#Actress
Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk: Meryl Streep Saluting Hillary Clinton
Check out this AWESOME video of Meryl Streep introducing Hillary Clinton at the Women in the World Summit in NYC this past weekend. Make it to the end and you with see La Streep take out her Oscar...
Viola Davis to Play Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Maybe this could be the one to put Viola Davis up on the stage on Oscar night with a win in her column. Several reports state that Davis is circling to star in and produce a biopic on the...
Interview with Jennifer Westfeldt — Writer and Director of Friends With Kids
Jennifer Wesfeldt was kind enough to answer some questions (by email) about her new film, Friends with Kids which opened yesterday. Women and Hollywood: You were hesitant to step behind the camera...
Friends With Kids — Written and Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt
What’s interesting about Friends with Kids is that Jennifer Westfeldt has the skills to make a film feel subversive and mainstream at the same time. The story she tells (which she also produces...
Happy International Women’s Day: Women in Film and TV (UK) Releases 2012 Power List
Women in Film and Television (UK) partnered with Screen International and Broadcast have released the 2012 Women in Film and Television Power List. Here’s a quote from the head of Women in Film...
New Hunger Games Trailer — Katniss Shows Her Skills
Over a million views since March 1st.
How Big Will The Hunger Games Open?
The news is that this week when The Hunger Games came onto the pre release tracking (which is what the studios use to gauge awareness and desire to see a film) it was huge — so huge that...
Hunger Games Advance Ticket Sales Break Records
This is very, very good news. Advanced tickets went on sale last week for The Hunger Games which opens on March 23rd. According to Fandango, the one day total for the film was bigger than the one...
Amy Poehler’s Message to Lawmakers
Could I love her anymore? Doubtful. If you haven’t seen her segment from SNL that this came from, watch it here.
The Help: Eat My Shit
Love this video. Done by Jon and Al Kaplan. h/t Cinema Blend
Cross Post: Oiling the Oscar Machine
Sasha Stone from Awards Daily attended the Oscars last night and write a very good analysis piece. She has a big section on Viola Davis and Meryl Streep which she has given permission to cross post....
Comedians Take on the Contraception Issue
These are worth watching. Just goes to show that the Republicans are our comedians best friends. https://medium.com/media/526c2e5ebdd9ede686e7315d16661a9f/href The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ...
Trailer Watch: Girls
No more teases. This is the real albeit short trailer. It’s Tiny Furniture but with HBO money. Also take note that Tiny Furniture is now available in DVD via the Criterion Collection which by the...
Sexism Watch: NY Times Book Review Calls NY Times Reporter’s Book “Chick Nonfiction”
We hit another dubious milestone this weekend. A book called The Obamas written by veteran NY Times reporter Jodi Kantor was called “chick nonfiction” in a NY Times book review written by...
Sexism Watch: Gender Disparities in Actor Salaries
I saw a story the other day about how the actor Chris Pine (whose new film This Means War opens today and looks beyond dreadful) was being sued by his former agents over non payment of commissions....
Meryl Streep Gets Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival
Coming off her BAFTA win for best actress in London on Sunday night, Meryl Streep headed to the Berlin Film Festival to pick up a lifetime acheivement award. At the variety of press conferences she...
Cross Post: Streep Speaks and Illuminates the Need for More Female Critics
Earlier this week, Terry Gross broadcast a provocative interview with Meryl Streep on her NPR program Fresh Air. The interview was tied to Streep’s unprecedented 17th Oscar nomination for her...
Trailer Watch: Hemingway and Gellhorn
I seriously have not been this excited about a Nicole Kidman movie in a long time. Based on the voice over it should be named Gellhorn and Hemingway but as is typical with women in history, she seems...
Trailer Watch: New Trailer for the Hunger Games
Counting down towards March 23. The Hollywood Reporter in a cover story says that it took Jennifer Lawrence 3 days to say yes to the part of a lifetime and that she is made about $500,000. (But she...
Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer Book New Projects
Smart women. Strike while the iron is hot. Octavia starts shooting Diablo Cody’s directorial debut shortly, but she also has booked her next role which came to me yesterday in one of the Hollywood...
Can Girls Be a Game Changer?
I found this brief behind the scenes one minute and forty two second piece from the upcoming HBO series Girls created by Lena Dunham and after I watched it I could not help but think that this show...
Trailer Watch: Game Change
This movie looks so much better than the book and I really loved the book. Julianne Moore is totally rocking as Sarah Palin. Love it!
Sundance Deals 2012: The Women
Here’s the list of women directed and women written films that got picked up out of Sundance. I’m sure there will be more to come. Women Directed 2 Days in New York (Magnolia) — directed...
Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2012
At least they are all dressed. But all the satin kind of reminds me of a brothel. Thw women on the power panel which is the actual cover are Rooney Mara, Mia Wasikowska, Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica...
