#Divergent 2
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley Travels Beyond the Wall in ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’
Shailene Woodley is back in action-heroine mode. A teaser has been released for “Allegiant,” the latest chapter of “The Divergent Series,” and the clip takes us right back to the beginning...
Divergent Third Novel to be Split into Two Movies
Lionsgate is betting big on Shailene Woodley. Production has yet to begin on Insurgent, the sequel that picks up right after Divergent, but Lionsgate has announced that Allegiant, the third book in...
Blockbusters with Young Action Heroines Mean Pink Weapons for Girls
Hollywood has been ridiculously slow to get the message that audiences want action heroines, but toy companies have received the message loud and clear. In a fascinating look at recent changes in...
Divergent Leaps to the Top of the Box Office; Sequel Planned
Another action-romance with a female hero has dominated the weekend box office. Critics may not have liked Divergent, but audiences sure did. In addition to the $56 million weekend haul, the...
Manohla Dargis Hits It on the Head (Again) With Her Review of Divergent
How could I love her even more? Is she reading my mind? This is from her review for Divergent. Women warriors are on the rise again in American movies, and so, too, are hopes that they’ll be able...
Will Divergent be the Next YA Phenom?
I wish people would stop calling Divergent a Hunger Games knock-off. Sure, the two franchises have some similar elements, like an ass-kicking teenage heroine struggling to survive in an improbable...
Why Shailene Woodley is Wrong to Blast Twilight
Shailene Woodley’s Divergent opens next week, which means the Descendants and Spectacular Now actress has been making the media rounds. Woodley certainly gave bloggers a lot to talk about on...
Trailer Watch: Divergent Finally Looks Amazing
Divergent, out March 21, doesn’t seem to be garnering as much interest or as excitement as it should. The film adaptation of the first installment of Veronica Roth’s best-selling YA trilogy is...
Directing the Future Panelists Are Beating the Odds
According to an oft-cited statistic, women comprise only 9%of directors in the film industry. But the participants of the “Directing theFuture” panel at Pepperdine University School of Law’s...
Trailer Watch: Divergent
Teenage girls of the future continue to get the raw deal in Divergent, the big-screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best-selling YA trilogy. Shailene Woodley plays Tris, a “divergent” who...
Trailer Watch: Divergent – Starring Shailene Woodley
The first trailer for Divergent, based on the first novel in Veronica Roth’s trilogy, was released last week. Starring Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior, the film is set...
The Women’s Guide to Comic-Con
Comic-Con has long been a boys club — I mean, it is called “fanboy” culture for a reason. However, in recent years there’s been more and more female-skewing programming,...