Elizabeth Banks Pulled Out of Directing Pitch Perfect 3 Because of Her Kids
Elizabeth Banks backed out of directing Pitch Perfect 3 because of motherhood duties, she said at a conference panel on Saturday.
Feds Are Investigating Gender Discrimination in Hollywood
The U.S. EEOC and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs are currently in the midst of investigating possible instances of unfair gender-based hiring practices in Hollywood. Not sure what they think they’ll find.
Creed Director Ryan Coogler Says Women Are Better Filmmakers
Creed director and noted man Ryan Coogler thinks women are better filmmakers than men, which is a nice thing to say.
Female Director Says Hollywood Isn't Actually Trying to Hire Women
Director Lexi Alexander received an Oscar nomination for her short film Johnny Flynton in 2003. Since then, she's directed movies like Green Street Hooligans (which she also wrote) and Punisher: War Zone. And this week, shortly before no women were nominated for Best Director, she took to her blog to write about the…
Woman Director Told She Didn't Get Job Because of Missing Penis
There's no business like show business. Unless, of course, you're a woman; and then it's just like every other business in the world: seriously fucked. I thought Hollywood was supposed to be a liberal progressive bastion, a place that embraces our differences and broadcasts them to the world in one big fucking kumbaya…
Bret Easton Ellis: Women Can't Direct
"I've gotta stop saying 'Women can't direct,'" tweeted Bret Easton Ellis after seeing Fish Tank. And yet here he is today, saying it again. You see, women lack a necessary implement (no, not a penis): "the male gaze."
Breaking: Hollywood Dominated By White Male Directors
The New York Times' Michael Cieply scanned the big studio schedules and reports that "Hollywood directors are pretty much what they have always been." White. And male. Women & Hollywood's Melissa Silverstein says: "No shit, Sherlock."
Campion The Champion
[Cannes, May 15. Image via Getty]
