#Actress
Trailer Watch: New ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Spot Deals With Fat Amy’s Wardrobe Malfunction
Gigs don’t get much more high-profile than performing for the President of the United States on his birthday. It’s possibly the single worst occasion to deal with a “commando situation”...
Lionsgate to Release Julianne Moore-Ellen Page LGBT Rights Drama ‘Freeheld’
Lionsgate has won a bidding war between several studios for the distribution rights to “Freeheld,” a drama chronicling the legal battle by lesbian couple Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree against...
‘Frozen’ Fever Boosts Disney’s Corporate Numbers, Yields New Short
Happy Friday: Celebrate the New ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast With Print-and-Cut Paper Dolls
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend — after streaming The Fall on Netflix and watching Appropriate Behavior on VOD, of course — look no further. Thanks to Mashable, you...
Watch: Amy Schumer Lives Out Our Fantasies of Forcing Anna Kendrick to Be Her BFF
Promo clips for awards shows usually aren’t especially entertaining — the notable exceptions being Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Globe previews — but Anna Kendrick and this year’s MTV...
Watch: Nicole Kidman Plays a Real-Life Victorian Archaeologist in ‘Queen of the Desert’
If you’ve ever wondered what Homeland’s Sergeant Nicholas Brody and Moulin Rouge’s Satine look like kissing, today is your lucky day. A one-minute clip of Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert...
Octavia Spencer Attached to Star in Biopic of Famed 19th-Century Nurse Mary Seacole
Three years after winning the 2012 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Help, Octavia Spencer may finally have found the kind of cinematic starring role worthy of her talents. Last summer, Spencer...
The Cast of ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Chosen — McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, and McKinnon to Suit Up
The casting of an all-female Ghostbusters reboot has been the source of much speculation since the project was first announced. Now we finally have word on which women will be headlining the Paul...
Guest Post: How the Female-Heavy Crew Making ‘Little Accidents’ Probably Saved the Production
Although it was never an intentional goal, one of the best aspectsof making Little Accidents was making a film with so many strong women up anddown the ladder of production and finance. I became...
Katniss Headlines the Highest-Grossing Film Two Years in a Row
Hunger Games fans, rejoice: Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen has dominated the box office once again. Mockingjay — Part 1 has surpassed Guardians of the Galaxy at the box office,...
‘Song One’ Director Kate Barker-Froyland on Rewriting Her Script for Anne Hathaway, Being Typecast as a “Woman Director”
Song One begins with anthropology grad student Franny (Anne Hathaway) immersed in Moroccan culture. We witness her carefully observing local rituals and taking meticulous notes. The drama chronicles...
Anne Hathaway and Julie Taymor Team Up for Play About Female Fighter Pilot
After winning an Oscar for playing the doomed Fantine in Les Misérables two years ago, Anne Hathaway will delve even deeper into her theatre roots by starring in Grounded, a one-woman play about a...
Margaret Nagle to Receive WGA Award for ‘The Good Lie’ Script
Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire, The Red Band Society) will receive the Writers Guild of America’s 2015 Paul Selvin Award for her The Good Lie screenplay. Named after the WGA’s late general...
Jennifer Lawrence in Talks to Star as Diver Audrey Mestre
Charlize Theron Developing Women-Centric TV Shows in New Production Deal
Charlize Theron’s name isn’t exactly synonymous with TV (though the Oscar-winning actress can boast an unforgettable guest arc sending up the manic pixie dream girl trope in Arrested...
Watch: Jessica Chastain Calls for More Diversity in Hollywood
The Oscars have always been dominated by white men, but its demographic lopsidedness became a flashpoint of anger yesterday when this year’s nominations failed to include Selma director Ava...
Trailer Watch: Emma Thompson Urges Dakota Fanning’s ‘Effie Gray’ to Flee a Bad Victorian Marriage in Newly Cut Promo
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Trailer Watch: Melissa McCarthy is a Different Kind of ‘Spy’
2015 Golden Globes: Fey, Poehler, Fonda, Tomlin, Moore, Adams, Arquette, and Gyllenhaal Speak Out for Women
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler set the theme for the 2015 Golden Globes in more ways than one last night. Perhaps it was Fey or Poehler’s gender-conscious jokes the two years before — or maybe it...
Trailer Watch: Hollywood Drives Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska Insane in New ‘Maps to the Stars’ Promo
Dunham does Iowa: ‘Girls,’ Season Four
Trailer Watch: Helen Mirren Returns to Broadway as Queen Elizabeth II in ‘The Audience’
Anglophiles, rejoice! Helen Mirren will reprise one of her greatest roles, albeit in an entirely different production, when she returns to Broadway this winter. Mirren will play Queen Elizabeth II...
Melissa McCarthy’s Disgraced One-Percenter Comedy Gets Release Date
Melissa McCarthy isn’t letting the unfair maligning that Tammy received from the entertainment press get her down. McCarthy will return to the multiplex this May in the CIA comedy Spy and is...
