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Kering and Cannes Film Festival Will Present Second ‘Women in Motion’ Program
Kering, the high-end French luxury goods holding company, will once again present the “Women in Motion” Program at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The program launched at last year’s...
Kathryn Bigelow Announces Next Film: Drama About 1967 Detroit Riots
More than three years after the release of her last film (“Zero Dark Thirty”), Kathryn Bigelow has finally announced her next project. The first and only woman filmmaker to ever win the Best...
Cate Blanchett in Talks to Play Eccentric Architect in ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’
After playing an evil stepmother, a bisexual housewife and a fierce TV producer this year, Cate Blanchett is looking to continue her streak of taking up some of the best female roles Hollywood has...
Megan Ellison to Produce ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s Next Film
The critically lauded A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night didn’t just garner writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour a Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, but a powerful...
Greta Gerwig and Julie Delpy to Star in Todd Solondz’s ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ Sequel(-ish) Project
Some exciting news for those among us who are fans of very, very dark comedy: Todd Solondz is kinda-sorta making a sequel to his painfully funny and disturbing 1995 cult classic Welcome to the...
Rooney Mara and Megan Ellison to Adapt Somalia Kidnapping Memoir
In 2008, adventurer Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped by Somali ransom-seekers and held and tortured for 460 days. During that time, she converted to Islam for survival, received “wife lessons,” was...
Kathryn Bigelow Eyeing Movie Project About Bowe Berghdal
Just last month, Kathryn Bigelow announced that she would adapt Anand Giridharadas’ The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, a dual portrait of domestic terrorist Mark Stroman and the...
Kathryn Bigelow Books Her Next Film: The True American
We have a new Kathryn Bigelow film to look forward to. Bigelow will direct and produce an adaptation of the non-fiction book The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, written by New York Times...
Megan Ellison to Develop TV Show about Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo
In news that’s almost too good to be true, Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures announced that it would develop a TV series about Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Both stars were widely rumored...
Hollywood’s Glass Ceiling: Why Doesn’t the Film Industry Trust Women?
Here’s a piece I wrote for CNN’s Leading Women section: It would be wonderful to say that in 2013 things were looking up for women in Hollywood — both onscreen and behind the...
Michael Moore: Zero Dark Thirty is a Movie About ‘How We Don’t Listen to Women.’
Always controversial and rarely quiet political filmmaker and author, Michael Moore, has spoken out in defense of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. Moore took to Facebook (and Time.com),...
Where’d You Go Bernadette Gets Writers and Producers
One of the best books I read over the holidays and last year is Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette? It is an original, funny, touching, moving story of a 50 year old woman,...