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Director Lynne Ramsay Leaves Jane Got a Gun Just As Production Was to Begin
Deadline reported yesterday that director Lynne Ramsay had quit Jane Got a Gun which is to star Natalie Portman the morning production was to have begun — Tuesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This...
Watch This: Veep Season 2 Trailer
We here at Women and Hollywood are huge fans of the hilarious Julia Louis-Dreyfus and are very excited for the return of Veep, a smart, prickly and very funny look at politics through the eyes of the...
movieScope Launches Women in Film Issue
In super cool news, movieScope, a magazine looking at the film industry, has launched their inaugural Women in Film issue. The 64 page, March/April 2013 issue will look at women working in all...
So That’s The Problem – We Just All Missed the Joke
Oscar producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan just keep on sticking their feet in their mouth. As they collected an award for Smash at the GLAAD awards on Saturday night in NYC, they spoke out in...
Films Targeting Women Dominate the Box Office This Weekend
Maybe we can call this a bit of poetic justice but it looks like the big boys are floundering and the girls are on the rise. This weekend, the female targeted, yet not very feminist, Oz –...
Directors UK and BBC Studying Lack of Women Directors
Directors UK and the BBC are working together to investigate the lack of women directors in television. Talent executive, Jo Hatley, will lead the research working with internal commissioners,...
Trailer Watch: Nurse Jackie – Season Five
Here’s the trailer for season five of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie starring the terrific Edie Falco. This season will be the first without showrunners and creators Liz Brixius and Nancy Wallem...
Interview with Jennifer Fox, Director, Producer and Subject of Flying: Confessions of a Free Women
Originally published on May 12, 2008. Fox’s series Confessions of a Free Woman follows Fox’s personal journey around the globe to discover what it means to be a woman today. While...
Veronica Mars Movie Reaches $2 Million Kickstarter Goal
The message today is: never underestimate the power of fandom. After series creator, Rob Thomas, launched the Veronica Mars Kickstarter movie fund on March 13th with a $2 million goal and an...
Weekly Update March 15: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Ginger and Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter After the dust settles, Ginger and Rosa is going to turn out to be one of my the highlights of...
Want to Help Women and Hollywood Grow? Outreach and Editing Gigs Available
Here’s some great news. Women and Hollywood has received a grant to help grow our work. For all of you who read the site regularly, you know that the goal of the work of Women and...
SXSW Announces Film Festival Winners
I’ve been here on the ground at SXSW for Women and Hollywood and have had the opportunity to see some incredible films, many of which I’m so pleased to say won awards. Destin Daniel...
Can Women in Hollywood Lean In?
Unless you’ve been under a rock over the last week you have read an article about, heard a talk show about, and seen a panel discussion about Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In. I...
Magnolia Pictures Picks Up Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the world-wide distribution rights to Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely. Premiering at Sundance, the film, directed and written by Shelton, follows Abby...
Come Join Women and Hollywood at Events This Week in NYC
I’ll be participating in two events in NYC this week that people can attend. Both events are free. The first is Thursday evening March 14th at 7pm sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild...
Trailer Watch: Top of the Lake – a Mini-Series Directed by Jane Campion
It’s always important to note when something by Jane Campion is about to be released. Next week starts a seven part mini series Top of the Lake written and directed by Campion....
Nancy Meyers New Film To Be At Sony
There are not a lot of women who direct at the studio level. I can count them on two hands. The loss of Nora Ephron took one big name off the list, so it is always important to note when...
WIGS Announces New Season and New Series
WIGS, the number one YouTube channel for scripted drama and features with female leads, has announced new seasons for their popular shows Lauren and Blue. They have also announced a new series...
Watch This: Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women: Damsel in Distress
Watch Anita Sarkeesian’s great takedown of gendered tropes in video games in her new series, Tropes Vs. Women, a Kickstarter funded video series dedicated to analyzing the plot devices and...
Trailer Watch: Stories We Tell – Directed by Sarah Polley
Actress and now very talented director, Sarah Polley has a new documentary that premiered last fall in Toronto. Stories We Tell received a good deal of critical praise as it made its way around...
Hot Docs and Full Frame Announce 2013 Line Ups: The Women
Last week, the 2013 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival announced their special presentations line up. The festival runs from April 25-May 5 in Toronto. They are set to announce...
Tribeca Film Festival Announces Lineup Pt. 2: Women Writers
We previously focused on women-directed films in the Tribeca Film Festival lineup. There are also a huge number of women-written or co-written scripts at the festival, so we wanted to highlight their...
Watch This: The Bling Ring Teaser Trailer – Directed by Sofia Coppola
The teaser trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring has finally dropped. The film, based on true events, follows a group of teens obsesses by celebrity and the power it has in our culture who...
Women In Film 2013 Finishing Fund Taking Applications
Applications are now being accepted for Women In Film’s 2013 Finishing Fund grants. Each winning project will receive up to $15,000 in cash — in-kind and consultation grants. All...
Girl Rising – A Film Showing the Importance of Girls’ Education
Girl Rising, a film by director Richard E. Robbins, focuses on the stories of 9 girls from 9 different countries each showing the power of education and the strength of the human spirit. Each story...
Weekly Update March 8: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Electrick Children – Written and Directed by Rebecca Thomas Rachel is a rambunctious teenager from a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah. On...
