Features
“In spite of my proper Southern mother’s admonition to always be gracious, I am all out of grace when it comes to Mr. Moonves,” Linda Bloodworth Thomason writes in a guest column for...
News
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard is speaking out on behalf of his female peers. Rather than standing idly by as women fight for better representation at fests, the director is using his voice to add...
Television
Theresa Rebeck has a new show in the works. The “Smash” creator is taking on the world of gaming — and tackling its infamous misogyny. Deadline reports that YouTube has given a...
More than two months after she left social media in the wake of racist and sexist trolling, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” star Kelly Marie Tran is speaking out about the experience. The...
Sarah Paulson and Sandra Oh joined forces to talk about how far Hollywood has come — and how far it has to go — for a feature in Variety. Both are up for an Emmy Award this year —...
“There’s a common misconception that likens pregnancy to some kind of disability — the idea that women who are pregnant shouldn’t be active and can’t go about their normal lives,”...
Guest Posts
Guest Post by Morgan Lariah “Anatomy is destiny, and you, Morgan, are going to have a very hard time.” I was freshly 18 and a new student at Hollywood’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts when...
#TimesUp is taking on the world of film criticism. “Together we aspire to bring together a broader collective of entertainment critics [and] writers, each of whom are dedicated to the art of...
The “Girl on Fire” is looking to elevate and empower other women in the music industry. Alicia Keys has revealed that she’s working on a new initiative to “further female...
“I’m here to take responsibility for my actions and restate a call to action,” said Frances McDormand as she took the stage at Women in Film’s Crystal + Lucy Awards. “I have this...
Festivals
Last month Thierry Frémaux sparked international headlines when he signed a pledge for gender parity at Cannes Film Festival. The head of the fest, along with with his colleagues at the...
Research
The movies accessible to viewers often come down to film markets at major festivals. High-profile fests such as Cannes host markets where sales and distribution professionals present, buy, or pass...
Guest Post by Rebecca Harrison Last week, I published some preliminary findings from my research about gender and race in “Star Wars.” I’ve been a life-long fan of the films and...
The importance of underrepresented voices on-screen and behind the scenes is finally gaining traction in mainstream media, but a significant piece of the puzzle is often overlooked: the influence of...
Amy Adrion’s award-winning documentary about Hollywood’s gender problem is receiving a major endorsement from Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network, Discovery, and The Will and Jada Smith...
“I’ve had male friends say to me, ‘OK, you’re going too far with this Time’s Up shit!’ And I’m like, ‘What the fuck does that mean? I’m going too...
Hollywood obviously has a women problem — that’s no secret. However, when we discuss gender inequality in show business, higher-profile positions, such as actors, directors, producers,...
Sandra Bullock is among the highest-paid actresses in the world and an Oscar winner, but the “Ocean’s 8” star reveals that she nearly left the industry in a new interview with USA...
On Friday morning, people across the world watched as one of the kings of the Cannes Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein, turned himself into police and was arraigned on charges of rape and a criminal...
The latest Hollywood Reporter roundtable features TV actresses who portray women claiming — or reclaiming — power. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a sex worker making name for herself as an adult...
Variety is assembling industry heavyweights to discuss the next steps towards achieving gender equality. The pub is set to host its inaugural women’s summit, Path to Parity, on June 6, and the...
“Right now, we’re in a really special moment,” says Jane Campion in a new interview with The Guardian. Thanks to movements including #MeToo and #TimesUp, the entertainment industry seems to...
Diane Kruger is back in Cannes and offering a refreshingly honest take on what it’s been like to transition from acting to producing. When The Hollywood Reporter asked what she makes of the...
Gabrielle Union is tired of women being depicted as damsels in distress. In a candid interview with Vulture, the “Being Mary Jane” actress sounded off about what women “live with...
I’ve blogged twice about the sexist preview for “Planes,” and after seeing the movie today, I’m afraid I’ve got to blog about this awful scene once more. The sexist...
