In an interview with The Independent, director John Carney spoke about the process of making his 2014 film Begin Again. He called Mark Ruffalo a “fantastic actor.” He said Adam Levine is “a joy to work with.” But when mentioning Keira Knightley, the film’s female lead, he had some markedly different comments.
Appearing at Variety and Kering’s Women in Motion talk at the Cannes Film Festival, director and actress Jodie Foster spoke out about the trope—often applied by male film makers—of using rape as the lone source of female character development.
Veteran screenwriter and executive producer Marti Noxon—whose credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Mad Men, Glee, and UnREAL—is set to make her directing debut with To the Bone, a dark comedy about having an eating disorder.
With the launch of a new initiative through its Spaces program, YouTube is giving female filmmakers opportunities to create woman-centric content through its site.
Filmmaker Ross Putman struck a nerve Tuesday night when he started a Twitter account that only tweets the first descriptions of female characters in film scripts. Surprise surprise: they’re usually pretty sexist.
Aidy Bryant, one of the more recent gems in the comedy crown of Saturday Night Live, has directed a short film called Darby Forever for Vimeo’s Share the Screen initiative. It co-stars your favs Retta and Natasha Lyonne and—based on the trailer—looks utterly weird and delightful.
Speaking at the Hollywood Reporter’s 2015 Women in Entertainment breakfast, actor/writer/director Lena Dunham kicked things off with a joke, saying, “I am seated near Kris Jenner. It doesn’t have to be a big deal for you, but it is for me.” The camera then cut to the crowd—a crowd that mysteriously included Dunham…
In a crackling profile in the new issue of GQ, Cate Blanchett gets candid (and increasingly tipsy) with writer Zach Baron. The portion of their conversation that focuses on gender in the film industry—a topic Blanchett is ready to move beyond—is particularly worth reading:
As public focus on diversity in the film industry intensifies, it’s more important than ever to highlight the work of the amazing and talented women who have devoted their careers to film production. This is why I jumped at the chance to interview Eve Stewart, an Oscar-nominated production designer who has been…
Prior to its second season premiere date, True Detective made headlines after hiring several porn actresses for what the Hollywood Reporter called a “deliriously vast orgy sequence involving dozens of naked bodies in Eyes Wide Shut-caliber sex antics.” Turns out that, according to a new report by LA Weekly, True…
Are you a filmmaker with dreams of making female-driven comedies that are packed with quippy dialogue and retro pop culture references? Well, good news! Your patron saint Diablo Cody is over at The Cut doling out life advice (and talking about 90210).
Did you know that only 93 percent of films released by major studios last year were directed by men? And that only 70 percent of speaking roles in films are given to men? It’s a real tragedy, and finally, women are banding together to do something about it. This is powerful stuff.
Geena Davis is launching a film festival dedicated to highlighting diversity in film and securing distribution for the winning films. The Bentonville Film Festival will take place in Bentonville, Alabama from May 5-9 and will screen an estimated 75 films.
Fair warning; this infographic about women directors from Women and Hollywood is totally fucking depressing. This is not a happy unicorn rainbow cake with a puppy post.
Hollywood dreams do come true! For hyper-competent billionaires, anyway. Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has purchased the film rights to Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto.
According to Forbes magazine, Emma Stone brings movie studios the best return on their investment: for every $1 they paid her for her last three movies, she earned $80.70 for them. So what does this finding mean for women in Hollywood?
In spite of all the criticism Hollywood has faced recently for its awful female-to-male director ratio, women are still being widely discriminated against in the film industry. Maybe, being a generally optimistic person, you might be inclined to think that things are a little more equal outside of the US. What about…
A new study reveals that, as you already knew, it's not super great to be a woman in the film industry. The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism found that 2012, women held less than a third of speaking roles in high-grossing pictures, the lowest that number has been since 2007. That means that the…
A quarter. That's one fourth (0.25 for the fraction phobic), or, in terms the notoriously math deficient faction of humanity that educators term "women" can best understand, not a whole lot. It's also the number Cathy Shulman reminded her audience of at the Women in Film's fifth annual pre-Oscar party when she pointed…
With the recent smashing success of Bridesmaids, much has been made about women in film. Supposedly, this one comedy proved once and for all that 1) People with uteruses can be funny 2) Female-fronted films need not be pandering 3) Men will actually pay to see movies with female leads, and 4) Carrots can be sexy. Now…
