#Bridesmaids 2
How Melissa McCarthy Became a Box-Office Powerhouse
From my latest Forbes post on Melissa McCarthy’s savvy handling of her post-Bridesmaids career: Tammy is the next step in McCarthy’s career in a variety of ways. One, it’s the first time...
How the Demise of the Romantic Comedy Will Affect Women
Writer Amy Nicholson takes a hard look at the death of a genre — the romantic comedy — in her fantastic LA Weekly piece “Who Killed the Romantic Comedy?” Let’s keep in mind that...
Media Alert: Op-ed in Washington Post
In case you haven’t seen my tweets and Facebook posts from the weekend, I had an op-ed piece in the Washington Post yesterday. Please check it out if you haven’t: Memo to Hollywood: Women go to...
Brave Scores $66 Million Opening Weekend
Brave from Pixar opened up at $66 million this weekend. Here’s a great quote from Grady Smith from EW in his box office roundup: For the third time this year, following strong openings from The...
Quote of the Day: “Why? Why? Why? Don’t they want the money?
That is the quote Meryl Streep uttered Tuesday night at the annual Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards. She was onstage to present Viola Davis with her Crystal Award for Excellence...
Oscar Thoughts: Boys, Boys and More Boys
Here’s my thing about the Oscars. There were women everywhere. We can’t stop talking about the great dresses. Women were also there as great presenters (like the crew from Bridesmaids and Emma...
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...
The Year That Was
Happy new year everyone. Thanks so much for the great support over the last year. As we start the new year, I thought it would be interesting to look at the narratives that dominated the...
Judd Apatow on Funny Women and Flukes
Judd Apatow now knows that making a great movie targeted at women is a way to make money. You get the women and you get the men. Even though he looks prescient, he admits that he was making a movie...
AFI Picks Top TV Shows and Films of the Year
This list reminds me that even though they have been upteen articles about how women are making great strides, there is still such a long way to go, because as I look at the lists I notice that...