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Women at the Box Office: ‘Eye in the Sky’ and ‘My Name is Doris’ Push Ahead
It’s been a good week for women-centric films at the box office. “Eye in the Sky” and “Hello, My Name is Doris” are rising steadily in the box office, out-performing their estimated...
Women at the Box Office: Wonder Woman Wins the Weekend
“Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” may have broken records this weekend, but it was Wonder Woman who stole the show. The DC Comics action-packed superhero film wherein the Dark Knight of...
Only 6 Women Directors in the UK’s Top 100 Films of 2015
Elizabeth Banks’ “Pitch Perfect 2,” Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” Sarah Gavron’s “Suffragette,” Nancy Meyers’ “The Intern,” Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Fifty Shades of Grey” and...
Three Movies About Women Make ‘The Billion Dollar Club’
Only twenty films have grossed more than $1 billion dollars through their global theatrical runs, with “Furious 7” being the most recent addition to that list, taking only 17 days to race its...
Study: Women Made up the Majority of Moviegoers in 2014
It’s broken-record time again. For the 5th year ina row, women made up the majority of moviegoers in US and Canada in 2014, according to newresearch released by the MPAA. Women also purchased 50%...
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,...
Women Made Up 15% of the Protagonists in the Top 250 Grossing Films in 2014
A warning: if you’re still reeling from the profoundly disappointing news that 100% of this year’s eight Oscar-nominated feature films are about men, this post is likely to make you even more...
Women Wrote 17% of 2014’s Top 250 Grossing Films
On Wednesday, we revealed that women directed only 17 of last year’s top 250 grossing films — a depressing 6.8%. Fortunately, the number of female screenwriters who penned the scripts to...
Julie Taymor’s ‘The Lion King’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Work of Any Media in Entertainment History
The stage version of The Lion King has a lot of things going for it: a universal story, sing-a-long songs, childhood nostalgia for the animated movie, and relatively affordable tickets. But it’s...
Jessica Chastain Wants More Female Protagonists: “Where is the Scarlett Johansson Superhero Movie?”
After Zero Dark Thirty and The Help, we don’t need any more reasons to love Jessica Chastain, but she’s giving us another one anyway. On a press tour for The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,...
Breaking Dawn Scores 5th Highest Opening Weekend Ever
Women dominated the box office this weekend. Breaking Dawn grossed $139.5 million here in the US and another $144 million overseas making it the 5th highest opening domestic weekend EVER. It was...
Breaking Dawn Gets Ready to Take The Weekend Box Office
Well it looks like the Twilight phenomenon has corrupted one who I thought was immune — Manohla Dargis of the NY Times who wrote in her review today that she “had surrendered.” She also...