Comedy Central series “Inside Amy Schumer” was a hit. It won Outstanding Variety Sketch Comedy Series at...
Fierce, Funny and Feminist: Nora Ephron in ‘Everything is Copy’
The new HBO documentary about the inimitable Nora Ephron is a lovely, wide-ranging portrait, with as many high-profile talking heads as you could possibly want (Meryl Streep analyzes her; Rob Reiner...
Michelle Obama Addresses Female Empowerment and Education at SXSW Panel
On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a panel at SXSW where women’s empowerment was the main focus. Joined on stage by actress Sophia Bush (Chicago P.D.), songwriter Diane Warren and...
Agnieszka Holland to Helm Psychological Thriller About a Female Killer
Agnieszka Holland has a new project in the works. The Polish director will helm the memorably titled “The Kind Worth Killing,” a psychological thriller based on a 2015 novel of the same name....
Young Women in STEM Can Win Internship at Marvel Studios
Female Avengers, assemble! Disney, Marvel Studios, Dolby Laboratories, Synchrony Bank, Broadcom MASTERS and Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of The National Academy of Sciences, are...
BFI Poll Names ‘Carol’ the Best LGBT Film of All Time
“Carol” has been named the top LGBT film of all time by a panel composed of 100 film experts. The British Film Institute conducted the poll, described as the first major critical survey of LGBT...
‘Wicked’ Passes $1 Billion Benchmark in Record Time
“Wicked” just broke a big record. The 10th-longest running production in Broadway history has officially earned more than $1 billion at the box-office, making it the third-ever show to do so....
Showtime Will Produce a Whitney Houston Documentary
Showtime Documentary Films has announced the start of a project examining the life and career of legendary singer Whitney Houston. Deadline reports that production kicked off this week. Houston was...
A Change of Culture Is Necessary for Hollywood Diversity Measures to Succeed
Yesterday, several prominent Asian-American Academy members, including Freida Lee Mock, Ang Lee, Sandra Oh and George Takei, sent a letter to the Academy’s Board of Governors protesting the...
Chelsea Handler Announces New Show’s Premiere Date with Hilarious Self-Written Note
Just how will a talk show on Netflix work? We’re about to find out. Chelsea Handler has announced, in a hilarious, self-written press release, that her new show will premiere on May 11 on the...
TV Vet Marti Noxon to Make Big Screen Directorial Debut
Marti Noxon has one helluva TV career, and now the writer-producer-director is poised to make her mark on the big screen. The “UnReal” co-creator has signed on to make her feature directorial...
San Francisco Film Society Announces Films in Competition for Golden Gate Awards, 35% Female-Helmed
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the films in competition for the Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature Golden Gate Awards, which will be presented at the San Francisco International...
Jodie Foster’s ‘Money Monster’ to Screen at Cannes
It’s looking as though Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster” will make its world premiere at Cannes. The drama, starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, hasn’t officially been confirmed as part...
‘Zoo’ Writer Rebekah F. Smith Will Pen Big Screen Adaptation of ‘Flawed’
The Warner Bros. adaptation of Cecelia Ahern’s novel “Flawed” is moving forward, with “Zoo” writer Rebekah F. Smith penning the script, according to Variety. “Flawed” is the first Young...
Women Dominate Inaugural Industry Academy International
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Locarno International Film Festival have announced the participants the inaugural Industry Academy International U.S. and the group includes eight women out...
Naomi Kawase to Head Cinefondation and Short Film Jury at Cannes
The youngest-ever winner of the Camera d’Or continues to make waves at the Cannes Film Festival. Naomi Kawase has been named as the president of both the Cinefondation section and Short Film...
Documentarian Liz Garbus in Talks to Direct Her First Narrative Feature
Fresh off of the Academy Awards, where she was nominated for Best Documentary Feature for “What Happened, Miss Simone?” director Liz Garbus may soon make the switch to narrative film...
Trailer Watch: ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ is Dark and Twisty
Stand aside, Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” is a little bit weirder, a little bit darker and features the wondrous Eva Green...
Cannes Film Festival – 2015
The Cannes festival began with a meeting on May 18 organized by the Créteil Women’s Film Festival and the Society of Dramatic Authors (SACD) entitled “Women Make Great Movies: Strategies for...