#Amy Pascal
PGA Awards 2019: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Being Serena” Win Big
“Mrs. Maisel” is still on a marvelous awards season streak. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s tale of a ’50s housewife forging a career in standup comedy won the The Danny Thomas Award...
Animated “Spider-Women” Film in the Works at Sony
Sony is bringing another women-driven “Spider-Man” universe story to the screen. Five months after the studio announced a “Silk” movie was in early development comes word of...
Korean-American Superheroine Pic “Silk” in the Works at Sony, Amy Pascal Producing
Cindy Moon could be getting her own movie. Deadline reports a pic centering on the Marvel character, aka Silk, is in early development at Sony and Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures. Created by Dan...
Quote of the Day: Amy Pascal Says The System is “Geared for Women to Fail in Films”
In a new interview with Britain’s The Sunday Times Magazine, former Sony co-chairperson Amy Pascal described the lack of opportunities for female directors as “a travesty, a real travesty.”...
Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon Option Eve Babitz Memoirs for TV Adaptation
Eve Babitz’s quadrilogy of memoirs, which chronicle LA in the ’60s and ’70s from the POV of a young bohemian, has been optioned by former Sony execs Amy Pascal and Elizabeth Cantillon. TriStar...
Erin Cressida Wilson to Adapt Art-Forgery Thriller ‘Maestra’ With Producer Amy Pascal
“Secretary” screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson has been tapped to pen the screen version of “Maestra,” the publishing industry’s latest sensation. That’s a second victory for Wilson this...
Jennifer Lawrence to Receive Bigger Paycheck Than Chris Pratt for ‘Passengers’
Jennifer Lawrence is finally getting the paycheck she deserves. The Oscar-winning actress and action star will be paid $20 million — plus 30 percent of the film’s profits after it breaks...
Lisbeth Salander to Live on in New ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Book
A fourth “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” novel will be published on August 27. Lisbeth Salander, the anti-social hacker-heroine created by deceased Swedish author Stieg Larsson, will make her...
Sarah Polley, Amy Pascal to Team Up for ‘Little Women’ Remake
“Little Women” is headed back to theaters, this time with a script from Sarah Polley and the producing might of Amy Pascal. Two decades after director Gillian Armstrong’s retelling of Louisa...
Crosspost: Why Amy Pascal’s Advice to Women to “Know Their Worth” and “Walk Away” is an Insult
The following is crossposted from Julie Bush’s blog with permission of the author. It has been edited and condensed. In Hollywood, it’s rare to be told directly that you can’t get a job...
Amy Pascal Discusses Getting “Fired,” Explains Unequal Pay for Women Under Her Tenure
Amy Pascal has quite a busy producing schedule ahead of her, but her future projects didn’t stop her from being surprisingly candid at the Women in the World conference in San Francisco yesterday....
Amy Pascal’s Next Female Films: ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Cleopatra,’ Another ‘Little Women,’ ‘Barbie’
Amy Pascal’s days as Sony Chair are numbered (the outgoing exec will officially step down in May), but her producing schedule for the next few years is already quite full. Pascal will stay on as...
Amy Pascal Steps Down as Sony Chairman
One of the most powerful women in the entertainment industry has resigned. Amy Pascal has stepped down as Sony Chairman — a move that was widely expected, albeit somewhat unfairly, since her...
The Sony Hack, Amy Pascal, and Gender and Power in Hollywood
It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for Amy Pascal and the folks at Sony. I would even venture to say that these last couple of weeks have been the shittiest of Ms. Pascal’s 30-year career in...
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...
Aaron Sorkin Mansplains Hollywood
This week writer Aaron Sorkin showed up at the Tribeca Film Festival and, in his typical way, gave us some nuggets to digest about how the privileged few in Hollywood regard the rest of us. This is...
Donna Langley Becomes Second Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood
On Sunday, The New York Times published a great profile of Donna Langley, the Chairwoman of Universal Pictures. The article coincided with the announcement that Langley’s contract at NBCUniversal...
The Hollywood Decision Makers
Hollywood is a town where many people can say no and few people can say yes. The Wrap did a studio by studio look at the people in the town who can say yes, and no surprise, there are just a few...
Variety Announces Recipients of 5th Annual Power of Women
Variety has announced the group of women they will be honoring at their 5th annual Power of Women event, which celebrates leaders in the industry and their philanthropic work. This year the...
Women Attain Their Highest Level of Leadership at the Academy
Each year the Academy votes in members of its Governors Board. The board members represents each of the Academy’s 16 branches which includes the newly created costume designers branch....
Two is Just Too Many Women for Spiderman to Deal With
I noticed on twitter some chatter earlier today about the fact that Shailene Woodley who is about to cover EW with her new film Divergent (which looks like it could be a real successor to The Hunger...
Forbes Names World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
Forbes has just named the World’s 100 Most Poweful Women of 2013. And it’s a very impressive list. It includes women in politics like Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany who was...
Sony Head Amy Pascal on Women Directors: The Whole System is Geared for Them To Fail
Holy crap. In a revealing interview with Forbes’ Dorothy Pomerantz on the occasion of the publication of the most powerful women in the world list, Sony studio chief Amy Pascal, the only...
Amy Pascal Asks Hollywood to Eliminate Gay Stereotypes from Films
Amy Pascal is truly a force. She championed Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty all the way. And at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center gala last week, Pascal asked the industry to take a long, hard look...
Sexism Pushes Its Way Into the Oscar Campaign
In the last week the screws have really been tightening in this bizarre world of Oscar campaigning, and Kathryn Bigelow and her film Zero Dark Thirty are the recipients of what is referred to a...
What Do the New Changes at Sony Mean for Amy Pascal?
Yesterday, the news broke that Michael Lynton who is now co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment along with Amy Pascal will be promoted to running all of Sony’s entertainment operations in the...
The World’s Most Powerful Women According to Forbes
Forbes loves its lists. Its most recent list is the world’s most powerful women and it is of course dominated by female politicians with Angela Merkel topping the list. But there are many Hollywood...
Book Excerpt- The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson
I have a piece in the upcoming anthology The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, John-Henri...
The Misogyny Machine That Rules Hollywood Comedies
Some days I wake up thinking that things can’t be really as bad as I think they are, then, I see a story like Tad Friend’s piece in this week’s New Yorker on Anna Faris and the state of...