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Trailer Watch: Marion Cotillard Has ‘Two Days, One Night’ to Get Her Job Back
Oscar winner Marion Cotillard has a history of delivering strong performances in unconventional projects. Two Days, One Night happily seems to continue that trend. The film, and Cotillard’s acting...
Chicken & Egg to Honor Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Lesli Klainberg and Eugene Hernandez
Chicken & Egg Pictures, the only nonprofit film fund dedicated to women’s documentaries, will present its 2014 Good Egg Award to Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Lesli Klainberg and Eugene...
Desiree Akhavan’s ‘Appropriate Behavior’ Finds Distribution
We’ve been waiting for Desiree Akhavan’s wry, adventurous debut, Appropriate Behavior, to be released since we put the Sundance favorite on our “Most Anticipated Films of 2014” list back in...
Diane Keaton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Zurich Film Festival
Diane Keaton will receive the Golden Icon award at this year’s Zurich Film Festival for her career achievements. Most associated with her Oscar-winning role as the title character in Annie Hall,...
Heather Graham to Write, Direct, and Star in Her Own Movie
Heather Graham made headlines a couple of days ago (on industry news sites, anyway) when she departed a Neil LaBute play three days after a press meet-and-greet. Buried in that story, though, is...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Kent’s Sundance Favorite ‘The Babadook’
When it debuted at Sundance this year, writer-director Jennifer Kent’s debut, The Babadook, became one of the festival’s breakout hits, with critics praising the film as a “flat-out...
Gloria Estefan Musical Coming to Broadway in 2015
Orange is the New Black Wins Big at Creative Emmys
Orange is the New Black took home three trophies at last night’s Creative Arts Emmys, including an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy award for Uzo Aduba, who plays Suzanne, AKA “Crazy...
Ballet Dancer Misty Copeland to Get Biopic
The recent release of a fifth installment in the Step Up franchise indicates that audiences remain captivated by the art of dance and by those who are doing the dancing. In what promises to be a...
Thandie Newton Has DirecTV Show Renewed, Joins HBO Drama
Hollywood took an awful long time recognizing Thandie Newton’s talent, but better late than never, I suppose. Newton recently became one of the small screen’s busiest actresses when her DirecTV...
Weekly Update for August 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Abuse of Weakness — Written and Directed by Catherine Breillat Isabelle Huppert stars as Maud, a film director who one morning wakes up and cannot feel one side of...
Venice Film Fest to Honor Frances McDormand
The Venice International Film Festival (August 27-September 6) will celebrate Frances McDormand’s career by bestowing the 2014 Personal Tribute to Visionary Talent Award to the Fargo actress....
‘Outlander’ Renewed After One Episode
After pulling in more than 5 million viewers — and just as many men as women — the small-screen adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s beloved Outlander series has been renewed for a second...
Guest Post: Film Fatales Give Back: The Importance of Community Outreach
Film Fatales is a collective of female writers/directors who meet regularly to support each other’s work and promote the creation of more films by and about women. Several of us recently...
Trailer Watch: Acrobats Fly and Crash in ‘Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs Gravity’
“Part of the deal is, you walk into the room and you agree to get hurt. You might get a little hurt.” That’s the unapologetic attitude extreme choreographer Elizabeth Streb takes with her...
Only Three Women-Directed Films Scheduled for NYFF’s Main Slate
The Impossible Girl: ‘Doctor Who’ and the Glass Ceiling
Chelsea Handler Planning a Live, Star-Studded Bash for Her Series Finale
The late night host will depart the airwaves on Tuesday, August 26 — and she’s determined to go out with a bang. Chelsea Hander, who signed a Netflix deal for four “docu-comedy”...
‘Abuse of Weakness’ Director Catherine Breillat on How to Blackmail Isabelle Huppert Into Starring in Your Film
With her latest project, French auteur Catherine Breillat follows up brilliantly on her last two fairy-tale films, Bluebeard (2009) and The Sleeping Beauty (2010). The semi-autobiographical Abuse of...
Second Mary Shelley Biopic to Star Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner
There are now officially two Mary Shelley biopics in the works, both focusing on the young author’s work of writing Frankenstein and her romance with the older poet Percy Shelley (who would later...
Trailer Watch: US Trailer for Juliette Binoche’s 1,000 Times Goodnight
RIP: Lauren Bacall — Check out Some Career Highlights
Toronto Film Fest Announces More Women-Directed Films
When the 39th Toronto International Film Festival (September 4–14) released its first two rounds of programming at this year’s events, we were initially unimpressed by the paltry representation...
Jennifer Lawrence Close to Starring in Adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, is inching closer to signing Jennifer Lawrence to the big-screen adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle. Walls’ best-selling 2005 memoir...
Outlander Pilot Drew Male and Female Viewers in Equal Numbers — And Lots of Them
If there was any question whether Outlander’s reputation as a female-centric historical bodice ripper would attract a lopsided audience, the answer is a resounding no. To quote Orange is the New...
Lyle Director Stewart Thorndike on Making the Lesbian Version of Rosemary’s Baby and the Need for Feminist Horror
You’veheard the story before: A pregnant woman suspects her neighbors are part of aSatanic cult, and they want her unborn child. As her paranoia grows, so doesthe danger. But is she truly the...
