News
French film industry execs Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy have launched their own firm. The duo have started Paris-based production company June Films, with features from actress-filmmakers Clémence...
There’s plenty more of “Lady Buds” to harvest. CJ Russo’s 2021 documentary about a group of women struggling to save their cannabis businesses in the wake of...
“The Farewell” filmmaker Lulu Wang and producer Dani Melia are setting up shop at Amazon. Deadline reports the duo have entered into a first-look TV deal with Amazon via their new...
Research
Hollywood’s gender problem extends beyond on- and off-camera roles. According to a new study from WIF (Women In Film, Los Angeles), there is also a pronounced gender disparity among the...
EbonyLife Media founder and CEO Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu is bringing an adventure story about colonialism, history, and cultural repatriation to BBC Studios as part of a new development deal....
Linda Yvette Chávez is set to “create her own as well as supervise other writers’ dramas and comedies for all platforms” at 20th Television. Deadline reports the...
Lena Waithe is heading to Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG). The mogul-in-the-making has inked “a big exclusive overall deal” with the studio, Deadline reports, which will see her and...
Films
We haven’t seen the last of Emma Stone’s Cruella de Vil. According to Deadline, the Oscar winner has signed on to topline the sequel to this year’s “Cruella,” the origin...
A documentary about Martha Stewart is heading to Netflix. From “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” director R.J. Cutler, the doc will explore the “life and times”...
Recent Oscar-winners Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, multi-hyphenates Issa Rae and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, activist and author Stacey Abrams, and moguls Oprah Winfrey and Shonda Rhimes are just a few...
Constance Wu is expanding her repertoire. The star of “Fresh Off The Boat” and “Crazy Rich Asians” is starting her own production venture and has signed a first-look...
Katori Hall is sticking with Lionsgate Television. She has signed an overall deal with the studio, which produces her strip club-set Starz drama “P-Valley.” The pact will see Hall create...
Get ready for more Rebel Girls. The media brand behind the “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” book series and “Rebel Podcast” is entering into a development pact with...
Following her “Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women: Frontline Heroes” hosting gig and her role as executive producer on TV movie “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley...
Cate Blanchett and FX Productions are taking their relationship to the next level. The “Mrs. America” star has inked a first-look TV production deal with its studio via Dirty Films, an...
Propelle, the new female-focused accelerator program from Everywoman Studios and Realscreen magazine, has announced the three finalists for its inaugural edition. A press release confirmed that Kelly...
Danai Gurira may be leaving “The Walking Dead,” but she’ll be sticking around the small screen. Variety confirms the “Black Panther” actress has entered into a two-year...
Stephanie Allain is coming off her Oscars producing gig with her first TV studio deal. According to Deadline, the veteran producer has inked a multi-year first-look pact with Warner Horizon Scripted...
Everywoman Studios, a studio dedicated to women-created content and cause-related social campaigns, and Realscreen, an international magazine focused on non-fiction film and TV, have teamed up on a...
Media mogul Elisabeth Murdoch, seasoned exec Stacey Snider, and television producer Jane Featherstone have joined forces and launched a new global content company. According to The Hollywood...
“Hanna” was just the beginning of Sarah Adina Smith’s career at Amazon. According to Deadline, she’s inked a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, Smith, who...
Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith are expanding their media empire. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the spouses and business partners have announced the launch of Westbrook Inc., a “studio and...
Former AFI FEST Director Jacqueline Lyanga recently joined Film Independent, the org behind the Film Independent Spirit Awards, as its new Artistic Director. A press release confirmed the...
Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF LA) and Pepperdine University are working together to address the entertainment industry’s gender gap in business funding. A press release has announced that the...
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is just the beginning of Rachel Brosnahan’s career at Amazon. The Emmy-winning actress has inked a first-look deal with Amazon Studios, Deadline reports....
Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are taking Barack and Michelle Obama’s lead. Like the former President and First Lady, the Clintons are launching their own production company....
