During a Steve Jobs screening on Monday night in New York, the movie’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explained his approach to writing female characters, which has long been a major point of criticism against him.
Amazing Amy Pascal is a treasure. She is a camp goddess who should become a legendary drag icon. You hear me, queens? Put DOWN that chunky blonde Sia wig and slip into the fiery Medusa curls of Amazing Amy, Earth Mother and Destroyer. Lo, it is Amazing Amy who destroyed the Jobs movie; it is Amy who offered her…
Fresh off the most dramatic few months of her life, and a subsequent job reassignment, Amy Pascal will produce the long-discussed Sony Pictures remake of Little Women, a classic Louisa May Alcott book that has already gotten a few movies of its own. What...to...do...with...this...intel.
In an interview with veteran magazine editor Tina Brown at a conference in San Francisco this week, fired ex-Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal talked for the first time about the impact of the Sony hacks on her career (bad). She also talked about the need for more women in movies, and, in virtually the same breath,…
Deadline is reporting that (as everyone with awareness of crisis management tactics was predicting) Amy Pascal will be leaving her position as the head of Sony Pictures and will "launch a major new production venture at the studio." Coincidentally, a lengthy profile about Pascal, The Interview and the Sony Hack for…
It was "a week of tumult" and "invective" at the New York Times, the former Timeser felt, gazing over all the shattered dishware left in the wake of publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger's abrupt and controversial ouster of executive editor Jill Abramson. But there were also lessons to be learned, and hugs and pats on…
It was only a matter of time: New York Post now has its very own Pascalizer, that is, an Amy Pascal voice generator. Just enter any text, click "NOW CLICK HERE TO PASCALIZE IT!" and voilà. Suddenly you have a doggedly up-front and douchey email in all-caps, with notes of tired racism. Now you too can sound like a…
In the midst of those emails between Sony executives concluding that black actors don't play well overseas, it seems Idris Elba is an outlier—a particularly sexy outlier. Embattled Sony Head Amy Pascal declared via email that the Brit should be the next James Bond.
Amy Pascal, the head of Sony's film division, is probably going to lose her job. The story is long, but the facts are simple: With Seth Rogen and James Franco's The Interview cancelled, Pascal's department has taken something north of $50 million of Sony's money and lit it on fire in the most spectacular and…
Among the biggest stories coming from Sony's hacking crisis, the botched attempt to make a Steve Jobs movie stands out, revealing an ugly relationship between top Sony Pictures exec Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin. We've now found emails that tell the other side of the story.
Last Friday, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal was honored at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center gala. In her speech, she took more than a moment to reflect on LGBTQ representation in movies — the problems and the solutions.
OMFG it's here. Eat, Pray, Love premiered last night at NYC's Ziegfeld Theatre. And while I regret to inform you Franco was MIA, there was enough star-power and eye-candy — sartorial or otherwise — to please the most discerning seeker.
Names you may not know, but should: Team Todd, (producing Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland); Amy Pascal, co-chair of Sony Pictures; Stacey Snider, CEO and Co-chair of DreamWorks; The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow… and seven more. [Forbes.com]
