"juno" Articles & Blogs:
Three Cheers for Diablo!
 |
It's official...one of our favorite BUST-y ladies, Diablo Cody, has sold a pilot to Fox! So far, the only thing anyone knows is that it is called The Breadwinner and it's a comedy. I can only imagine where it could possibly go from there. My mind is runni...[Read on] |
Recession, health care, and roller derby
| I was just talking to a friend the other day about how roller derby is such a hot topic in sport studies because it's a great venue for examining gender roles, subversion, aggression, alternative sport, sexuality, and a host of other things.And of course ...[Read on] |
Women at the Top
 |
Nancy Utley has been promoted to the presidency of Fox Searchlight Pictures. She shares the title with Stephen Giula. Utley has been making Fox Searchlight quite hot of late as the COO overseeing marketing and distribution of movies like Juno to the t...[Read on] |
Diablo Cody sells her next script
 |
I’m glad that the lack of box office success of Jennifer’s Body has not prevented Cody from selling her next script — Young Adult to Mandate Pictures, the company that produced Juno.
However, I’m a bit apprehensive about the description:
The “...[Read on] |
Interview with Allison Janney
 |
I’ve been a big fan of Janney since I saw her onstage over a decade ago in A View from the Bridge and LOVED her as CJ Cregg on the West Wing. I recently saw her as Violet in 9 to 5, a show much maligned by critics but loved by audiences. She’s als...[Read on] |
Megan Fox Donates Music Video Earnings To Battered Women Shelter
 |
I just decided to like Ms. Fox a tiny bit more today. Turns out the money she earned working on Eminem's Love the Way You Lie music video was donated to a shelter for battered women. With the recession and federal funding down across the country for wom...[Read on] |
Jennifer's Body
 |
Jennifer's Body, the latest from 31-year-old feminist screenwriter Diablo Cody (of Juno fame), is hitting theaters September 18th and already it's causing quite the buzz. The Times ran an interesting story this weekend about how Cody and her crew tried to...[Read on] |
The Award Season: The Status of Women
 |
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] |
The Fempire — Women Supporting Women
 |
(l-r) Dana Fox, Diablo Cody, Liz Meriwether, Lorene Scafaria - photo by Amy Dickerson for NY Times
The NY Times in a Style section piece yesterday reported this bizarro notion that there are women screenwriters in Hollywood that support and root for each...[Read on] |
Happy Mother's Day from Ask Patty
 |
Are you a mom? Do you remember your first Mother’s Day? What did you
think of it? Did it live up to the hype? Do you go all out, or just
relax at home?Mother’s
Day is celebrated on different days of the year in various countries.
Here in the U.S., it...[Read on] |
Presentation from Panel on Abortion in Popular Culture
 |
Last week I moderated a panel on abortion and popular culture at the National Abortion Federation annual meeting. It was amazing and humbling to be in a place with people who put themselves on the line each and every day when they go to work because the...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend: June 5
 |
After a long drought there are a few choices this weekend especially for those folks in the NY area. The widest release this weekend is My Life in Ruins, Nia Vardalos’ return to Greece and the big screen after a long absence. Vardalos has been everywh...[Read on] |
The 10 Toughest Ladies of Film
 |
For years women have been kicking butt and taking names but very few of them ever get the recognition they deserve. One place this isn’t true is on film. Although the following 10 ladies may not all be real they are all fine examples of powerful, toug...[Read on] |
New Research: Women fare better in the indie movie world
|
File this under no shit sherlock, but new research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented on independent films that appear in film festivals than in the top grossing big budget f...[Read on] |
Sundance 2011 – The U.S. Competition
 |
The competition in both the dramatic and documentary categories for the 2011 edition of the Sundance Film Festival were announced yesterday. Women directed 25% of the films in dramatic and 43% of the films in the documentary competitions respectively....[Read on] |
The Most Powerful Women in Hollywood according to Nikki Finke
 |
Tonight in Hollywood Elle Magazine will host the annual salute to women in Hollywood. I am looking forward to the day when we don’t need to highlight women because they will have as much power as men, but in reality, women are nowhere near as powerful...[Read on] |
|
|
