Features, Weekly Update
Films About Women Opening Before I Go To Sleep A taut thriller based on the worldwide best-selling novel by S.J. Watson, Before I Go To Sleep is the story of a woman (Nicole Kidman) who wakes up...
News, Videos
The necessary fight against GamerGate continues, with critic Anita Sarkeesian making one of her most prominent media appearances yet and game developer Brianna Wu announcing her intentions to start...
News, Women Executives
Another female executive is about to join the uppermost echelons of the film industry. Sources have confirmed that Stacey Snider will be named the co-chair of 20th Century Fox. That will make her...
Features, News
Timber heir George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) wanted “a wife and a partner” when he married Serena Shaw (Jennifer Lawrence). But his elegant, ambitious, scheming bride isn’t just a modern...
Awards, News
Gale Ann Hurd will receive the Producers Guild of America’s 2015 David O. Selznick Achievement Award. Hurd will be feted in a ceremony on January 24. “I am humbled to be mentioned in the same...
News, Television
After starring in seven seasons of The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick will trade her badge for a wimple — then her wimple for a shot at an ordinary life. The Emmy-winning actress will star as an...
Box Office, Trailers, Videos
News
One of the most moving and original aspects of Jill Soloway’s groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent is seeing a trans character’s life story play out in the context of her (troubled but...
Features, News, Women Directors
So this happened this week: And I was not at all surprised. But I want to offer somesolutions. Because really, what’s the point of complaining about anything ifyou’re not going to try to solve...
It seems like we’ve been waiting forever (and ever and ever) for Marvel and DC, the two comic-book conglomerates, to make a super-heroine movie. DC announced two weeks ago that Wonder Woman would...
News, Trailers, Videos, Women Directors
Awards, Features
There are a number of films vying for awards attention this year that feature a certain female trope that’s grown increasingly popular since the dawn of the 21st century — one that often...
News, Women Directors
Yesterday, my Twitter timeline exploded with the following tweet from French producer Charles Gillibert: While infuriating, sexist, and unjust, this sentiment really does not surprise me. Here’s...
News, Women Writers
One of the first projects coming out of Gloria Sanchez Productions — Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay’s new shingle for female-centric comedies — will be screenwriter April...
Here’s a new female filmmaker about to make it big: Tanya Wexler, who directed Maggie Gyllenhaal in the 2011 vibrator-themed period rom com Hysteria. Wexler will have the opportunity to tackle a...
We’ve been hearing raves about A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. And now first-time filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, who was nominated...
Interviews, News
News, Women Directors, Women Writers
Dear American readers: Your neighbors to the north are producing lots of original television and film content besides Degrassi and Atom Egoyan movies. Also, we — — much like you — are...
News, Theater, Women Writers
Katori Hall, the Olivier Award-winning playwright of The Mountaintop, will direct a screen adaptation of another one of her works. Hall will helm Hurt Village, her 2011 play about the dissolution...
News, Television, Videos
Lone Scherfig, the director of Italian for Beginners, An Education, One Day, and most recently The Riot Club, has begun casting her next project. The Danish filmmaker will adapt Lissa Evans’...
Interviews, News, Theater
Originally published on and cross-posted with permission from The Interval. Let’s just start with some facts. Susan Stroman has won five Tony Awards and has received an additional nine...
Documentary, News
After exposing the endemic rates of and barriers to justice regarding rape in the military in the Oscar-nominated The Invisible War, documentary director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering will...
Films About Women Opening Laggies — Directed by Lynn Shelton; Written by Andrea Seigel “Suck it up, go with your gut.” That’s the advice Seattle late-twentysomething Megan (Keira...
After helming Pitch Perfect 2 as her directorial debut, Elizabeth Banks will go behind the camera once more, this time for the small screen. Banks will executive produce and direct the ABC comedy...
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...
Documentary, Features, News, Women Directors
Young women often ask me what my greatest challengeis when making a film. It is hard to choose just one. I’m very instinctual in my work. I followstories and characters that hit me on a gut...
“Suck it up, go with your gut.” That’s the advice Seattle late-twentysomething Megan (Keira Knightley) gives to adolescent Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz) at the end of Lynn Shelton’s most...
Every year, Tracking Board publishes the “Young and Hungry” list — 100 screenwriters on the verge of making it big, voted on by “Hollywood’s most influential powers.” This year, 29...
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s takeover of TV — or at least my TV — continues. Fey and Poehler each announced new projects for the small screen yesterday. Fey will collaborate with...
Awards
Aaaaaand, we’re off! Award season officially began today with the announcement of the nominations for the Gotham Independent Film Awards, “a bellwether for indie titles and talent,” according...
Features, News, Television
Mild spoilers below for the first two episodes of The Affair. Is Showtime’s The Affair more about her side than his? Co-creator Sarah Treem (with In Treatment colleague Hagai Levi; like the show,...
Family — love them, hate them, or the complicated in-between, they are rarely easy. In the semi-autobiographical Latino-Jewish comedy Sleeping with the Fishes, Lexie Fish (Gina Rodriguez, now...
Meryl Streep has signed on to her first biopic project since her Oscar-nominated turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Variety reports that Streep is set to star in Florence as a “New York...
Walt Disney Animation Studios has finally released some information about Moana, an animated adventure set in the South Pacific expected to arrive in late-2016. The film will focus on its titular...
From my latest Forbes post about the the media’s reaction to Renee Zellweger’s new look at Elle Magazine‘s annual event honoring women in Hollywood and what it says about feminism and aging in...
Awards, Features, News
Take a look at Keira Knightley in her most recent perfume ad for Chanel from earlier this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZAZD3ylG6Y So gorgeous. So come hither-y. So female James Bond in...
Ida Lupino was the first mainstream American female filmmaker to make movies within the Hollywood system since thebeginning of film censorship in the 1930s. She is often cited by feministfilm...
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Gena Rowlands will receive the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s career achievement prize during its annual awards ceremony next year on January 10. Rowlands’ career encompasses six decades...
Television has changed a great deal since The Comeback was last on the air a decade ago, but it’s a fair guess that showbiz narcissism hasn’t. Perhaps that’s why Lisa Kudrow’s mockumentary...
Cross-posted with permission from The Interval. When we saw the announcement of Romola Garai’s casting in Indian Ink, we e-mailed The Roundabout right away — seriously, like within ten...
Documentary, Festivals, Women Directors
It’s generally not hard to find female-directed features at documentary film festivals, since women filmmakers face less obstacles in the nonfiction world. This year’s DOC NYC Film Festival...
Marley & Me, the 2008 dramedy about the death of Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston’s beloved labrador retriever, is the latest film to be adapted for TV. Jenny Bicks, best known as a writer on...
There were no less than twelve femalemembers of the cast and crew on stage to introduce The Falling at its world premiere at the London Film Festival, andit made for quite a sight. One of the most...
We often talk about the need for diversity in Hollywood, but we rarely talk about how to do it. This leaves us with the clumsy approach in practice today, as writer Beejoli Shah discovered last...
The Oscars have demonstrated a stinginess toward Julianne Moore over the years, but other institutions have been lining up to shower the actress with trophies and accolades. After winning the Best...
Films About Women Opening Dear White People Sam White (Tessa Thompson) is a media studies major and student filmmaker determined to tell the world that things are far from where they should be. She...
Documentary, Features, News
In 2009 there was a swarm of news reports aboutpiracy off the coast of Africa. I got intrigued by the subject because of thethrilling hijack stories, but almost immediately focused on the Somali...
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