HBO Renews ‘Girls’ for Fifth Season
Top Designers Refused to Make Melissa McCarthy’s Oscar Dress
Women and Hollywood is on break this week. Please enjoy one of our most popular posts of the year below. We will return with new features, editorials, and news stories on Monday, January 5....
Trailer Watch: Helen Mirren Fights For Her ‘Woman in Gold’
The box-office success of 2013’s Philomena (which enjoyed a worldwide gross of $100 million on a $12 million production budget) apparently convinced the BBC that movies about women — even...
Reese Witherspoon: “It’s Time That We Start Seeing Women for How Complex They Really Are”
Reese Witherspoon’s makeover from America’s Sweetheart to America’s Bookworm continues with a segment on 60 Minutes, in which the Wild actress and Gone Girl producer talks to Charlie Rose...
The Most Important Feminist Film Moments of 2014
Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” “Best Films About Women...
The Best Films About Women in 2014
Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” and “Best TV Shows and...
Amy Schumer to Produce Comedy Central Show Starring Rachel Feinstein
Trailer Watch: What a Parent-Preteen Fight Looks Like from the ‘Inside Out’
Trailer Watch: ‘Little Accidents’ Expose a Big Secret in Elizabeth Banks Drama
Trailer Watch: Julianne Moore Grieves for Herself in ‘Still Alice’
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Trailer Watch: Hannah Grows Up (Just a Little Bit) in New Spot for ‘Girls’ Season 4
‘Miss Julie’ Director Liv Ullmann on Adapting a Misogynistic 19th-Century Play for 21st-Century Sensibilities
After making her film debut as a teenager and gaining international fame by starring in ten of Ingmar Bergman’s movies (including Persona and Scenes from a Marriage), Liv Ullmann directed her...
Reese Witherspoon to Receive Palm Springs Film Festival’s Chairman Award for ‘Wild’
The Reese-surgence is in full swing. Reese Witherspoon will receive the Chairman Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Jan. 2–12), an institution rife with Academy voters, for...
Women and Hollywood Podcast: Cheryl Strayed — Author of Wild
Wild opens today in NY and LA. It rolls out to more cities on Friday. You can see info here. I was able to have a great conversation with Cheryl Strayed, the author of the memoir that the film is...
Adopt Films to Release Dakota Fanning and Emma Thompson’s ‘Effie Gray’
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to Tell ‘Big Little Lies’ on TV
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are the latest A-listers to sign up for plum gigs on the small screen. After jointly optioning Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, the two Oscar winners...
Watch: How Not to Sell a Movie, AKA What’s With This Trailer for ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’?
Watch: President Obama Salutes Meryl Streep with Presidential Medal of Freedom
‘Mockingjay — Part 1’ Opens at 2014’s Biggest Box-Office Weekend
Here’s another feather in Jennifer Lawrence’s cap: her latest film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 opened nationwide at $123 million, landing the biggest domestic box-office weekend...
New Podcast: Nina Jacobson — Producer of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
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Jennifer Lawrence and the ‘Mockingjay’ Are Ready To Set The Box Office on Fire
From my latest Forbes post on the sky-high projections for the world’s most popular female-led franchise and the two models of women’s leadership the blockbuster provides: The Hunger Games:...
Trailer Watch: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Aims for World Domination
Melissa McCarthy to Play Tinker Bell in Live-Action Comedy-Adventure
Non-blonde, non-spritely Melissa McCarthy has signed on to play Tinker Bell in an upcoming live-action comedy-adventure. At this point, we can only guess what kind of fairy McCarthy, who will star...
Trailer Watch: Live-Action ‘Cinderella’ Stars Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham-Carter
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Emma Thompson to Be Honored by British Independent Film Awards
Emma Thompson, the only artist to boast Oscar trophies for both writing and acting, will receive the Richard Harris Award at this year’s Moët British Independent Film Awards. The Richard Harris...
Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Seduces and Bullies in Liv Ullmann’s ‘Miss Julie’
We are introduced to Miss Julie through the eyes of John, her father’s valet, who describes her as “elegant” and “magnificent” and praises her “waist and neck.” Her first lines of...
Trailer Watch: Anne Hathaway is Consoled by Music and Love in Kate Barker-Froyland’s ‘Song One’
“Your brother was in an accident. You need to come home.” So begins a journey for archaeologist Franny, played by Anne Hathaway in Song One. Franny leaves a dig in Morocco to spend time with her...
Kristen Stewart, Kate Winslet, ‘Frozen’ Director Jennifer Lee Among Mentors for ‘Twilight’ Short Film Contest
As anyone with a glancing familiarity with Bella and Edward knows, the Twilight fandom is powerful, passionate, and legion. A new short film contest called “The Storytellers — New Voices of...