Cult movie filmmakers and twins Jen and Sylvia Soska have entered into a first-look deal with Prospero Pictures (“A Dangerous Method”). The Hollywood Reporter confirms the Soskas’...
Liz Meriwether is sticking with 20th Century Fox TV. Deadline confirms the prolific TV writer, creator, EP, and showrunner has inked a “rich four-year overall deal” with the studio,...
It’s unclear whether we’ll actually get another season of “Sharp Objects,” but Amy Adams is definitely sticking around HBO. The six-time Oscar nominee has signed a first-look...
Trailers
Elizabeth Holmes’ dream is that “less people have to say goodbye too soon to people they love.” She reveals this aspiration in the new trailer for “The Inventor: Out for Blood...
The Palladinos are all in on Amazon. Variety reports that Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino have extended their overall pact with Amazon Studios, the home of their award-winning dramedy...
It’s starting to look like Marsai Martin may be a mogul in the making. Best known for playing Diane, AKA Dolly, on “Black-ish,” the actress is set to co-star with...
Television
Krista Vernoff is sticking with ABC and “Grey’s Anatomy.” The Hollywood Reporter confirms the “Grey’s” showrunner has inked a multi-year overall deal with ABC...
ICM talent agent Lorrie Bartlett has made a historical career move. She has been brought on to her agency’s board of directors, the Los Angeles Times reports. Per ICM, this makes Bartlett the...
It’s official: Ava DuVernay is now a mogul. The award-winning multi-hyphenate has inked her first studio pact and it’s massive. DuVernay signed a $100 million production and development...
Marti Noxon’s landmark year — which saw her launching two zeitgeist-y shows, “Sharp Objects” and “Dietland” — just got better. Variety confirms the TV...
Features
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Guest Posts
Guest Post by Lawren Desai My son was still in diapers when I founded an art house cinema. I wrote my business plan during nap time and showed up to construction with a stroller. This was in 2010:...
“Jessica Jones” showrunner Melissa Rosenberg and “Blockers” director Kay Cannon have both inked deals with indie television studios. According to The Hollywood Reporter,...
Businesswoman Laurene Powell Jobs is using her fortune to produce and finance documentary filmmaking. According to Bloomberg, the world’s sixth-richest woman is backing a documentary studio...
News, Television
#MeToo and #TimesUp are showing no signs of slowing down. In the wake of public outcry over the disparity between Claire Foy and Matt Smith’s pay on “The Crown,” the Netflix series’...
Films, News
In the seven weeks or so since The New York Times published an exposé on Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein has fallen swiftly and rightfully from grace, and other industry predators like Brett Ratner,...
Comedy, News, Women Directors
PYPO, the multi-platform comedy network for women founded by Emmy winner Stephanie Laing, has partnered with Norwegian Air. According to a press release, the airline’s flights will feature...
Carolyn McCall is ITV’s new CEO effective January 8, 2018. According to The Hollywood Reporter, McCall will soon leave her post as easyJet’s CEO and take over the UK TV corporation. With this...
Crowdfunding, Films, News
With more than a decade of funding documentaries under her belt, BRITDOC CEO Jess Search is poised to join Kickstarter, the crowdfunding organization that helps all kinds of projects find financing....
Documentary, Films, Interviews, News, Women Directors
“Generation Startup” directors Cynthia Wade and Cheryl Miller Houser shared their thoughts on starting their own companies, why it’s important for young people to pursue their business dreams,...
It’s that time of year when we get to see who is scoring in the pay department in Hollywood. It’s no surprise to anyone that the highest paid actress in Hollywood is Angelina Jolie. She’s...
News, Women Writers
Women in Hollywood are finally feeling a little love after the unexpected success of Bridesmaids. The film has now grossed $140 million and counting and for the first time in a long time women’s...
Chris Dodd, former Senator from Connecticut, took over as Hollywood’s chief lobbyist as the head of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) about 10 days ago. Keep in mind that the former...
News, Women Producers
Now that Portman is going to take some time off from being in front of the screen for her pregnancy, she is not going to just disappear. She’s ramped up her producing business handsomecharlie with...
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