#Shailene Woodley
Trailer Watch: Felicity Jones & Shailene Woodley Bring “The Last Letter From Your Lover” to Netflix
A journalist uncovers a secret romance from decades prior in “The Last Letter From Your Lover,” Augustine Frizzell’s latest. The Netflix pic sees Ellie (Felicity Jones) stumbling...
Felicity Jones & Shailene Woodley to Topline Augustine Frizzell’s “The Last Letter From Your Lover”
High-profile leading ladies have been cast for Augustine Frizzell’s latest. Back in August it was announced that the “Euphoria” director would helm a feature adaptation of...
Shailene Woodley to Star in “Adrift”
Shailene Woodley is attached to star in the film “Adrift,” Variety reports. Based on a true story, the site describes the project as “Gravity” on the high seas: “When Tami Oldham and her...
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley Saves Chicago from Destruction in ‘Allegiant’
A new trailer for “The Divergent Series: Allegiant” has landed, and the question at the forefront of everyone’s mind seems to be what the purpose of borders are. Do they divide or protect? And...
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...
‘Insurgent’ Opens With $101 Million Intl’l Box Office, Continues 2015’s Trend of Female-Centric Hits
Female moviegoers have made “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Cinderella,” and now “Insurgent” the three biggest live-action openings of the year so far. The “Divergent” sequel raked in $54...
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley Lets Her Anger Consume Her in Final ‘Insurgent’ Spot
The “Divergent” series’ ass-kicking heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley) is under a whole lot of pressure in the newest — and final — trailer for “Insurgent.” “This is the only...
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley is the Chosen One — and a Major Badass — in “Insurgent”
Women Made Up 15% of the Protagonists in the Top 250 Grossing Films in 2014
A warning: if you’re still reeling from the profoundly disappointing news that 100% of this year’s eight Oscar-nominated feature films are about men, this post is likely to make you even more...
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley is a Bona Fide Action Heroine in ‘Insurgent’
Why Young Women Are the Hottest Box Office Demographic
From my latest Forbes post on Hollywood’s curious negligence of young women as a box-office demographic: This weekend proves that women are actually a more reliable audience [than young men]. As I...
Crosspost: The Fault in Our Stars: Our Love Affair with Romance and Feminism
Pain demands to be felt. So goes one of the wise lines from John Green’s bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars. The line is prominently featured in the movie of the same title — and...
A Teachable Feminist Moment Courtesy of Shailene Woodley
Dear Shailene Woodley: I think you are a really talented young woman and I have enjoyed seeing you in several films and am actually very much looking forward to The Fault in Our Stars. But you kind...
Trailer Watch: Extended Spot for The Fault in Our Stars
An extended trailer has been released for The Fault in Our Stars, and it goes a long way in translating to a three-minute format one of the chief pleasures of John Green’s YA novel: the book’s...
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...
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...
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...
Trailer Watch: The Fault in Our Stars
Is there a way to tell a romance involving a teenage cancer patient that isn’t cheesy, exploitative, or politically regressive? Author John Green certainly tried to find a way with his...
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...
Two is Just Too Many Women for Spiderman to Deal With
I noticed on twitter some chatter earlier today about the fact that Shailene Woodley who is about to cover EW with her new film Divergent (which looks like it could be a real successor to The Hunger...