Between the two of them, producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward have a long string of impressive credits in Hollywood. Now, the women have decided to join forces to form a new production company focusing on television and film projects.
My brain melted on Saturday night and I can blame it all on Scarlett Johansson in the Luc Besson-directed Lucy. But I’m not the only one; the female-led film bested the box office beating out even the baby oil-covered Hercules. Hollywood, let us use this opportunity to once again remind you that ladies like movies!
One of the Big 6 Hollywood studios has optioned a comedy focusing on women in the workplace and written by Laura Solon.
A hashtag on Twitter is helping highlight women working in Hollywood and encouraging the industry to take note of them.
Growing up can be a bit of a bloodbath for everyone, regardless of gender. And when it comes to how the actual gory details of the process are portrayed on film, young female characters don't often get the same freedom to explore the dark side of the process that young men do, unless you happen to be watching a horror…
As usual, there are quite a few dude-centric flicks coming this summer — from Iron Man to Man of Steel to This Is The End, Lone Ranger and Wolverine. (Not to mention The Internship, World War Z, White House Down, Pacific Rim, Grown-Ups 2, 2 Guns.) And although two women — Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy — star in…
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…
Capote. Ray. Malcolm X. Nixon. Milk. Ali. Chaplin.
No matter how you feel about Twilight — love it or hate it — the phenomenon has been one of the biggest stories to come out of the movie industry in the last five years. Now that the series is ending, Melissa Rosenberg, who penned all of the scripts for the Twilight franchise, talked to Women And Hollywood about the…
Late last week, DreamWorks Animation's Chairman of the Board of Directors, Roger Enrico, resigned. Now it's been announced that Mellody Hobson is the new Chairman of the Board for the company. Forty-three-year-old Hobson is the president of Ariel Investments, a firm based in Chicago that manages over $3 billion in…
The last couple of years have been pretty good for women on television, with new ladycentric programs like The Mindy Project, Girls, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls (so many girls) and Don't Trust The B— In Apt. 23. But while women are more visible in front of the camera, a recept report claims that they're completely missing…
Thirty years ago, moody sci-fi film Blade Runner hit theaters, with Harrison Ford and Sean Young as the stars of a robot-human tale set in a dystiopain futuristic Los Angeles. The story, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, will soon get a sequel, director Ridley Scott says.…
The 65th Cannes Film Festival is kicking off as we speak, and some 30,000 people gather in the sunny South of France — directors, producers, glamourous stars — in the name of cinema. Films from all over the world are screened. Often, good buzz at Cannes can launch a small film into a global sensation (last year's The…
Screenwriter Andrea Portes, whose novel Hick has been made into a feature film starring Chloe Grace Moretz, recalls that after one preview screening a middle-aged male viewer commented, "I can see making a coming-of-age story about a boy. But when it's a girl... it's just creepy."
Wow, there were a lot of very impressive woman-directed films this year, none of which got Best Director nominations. But, hey, at least the Academy is recognizing dark horses like Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. That's some sort of progress, right?
That's the premise of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, an apocalyptic romcom crashing into theaters this summer. The title seems to be based on a song by Chris Cornell, and the plot unfolds thusly: An asteroid named Mathilda is heading towards Earth, and people are trying to figure out what the fuck to do…
Could raunchy, lady-oriented comedy Bridesmaids get an Oscar nod for Best Picture? Maybe! The flick has already earned two SAG award noms and two Golden Globe noms. Now "Oscar Experts" have placed Bridesmaids on the Top 10 list of predicted nominees for Best Picture.
In the last decade or so, women have been inundated with movies created "for" us — cloying romantic comedies in which the heroine is charming but clumsy/insecure/desperate; in which she can have a "cool" job but can never truly successful. And, as we learned in that Tad Friend piece about Anna Faris in The New Yorker…
I spend most of my time checking out films by and about women. But I believe it's equally important to see other types of films, which is why I watched The Town.