Outreach Coordinator Position Available
Position Summary The Athena Film Festival is seeking an outgoing and creative individual to serve as the Outreach Coordinator for the 2015 Festival (Feb. 5–8, 2015). The Outreach Coordinator works...
Crosspost: Where’s Gamora?
The following is crossposted from the author’s site with her permission. After seeing Guardians of the Galaxy, my four-year-old daughter wanted a Gamora action figurine and my son wanted...
Does Amazon Already Have a Female Creator Problem?
Amazon announced today five new pilots that it plans to debut at the end of the month. Though the two dramas and three comedies have little in common, they do share one similarity — they’re...
Trailer Watch: I Am Eleven is a Charming Look at Being Between Childhood and Adolescence
Australian documentarian Genevieve Bailey found herself dispirited working for a newspaper as a college student, reading bad news day after day. She worried especially about how that bad news would...
Geena Davis Checks Into Grey’s Anatomy
Oscar winner Geena Davis has joined Grey’s Anatomy for its 11th season. Davis’ last series television appearance was as the President in Commander in Chief. Davis will reportedly enjoy a...
Trailer Watch: Kristen Stewart Heads to Guantanamo in Camp X-Ray
Since the end of Twilight, Kristen Stewart has returned to her indie roots for the next chapter of her career. That seems like a good move for her, since her best notices were always in...
Weekly Update for August 8: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening The Maid’s Room In this examination of morality, racism, and privilege, Drina (Paula Garces), a young Colombian immigrant, accepts a position as maid to the wealthy...
Watch: Actual Superheroine Can’t Get a Movie Made About Her in Hollywood
Angelfire is a superheroine who knows her worth. And that worth? The center spotlight in a movie all about her — not as a sidekick, a recurring pair of boobs, or a sacrificial love interest to...
John Oliver’s Search for New Voices in Late Night
John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight isn’t like much else on TV — because it’s better than most things on TV. In the wake of his critical and viral success, Oliver revealed that he...
Happy Friday: Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks Attempts to Make It in the Modern Office
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Director Mitra Farahani on Legendary Painter Bahman Mohassess and the Artist’s Plight in Iran
Nakedlimbs, tangled, dancing; gaping mouths; and sightless eyes — much of Iranianartist Bahman Mohassess’ work strikes the first-time viewer alternately as acelebration of the human...
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman Team Up to Tell Big Little Lies
Ever wonder what kind of moms the Heathers might have grown up to be? Australian writer Liane Moriarty’s bestselling, critically acclaimed comic novel Big Little Lies seems to imagine precisely...
Guest Post: One for the Girls: Women Directors Group Spreads to London
This year the news has been bad for UK female film directors. Statistics have revealed, in article after article, the depressingly low numbers of women directing feature films. I look at the slates...
Jenji Kohan Talks Equal Pay and Being Told Men Are Funnier
There is an awesome profile in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter on Jenji Kohan, the creator and showrunner of Orange is the New Black. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say...
Only 2 of the 25 Top-Earning Indies This Year Directed by Women
Things are supposed to be easier for female narrative directors in the indie world, but that just often isn’t the case. Peter Knegt published a list of the 25 top-earning indie productions of the...
The Honourable Woman: Upending the Sexy Spy Drama
Hunger Games Studio Lionsgate Options Another Potential Female-Led YA Blockbuster
A thirteen-year-old girl becomes the center of world attention when she’s caught on tape able to miracle-heal in novelist Jason Mott’s The Wonder of All Things. Though the book won’t be...
Study: Latina Women Most Likely to Be Naked On Screen
A new study spearheaded by Dr. Stacy L. Smith at USC’s Annenberg School confirms what we already know: Hollywood sucks at portraying racial diversity. But here’s a surprise: It doesn’t suck...
Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein to Finish One of Nora Ephron’s Last Scripts
Carrie Brownstein has been tapped to posthumously complete one of Nora Ephron’s last projects, a big-screen adaptation of the British miniseries Lost in Austen. The proposed film, which centers on...
Katharine Hepburn Biopic in the Works
Katharine Hepburn starred in some of the best films Hollywood has ever made, but the film industry has thus far only made her an accessory in stories about men, namely those of producer David O....
Cheryl Boone Isaacs Re-Elected as Academy President
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the third female and first black president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has been elected for a second year-long term. Boone Isaacs received that vote of...
Quote of the Day: Christina Hendricks: “There’s Sexual Harassment at Work Every Single Day” in Hollywood
A new interview with Christina Hendricks in The Guardian is making the rounds because of the (schadenfreude-tastic) revelation that the actress was dropped by her agency when she signed up to play...
Frozen Director Jennifer Lee to Adapt A Wrinkle in Time
Writer-director Jennifer Lee has finally announced her first post-Frozen project: an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved sci-fi children’s classic A Wrinkle in Time for Disney. At this...
Keke Palmer to Become Broadway’s First Black Cinderella
After making entertainment history as television’s youngest-ever talk-show host, 20-year-old Keke Palmer will set another record as Broadway’s first black Cinderella in Rodgers and...
An Open Letter to Sony Chief Amy Pascal: Here’s Your Opportunity to Be a Leader for Women
Dear Amy Pascal, I read the exciting news yesterday that your studio, Sony, will be making a female superhero movie set in the Spider-Man universe. This is great news for those of us who have been...