Interview With Ramona S. Diaz Director of Don’t Stop Believin
Don’t Stop Believin‘ is a terrific crowd pleasing documentary of the rags to riches story of Arnel Pineda who took over as the lead singer of the rock band Journey after he was spotted on...
Trailer Watch: Frances Ha – Co-Written by and Starring Greta Gerwig
Check out the trailer for Frances Ha starring (and co-written by) Greta Gerwig and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film is about a young woman living in New York who is an aspiring...
Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2013 Lineup: Women Directors
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival announcement is fantastic for both films directed by women and written by. The festival, in its 12th year, will be hosted in locations around New York City...
Happy International Women’s Day 2013
This year for International Women’s Day I will be in Denver attending the Voices Film Festival. I will be doing a variety of events including a salon to discuss In Her Voice: Women...
Ashley Judd Speaks About Women’s Rights in D.C.
As we reported last year, rumors have been swirling about Ashley Judd running for senate against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. While Judd still won’t confirm rumors, she spoke at George...
Guest Post: Fusion Film Festival at NYU Looks Back on the State of Gender Equality in the Film Industry on its Tenth Anniversary
As was widely reported this year in the “Exploring the Barriers and Opportunities for Independent Filmmakers” study that was presented at the Sundance Film Festival, 2013 is a record year for...
Trailer Watch: What Maisie Knew Co-Written by Nancy Doyne
Based on the acclaimed Henry James novella, What Maisie Knew focuses on a young girl, Maisie (Onata Aprile) who is caught in between the bitter divorce of her parents (Julianne Moore and Steve...
The Happy Girl vs. The Cool Girl: Why People Don’t Like Anne Hathaway
People, especially women, really don’t like Anne Hathaway. This isn’t something that just started since Hathaway won her Oscar for Les Miserables last week–it’s been long...
Guest Post: DGA Women Directors Foment a Rebellion
This past Saturday, March 2, 2013, became an historic day as the DGA Women’s Steering Committee hosted the DGA Women of Action Summit in LA bringing together 150 female American directors for a...
Interview With Kristi Jacobson And Lori Silverbush, Directors of A Place At The Table
A Place At the Table is a riveting new documentary by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush that illustrates the mounting hunger crisis in the U.S. The film is not only one of the most gripping...
Trailer Watch: Eden – Directed by Megan Griffiths
Eden, directed by Megan Griffiths, is based on the true-story of Chong Kim in the 90s, who was kidnapped at 18 and held as a sex slave for two years. It shows how human trafficking happens not only...
Quvenzhane Wallis is All of Our Daughters
I thought I was done with all the Oscar postscripts but there is still have one more thing to write about. I am going to take a mulligan on not getting to this sooner, but I was off last week,...
Holland Taylor Takes on Ann Richards on Broadway
Holland Taylor, who TV audiences will know well from Two and a Half Men, is taking on a new role–Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. Taylor will star as Richards in Ann, which she...
VIDA, Women in Literary Arts Releases 2012 VIDA Count
This morning VIDA released their 2012 count of the treatment of women in literature over the last year and the results vary widly. Amy King, on behalf of VIDA was curious to see if the numbers...
One Week Out- A Last Look at the 2013 Oscars
I left town the morning after the Oscars on a much needed vacation. While I wasn’t writing last week (and a big thanks goes out to Women and Hollywood writer Kerensa Cadenas for taking...
Bonnie Franklin TV’s Feminist Single Mom Dies at 69
One Day at a Time was a show that helped define what was going on for women in the 1970s. It debuted in 1975 (and ran until 1984) and showed something no other show did at that time; it showed...
Trailer Watch: New Trailer for The Host – Starring Saoirse Ronan
Based on Stephenie Meyer’s non-Twilight novel, The Host follows Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) whose body is taken over by invading aliens (led by Diane Kruger). Instead of succumbing to the alien...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Mike White – Creator/Writer of Enlightened
Enlightened is hands down the best show that you aren’t watching. It follows Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern), a former corporate executive who post-nervous breakdown goes to a holistic rehab...
Weekly Update March 1: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Stoker – Starring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman Director Park Chan-Wook’s first English language film (fitting in well with his revenge trilogy...
6 of WGA’s 101 Greatest Screenplays Written by Women
Another list and with that another sad feeling about women being underrepresented in film. This time around it’s the Writers Guild of America’s 101 Greatest Screenplays. The list has many...
Senate Drops Zero Dark Thirty Investigation
A day after the Academy Awards and the essential shut out of Zero Dark Thirty (except for an award for Sound Editing), the Senate Intelligence Committee announced that they were dropping the...
Krysten Ritter, Margo Martindale and Melanie Lynskey Nab New Pilots
Some of our favorite underappreciated actresses have been cast in pilots for the upcoming Fall TV season. The hilarious Krysten Ritter of the dearly departed Apartment 23 has been cast as the lead in...
Women In Film International Committee Co-Sponsors Tri-City Showcase of Films by Cuban Women
The Women In Film International Committee, the Cuban Women Filmmakers Mediatheque, the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC) and the American Cinematheque are taking on a...
SXSW Watch: Improvement Club – Directed by Dayna Hanson
This year Women and Hollywood will be at SXSW. One of the films we are excited to catch is Dayna Hanson’s Improvement Club which is competing in Narrative. Hanson wrote, directed and stars in...
Trailer Watch: Hunky Dory – Starring Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver stars in Hunky Dory as a Viv, a high school drama teacher in 1970s South Wales. Viv wants to engage her bored teenage students and decides to put on an extremely unique musical that...