Lake Bell’s directorial debut, In A World…, is a hilarious and uncomfortable look into how deeply sexism can plague an industry. She stars as Carol Solomon, a struggling...
The Sapphires, which was released earlier this year, is about the true story of four indigenous women from Australia who are discovered by a talent scout and are sent to Vietnam to perform for the...
When I arrived at graduate school for theatre we were told to have read books entitled “Famous American Plays” of the 20s, 30s, 40s etc. before we arrived. I did as I was told and really...
Another list, and another list that another list that includes hardly any women – one to be exact. Sometimes I try to let these pass, but you can’t ignore a list put out by Spike...
I participated in a Huff Post Live conversation yesterday with some great folks including producer Lynda Obst about the lack of women on screen this summer. Check out our conversation.
During the lead up to this year’s Comic Con International, a Networked Insights analysis of social media conversation showed that 54% of people talking about the conference were women....
Check out Mod Carousel’s (a Seattle based boylesque troupe) reinvention of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”. The troupe rewrote the lyrics, re-recorded the song and redid...
Check out this new blog, Hollywood Boys Club, that compiles examples of “men only” in Hollywood. Current examples include the all male writing staffs of television shows like Real...
Why is a man always saving...
For the first time, PBS’ American Masters series is profiling a sports figure and we are glad that they chose Billie Jean King. The documentary focuses on King’s career as a tennis...
The Parents Television Counsel has released a new television study that looked at teen sexual exploitation on primetime television. They found that the primary target of the sexual exploitation were...
As we’ve reported about before, images aimed at young girls in the media don’t have much variety. As The Geena Davis Institute in Media has researched only 28.3% of speaking roles in...
I came across this interview from Go Into the Story with writer/director Liz W. Garcia whose film The Lifeguard premiered at Sundance in 2013 and will be coming out on August 30th. It’s a...
The folks over at Go Into the Story, the official Screenwriting blog of The Black List took a look at the gender divide in the world of spec scripts. Major props to Susana Orozco for doing...
The issue of gender parity in the theater, and celebrating more female writers, has been on my mind for a while now. Part of that is just out of a sense of fairness....
Recently, The Guardian took on a pretty huge task. They assessed how many male and female reviewers as well as the authors were reviewed in the major UK book sections for a month in...
Our most anticipated female centric movie of the summer, The Heat, is merely weeks away from its release. A U.K. promo image was unveiled for the film last week and Melissa McCarthy was looking very,...
The ladies at The Mary Sue shared a quote from the awesome Gina Torres, star of Firefly and Suits, about the industry’s sexism and sci-fi. I walk into a room, and for this industry, I’m...
Last week, in a conversation with Rep. Rosa DeLaura, D-Conn., Geena Davis spoke to the Motion Picture Association of American about the lack of opportunities and the dismal statistics for women...
Last week, we reported that Michelle Rodriguez, fed up with the writing of female characters, has been doing her own writing. And it looks like Heather Graham is doing the same thing. In an...
The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up Sunday evening with the announcement of the Palme D’Or and for a festival that continues to think and say that it does not have a “woman problem”...
We didn’t think that it was possible for Julianne Moore to be even more incredible. The acclaimed actress recently did an interview with DuJour magazine for their June issue. In it the...
After Star Trek Into Darkness premiered this weekend, my Twitter feed was in a frenzy discussing a scene where Dr. Carol Marcus (Alice Eve), a USS Enterprise science officer, suddenly and without...
A British study showed that as women television hosts age, they are increasingly pushed off screen. The study, which looked at BBC, Sky, ITN and Channel 5, tallied that out of 481 presenters at all...
As the Cannes Film Festival kicks off here is an infographic from French TV (and in French) that breaks down the difference between the US and French film industries. Here’s what the article...
Claire Messud’s latest novel, The Woman Upstairs, has been getting a ton of great critical buzz (and was also in the recent women’s fiction satire video Ron Charles released). In an...
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