The Help Wins Big at the SAG Awards
Check out this image of the cast of the Help winning best ensemble at the SAG Awards last night. I’m pretty sure we won’t see that many women on a stage again at the same time winning an award...
A Good Roundtable and a Bad Roundtable
You can’t tell me that Stephen Daldry is going to get an Oscar nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He’s great and I love The Hours, but please, why is he in this roundtable...
Final Hunger Games Poster
I love this poster because it says this is a film about a young woman who is active and in charge. Great image. And yes, the world will be watching. Cannot. Wait.
Octavia Spencer Rocks Her Golden Globe Press Conference
Every time she opens her mouth I get more and more impressed with her. Favorite comment that she is happy living in her own skin and people should be proud of who you are. I love how she took off...
Lynne Ramsay Scores BAFTA Directing Nomination
In a year when we will probably not see a female director nominated for any major awards here in the US, the Brits have been smart enough to recognize the Lynne Ramsay did do one of the best...
Octavia Spencer’s Golden Globe Speech
I was co-hosting (they did all the work) a Golden Globe watching party last night with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance and when Octavia won the place went nuts. And then when she mentioned...
Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe Winning Speech
Meryl Streep won best actress in a drama for The Iron Lady. In her speech she acknowledged all her fellow nominees and the other terrific female performances from this year. And how about her shout...
Trailer Watch: Friends With Kids Written and Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt
Yahoo! Video Player Film Opens March 9.
Where are the Women?
It has not been a good couple of months for women on shortlists here in the UK. Back in December the nation presided over the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist: 10 men and 0 women....
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award Winners
EDA ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Best Film: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist Best Screenplay, Original: Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen Best Screenplay, Adapted:...
Melissa McCarthy News
A couple of things to talk about on the Melissa McCarthy front. First- She ain’t doing a Bridesmaids sequel without Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo. Ms. McCarthy was clearly pissed when word...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: George Clooney
…It was my first time to create a character from beginning to end. I’ve always just shown up and, whatever my lines are, I just do it, like almost robotic in a way. But this is the first time I...
Diablo Cody, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig Get Nominated for WGA Awards
It seems that women’s orginal work is being recognized this year by the WGA with two out of the five slots for original screenplay taken by women. Diablo Cody was nominated for Young Adult and...
Behind the Scenes: Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher Arrives at 10 Downing Street
It’s kind of cool to hear about the creation of this scene. As Meryl Streep says: “ Margaret Thatcher really did break ground because she showed a woman could be a leader.” The film opens in...
Lame Idea of the Day — Making a Bridesmaids Sequel Without the Lead Bridesmaid
The Hollywood Reporter released a story yesterday saying that Universal was planning on moving ahead with a Bridemaids sequel but that star/co-writer Kristen Wiig as well as co-writer Annie Mumolo...
Meryl Streep to be Feted at Berlin Film Festival
Some good news for Meryl Streep and The Iron Lady. First, the box office for the film which opened December 30 was terrific. It grossed $280,409 in four theatres (in NY and LA) for an amazing total...
The Iron Lady
As a person who cares about women’s leadership, The Iron Lady should be a no-brainer. A film with an AMAZING tour-de-force performance by Meryl Streep playing a woman who was the longest serving...
Meryl Streep Feted at the Kennedy Center Honors
Here are Meryl’s friends and colleagues celebrating her work.
Teaser Trailer: Game Change on HBO
Women’s Film Critics Circle Award Winners
I love the diversity of categories. But where is the best woman director? UPDATE- the best womena director is the director of the best movie by women. I think we name the women because people need...
Meryl on the Narrowing of the Film Audience
There are not many people who can get away with saying that the film business has basically thrown away everyone except for teenage boys, but that’s exactly what Meryl Streep did last night on...
Meryl Streep Will Be on 60 Minutes Tonight
And she is on the cover of the new Newsweek appearing on newstands tomorrow.
The Golden Globe Nominations: The Women
I like the Golden Globe show cause it’s always goofy. People drink, say funny stuff and you get TV and film people in one place. People who are awards watchers don’t take it too seriously...
The Help and Bridesmaids Score Screen Actors Guild Nominations
Yesterday, the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced. Both The Help and Bridesmaids scored best ensembles nominations (which is their top award) which could be an indicator of...
Trailer Watch: What To Expect When You Are Expecting — Written by Shauna Cross and Heather Hach
Can one hope that this movie won’t suck if Shauna Cross the writer of Whip-It has written it? I will hope…
Teaser Trailer for HBO Show Girls
This begins the official campaign of I heart Lena Dunham.
Meryl Streep Covers Vogue for the First Time
A rockin 62 year old woman on the cover of Vogue. What is this world coming to? I totally can’t wait to read the whole interview (and this will be the first Vogue I have purchased in a loooong...