"debra-messing" Articles & Blogs:
Hollywood Deals
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Some interesting things in the works:
Shana Feste (The Greatest) has been hired by Hilary Swank’s 2S Films to adapt the novel “You’re Not You” and direct it for the big screen. The debut novel of Michelle Wildgen, “You’re Not You” is about ...[Read on] |
Bette Midler talks women and funny
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I can’t think of the last time I saw a movie starring Bette Midler that wasn’t on a basic cable station. I remember a time when she was everywhere. Guess its been over a decade now since her last good movie which I feel is The First Wives Club....[Read on] |
Sundance Awards Watch: Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone takes the Top Prize
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What a weekend for female directors!
First, Kathryn Bigelow wins the DGA award putting her in the drivers seat for the Oscar, and almost simultaneously, Debra Granik took the Grand Jury Prize for her film Winter’s Bone. That makes Granik two for two ...[Read on] |
Fall 2010 TV Season – Shows Created by Women
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The fall lineups have been set (including some mid-season shows) so it’s time to see how women creatives have fared.
Here’s what we have been able to find out (research assistance from Stephanie Rosenfeld)
Fox – Five new shows- no female creators
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America Ferrara of 'Ugly Betty' Speaks Up About Latinas' Education
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by Debra Eichenbaum, Intern, National Women’s Law Center
We were thrilled to hear that America Ferrara, star of Ugly Betty, is using her influence to bring attention to the extraordinarily high dropout rate among Latina high school students. Las...[Read on] |
Women’s Weekend Box Office Report June 25-27
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Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone crossed the $1 million dollar mark this past weekend and is now playing on 70 screens including some in the midwest near where the film takes place. The film cost $2 million and it looks promising for it to pay back it...[Read on] |
Winter’s Bone Scores Multiple Indie Spirit Nominations
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Winter’s Bone the big winner at the Gotham awards on Monday evening scored seven nominations for the 26th Independent Spirit Awards. The awards will be given out the day before the Oscars on February 26th.
The Kids Are All Right was right behin...[Read on] |
Women’s Weekend Box Office Report – July 4th Holiday
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To no one’s surprise, Twilight Eclipse opened big, almost as big as New Moon. Here are the numbers:
The first six days of Eclipse brought in $175 million domestic and another $100 million overseas. New Moon’s domestic gross was $178 in six days...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – June 11-13
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It was good weekend for women’s films at the box office. Both Winter’s Bone directed by Debra Granik and Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work directed by Ricki Stern and co-directed by Annie Sundberg cracked the $20,000 per screen average. At 7 theatres...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: August 13-15
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The dynamic of the weekend was set up as adversarial all week.
Will the girls beat the boys? Will the boys punch the girls? No wonder we are still so fucked up about gender at the movies. If we didn’t set the movies up as an us vs. them dynamic...[Read on] |
Right-wing shock jocks: Now attacking children
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This is reprehensible (trigger warning). I’m not going to quote from the piece because it’s really sickening, but the gist is this: Right-wing radio jocks in Sacramento attacked transgender kids, calling them horrible names and basically enco...[Read on] |
Orange Women’s Fiction Nominees
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I love listing awards that focus on women cause we always get exposed to so many women we otherwise would probably never hear of. Here’s this year’s longlist for the Orange Women’s Fiction Prize. Clearly you can tell from the list there are some w...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: July 23-25
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Salt starring Angelina Jolie didn’t make it to number 1 thanks to the growing cultural obsession with Inception (which I liked a lot), but it was number 2 for the weekend bringing in a total of $36.5 million (the budget is estimated to be between $110...[Read on] |
In the Heart of the Muslim World, Obama Delivers a Message to Women Everywhere
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by Debra Eichenbaum, Legal Intern, National Women's Law Center
When President Obama spoke at Cairo University last week, press outlets from around the world covered his overtures of peace and reconciliation to the Muslim world. Without doubt, it was an...[Read on] |
The Kids Are All Right scores big at the box office this weekend
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It was a great weekend for women at the box office.
The Kids Are All Right directed and co-written by Lisa Cholodenko opened in five markets at a total of 7 theatres and grossed a whopping $504,888. That is a per screen average of $72,127. That is ...[Read on] |
Sundance 2010- The Competition Lineup
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The Sundance Film Festival released a good amount of the lineup for the next festival and it looks at first glance to be dark and very boy oriented. Women account for only 4 out of the 16 (25%) of dramatic films in competition. Women are better repres...[Read on] |
Women’s Summer Box Office Recap
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The weather is changing here in NYC, the kids are getting ready to go back to school and the fall film festivals are upon us, so before too much time passes let’s take a look at how women fared this summer at the box office.
We all know that in gener...[Read on] |
Women are Everywhere: National Book Critics Circle Finalists
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Remember way back in November when Publisher’s Weekly came up with a list of the top 10 books (not best selling books) of the year and not a single one was written by a woman? Lo and behold the National Book Critics Circle disagrees a bit and has nomi...[Read on] |
Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: September 22, 2009 - Here She Is Again, Right on Time
| Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3", song #5 ("Empire State of Mind") blasted through my Jetta's speakers on the way back from my massage tonight...
And since I made it here, I can make it anywhere...
When I got home, I fed the baby, changed into running ...[Read on] |
Does being an “Artist” trump being a Rapist
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So much has been written about the Roman Polanski saga of late. The lingering questions of why after 30 years did the prosecutors decide now was the time to arrest him. The fact that the victim wants to move on. The amount of resources being spent o...[Read on] |
The Award Season: The Status of Women
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Last week there were two pieces written about women and the awards season. The first from Sharon Waxman in the Wrap lamented the fact that films that star women are being crowded out of the best picture field (like that’s news?); and the second ...[Read on] |
'Orgasm Inc.' Debunks Female Sexual Dysfunction
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(WOMENSENEWS)--February is Cupid's time, but Hollywood isn't showing much love for women this month. It's slim pickings when it comes to feature films of particular interest to women.
Though Hollywood isn't delivering our heart's deli...[Read on] |
If you’re a chick who dares to dream big, add these to your list
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Though few would argue that women have made significant progress in the last fifty years, most would agree that the playing field has yet to be entirely leveled when it comes to promotions, job opportunities, and high-profile projects.
Despite the fact t...[Read on] |
Roman Polanski: The silence is deafening
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It seems that I am now officially obsessed with the Roman Polanski insanity. As I’ve gone further down this rabbit hole I find my compatriots on the internet to be with me in force but others who I expected to hear from are just silent.
The silence i...[Read on] |
Top 10 Comic Book Heroines & Villains of All Time
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From six-foot tall Amazon beauties to mind-controlling mutants, the heroines and villains of history’s most enduring comic books have redefined the boundaries of female empowerment and strength. No longer are feminine roles confined to screaming on top ...[Read on] |
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