#Animation
Trailer Watch: Robin Wright Animates Herself in The Congress
Actresses of a certain age will take any number of drastic measures to stop the march of time, but few are probably brave enough to undergo the extreme procedure Robin Wright volunteers for in The...
Frozen Becomes the 5th Top-Grossing Movie of All Time
Thanks to the international box office, Disney’s Frozen has become the fifth highest-grossing movie of all time, as well as the single highest-grossing film with a clear female protagonist and a...
Crosspost: What’s It Going to Take for Gender Equality to Come to Hollywood?
Crossposted with permission from Awards Daily. The WGA diversity report, released on April 15, delivered this rather devastating news about women screenwriters in Hollywood: While women and other...
Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Melissa Johnson (Love in the Time of March Madness)
Melissa Johnson is a writer and filmmaker living in Venice, California. She is best known for her award-winning feature documentary, No Look Pass, about a Burmese lesbian basketball star, currently...
Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Anete Melece (The Kiosk)
Anete Melece was born in Latvia in 1983. She studied visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia (BA) and animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (MA). She is an...
Tribeca Women DIrectors: Meet Elizabeth Swados (My Depression)
Perhaps best known for her Broadway and international smash hit Runaways, Elizabeth Swados has composed, written and directed for over 30 years. Some of her works include the Obie Award-winning...
Frozen Now the Highest-Grossing Animated Film in History
With over a $1 billion in ticket sales internationally, Frozen is no longer just the highest-grossing animated film in Disney history, but the highest-grossing animated film ever. Jennifer Lee and...
Frozen Estimated to Become Highest-Grossing Movie in Disney History
Who knew that the best holiday gift Disney could give itself was turning its back on its past? Last November’s Frozen flipped the script on the passive-princess protagonists and...
Frozen is First Woman-Directed Movie to Make $1 Billion
Women want to see movies about women. And since women buy the majority of movie tickets (and boys and men will buy tickets to watch the adventures of female protagonists), movies about women...
The Big O: Between Ellen and Everyone’s Mom, Oscar Night Turned Into Ladies Night
For a year with no female talent represented in the director’s category and only three of the nine best-picture candidates featuring women in lead roles, the Oscar show was a regular femme fest....
Frozen, Gravity, and Philomena Win at BAFTAs
With so few women-directed films and women-penned screenplays in the running, this awards season doesn’t have much to offer those looking to increase female presence behind...
Frozen Wins Best Picture at Annie Awards
For the second time since the Annie Awards’ Best Animated Feature prize was established in 1992, a woman-directed film has received the top honor. The Annie Awards are the Oscars of the animation...
Disney Helps More Girls See Themselves Onscreen with Multilingual “Let It Go” Video
There’s a small but crucial scene in Frozen that’s merits some discussion. It occurs early in the film during Anna’s song “For the First Time in Forever,” when she imagines she might meet...
Frozen: Let It Go… to Broadway!
Disney animated features don’t have the strongest track record on Broadway. While The Lion King remains a monster hit and the Beauty and the Beast stage production, which folded in 2007, boasts...
Hunger Games: Catching Fire Will Be Top Grossing Movie of 2013, Frozen Surges to #4
All hail Katniss, Anna, and Elsa. The heroines of Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen, introduced to us all the way back in November, have started off the new year still kicking box-office...
The Big O: Remembering 2013’s Top Female Film Moments
I have always been a list-maker. After all, they come in handy when it comes to remembering what groceries to buy, what clothes to pack and what chores to nag my husband about. But unlike many film...
Golden Globe Noms Reflect the Status Quo of Hollywood Sexism
The 2014 Golden Globe Awards have us excited about Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s return to hosting duties and… that’s about it. With no women directors (minus Frozen co-helmer Jennifer Lee) or...
When Does a Fluke Officially Become a Trend?
My latest piece from Forbes: The big news last week was rightfully the passage of a towering figure in history, Nelson Mandela. So it’s not surprising that most people — including...
Happy Friday: Listen and Watch Idina Menzel Sing the Hell Out of Let it Go
If you haven’t seen Frozen yet and you needed something to tip you towards the theatre, Disney has released the most powerful sequence and centerpiece of the film — Idina Menzel as Elsa...
Why Big Weekend For Frozen And Catching Fire Is A Great Thing For Women In Hollywood
Latest piece for Forbes This past weekend was a record breaker at the box office for films starring female characters. Catching Fire from Lionsgate continued its march towards being one of the top...
Teen Heroines Kick Box-Office Ass During Holiday Weekend
Move along, Black Friday. Thanksgiving weekend belonged to Katniss Everdeen and Frozen’s Anna, who helped propel female heroines to the top of the box office. Not only did The Hunger Games:...
With Frozen, Director Jennifer Lee Breaks the Ice for Women Directors
It has taken 53 films, starting with 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, for theMagic Kingdom to reach this historic point. But Walt Disney Animation Studios hasfinally placed a woman in the...
Latest Forbes Piece: A Female Revolution at the Box Office
When you spend your time writing about women and Hollywood there are many, many days when things seem bleak and downright depressing. But not this week. This week I am filled with hope, and that...
Two Woman Directors Eligible for Next Year’s Animation Oscar
Among the 19 animated features submitted for the Oscar consideration yesterday, two were directed or co-directed by women. Both Nancy Savard, who helmed the Canadian production The Legend of...
Margaret Dean and Kristy Scanlan Elected WIA Co-Presidents
Margaret Dean and Kristy Scanlan have been elected co-presidents of Women In Animation. The organization is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014 and it includes women from all aspects of the...
Ridiculous Comment of the Day: “It’s Harder to Animate Female Characters”
Earlier this week, MovieViral.com ran an article about the 50 Things You May Not Know About Frozen, the upcoming Jennifer Lee co-directed Disney animated feature based on The Snow Queen. The...
Trailer Watch: Frozen — Co-Directed by Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee, co-director of the upcoming Frozen, is only the second woman in Disney history to direct a Disney animated feature. Frozen, is an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale,...