#Twilight
Catherine Hardwicke Discusses “Don’t Look Deeper,” “Twilight,” “Thirteen,” & More with the Girls Club
Catherine Hardwicke hardly needs an introduction — she’s been in our lives for a very long time making some great movies, starting with “Thirteen,” and breaking new ground...
Catherine Hardwicke on “Twilight’s” 10th Anniversary and Breaking Down Stereotypes
It’s been a decade since Bella and Edward’s love story galvanized audiences comprised mostly of women and teen girls. “Twilight’s” box office success helped prove the...
Patti Smith on ‘Twilight’-Haters: “F*ck Them”
Patti Smith: singer, poet, artist, Twi-hard? We jest, but it’s certainly refreshing to see the punk goddess defend the success and popularity of the much-maligned “Twilight” movies. In a...
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...
“No One Can Say it’s a Level Playing Field” — Catherine Hardwicke Ignites Discussion on Women Directors
Catherine Hardwicke, director of Thirteen and Twilight, spoke candidly to Variety about her career. After Hardwicke directed Twilight, which was a huge deal for a woman director, she admitted that...
Interview with Jerusha Hess – Writer and Director of Austenland
Women and Hollywood: Can you talk a little bit about what drew you to this project? Jerusha Hess: I got the book from the author. I had no idea about the book. I was interested in another project...
Sony Pictures Classics Only Counting on Women for Austenland
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has made a calculated decision that the audience for the upcoming Jerusha Hess (who co-wrote Napoleon Dynamite) directed film will be predominantly women. They are...
Weekly Update March 1: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Stoker – Starring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman Director Park Chan-Wook’s first English language film (fitting in well with his revenge trilogy...
2012 The Year in Review
We took a look back on the news for women in and around Hollywood in 2012 and here are the topics we think resonated this past year. Let us know what you think and if we missed any big news of...
A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series
I had the opportunity to speak with the hugely successful and very interesting screenwriter and TV writer Melissa Rosenberg last week while she was on the set of her new show Red Widow. Women...
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Crushes the Box Office
Unsurprisingly, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 killed it at the box office this weekend. Overseas it grossed $340.9 million, making it the best global opening of the franchise. Back on US shores it...
Guest Post: Bella Swan and Me
This weekend, the fifth and final installment of the Twilight franchise opened, and to no one’s surprise, killed at the box office. Conversations about the film will undoubtedly focus on the...
Book Excerpt: Fanpire: The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love It
From the Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone As I sit attentively in the lecture “So Many Species, So Little Time: The Men of Twilight,” a teenage girl wearily plunks herself down beside...
Cross Post: Why The Twilight Saga Film Franchise Mattered, What it Accomplished, and Why its Legacy is Ultimately a Positive One
In just one month The Twilight Saga film franchise will come to an end. Oh sure we may see spin-offs, reboots (probably in a different medium) and/or quasi-sequels in some form in another, but the...
Today’s Lesson — You Can’t Please the Twihards
Today I learned an important lesson which I probably already should have known. The people who care about all things Twilight — the fans of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are intense....
Guest Post: A Fan Speaks — Kristen Stewart and Our Miserable Failure
The media stoning of Kristen Stewart, of Twilight fame, has been going on for about four weeks now. About a month ago, she was pictured having a fling, which she called a “momentary...
Kristen Stewart Covers Vanity Fair and Tells Off The Voracious, Starving Shit Eaters
Fame is a bitch for Kristen Stewart. She used to be the kind of actress where as she said she could sit on her stoop and smoke pot in her underwear with her boyfriend and dog and nobody would care....
Who Should Direct Catching Fire?
So now it is official and Gary Ross has walked away from directing the sequel of Catching Fire because the production schedule was too tight. Here’s what he said: As a writer and a director, I...
Guest Post: A Feminist Defense of 50 Shades of Grey
50 Shades of Grey is happening, it’s happening big, and it’s happening for women. I jumped on the band wagon after reading that the books were initially created as Twilight fan-fic (Twilight...
Trailer Watch: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Teaser
The saga will conclude next Thanksgiving. Looks like Bella’s going to have some fun in this one.