"million-baby-crawl" Articles & Blogs:
Million Baby Crawl
| Oh baby! Seventh Generation has teamed up with noted advocate Erin Brockovich and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families in an effort to overthrow the old chemical legislation and require tougher standards and more testing.
A kick-off event took place yester...[Read on] |
Hollywood’s Top Earning Women
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Forbes has put together its first ever list on the top earning Hollywood women, and not surprisingly to me, half the top earners are over 40.
(PS this list is different from the list of highest earning women celebrities which came out earlier)
The list:...[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: 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] |
Women actors make way less money than men
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I’m sure this is no shock to anyone but the new Forbes list of top earning actresses is out and while some women earn a ton of money from acting and endorsements, they make way les than their male peers.
The top female earner was Angelina Jolie with $2...[Read on] |
Meg Whitman May Spend $50 Million of Own Money on Gov's Race
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The Former eBay CEO (and Fiscal Conservative) says she’ll spend big bucks to become California GovernorMeg Whitman | Today 10:10 amFormer eBay CEO Meg Whitman has officially thrown her hat into the ring for the Republican primary for California gove...[Read on] |
Alice in Wonderland – First $200 Million Movie of 2010
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So the first big hit of 2010 is a movie about a girl. Uh oh. Remember yesterday’s post about Degenderizing Disney? Funny thing is Alice in Wonderland over the last two weeks has made $221 million in the US and $221 million overseas is a Disney mov...[Read on] |
Pale male fail – Who makes the most in Hollywood
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Vanity Fair has put together a list of Hollywood’s highest film earners and not surprisingly, at the top of the list are all white men. The highest female on the list is Emma Watson who made $30 million for the latest Harry Potter films. ($15 million ...[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] |
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 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] |
Julia Roberts's 'Duplicity' Comes in Third at the Box Office — Why?
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The actress gets great reviews for ‘Duplicity,’ her first big role in years. But does she still have star power?Julia Roberts | Today 11:40 am
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Usually when a big Julia Roberts movie opens, you expect it to rule the box office. And &q...[Read on] |
Reflections on the Observe and Report Date-Rape Controversy
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I’m traveling this week so there will be very few posts. Here is the piece I wrote for the Women’s Media Center on the date-rape controversy surrounding Observe and Report.
Rarely does a film incite responses as diametrically opposed as the new ...[Read on] |
Today is World AIDS Day
| Today is World AIDS Day. Last year nearly a half million babies were born with HIV. More than 33 million people worldwide were living with HIV. That's up from 26.2 million in 1999. Despite that staggering statistic,AIDS organizations are making progress i...[Read on] |
Why Sarah Palin’s Alaska Lost Nearly Half Its Viewers
| Just as Sarah Palin fled her governorship, TLC viewers are also fleeing Alaska. Ratings are down 40 percent for Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the former vice-presidential candidate’s reality show. While 5 million people watched the series’ November 14 premi...[Read on] |
Sandra Bullock makes Box Office history
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Sandra Bullock started out 2009 pretty much off the Hollywood radar screen. She hadn’t made a movie for two years, and since most people never thought a woman over 40 could score box office successes, her upcoming films weren’t taken very seriously....[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] |
What Would You Do If You Won the Lottery?
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If asked this question, I know that many Ask Patty readers would say "I'd get a fancy new car." Well, that’s exactly what Cynthia Stafford did. She won a $112 million dollar jackpot, and went right out and picked out two new Bentleys—a baby-blue ...[Read on] |
Clinton: U.S. Seeking Two-State Solution for Israel, Palestine
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Secretary of state indirectly says Hamas shouldn’t expect to get any cash; shakes hands with Syrian official after years of no U.S.-Syria contactPost | Today 11:45 am
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Hillary Clinton entered Middle East politics with a splash Monday —...[Read on] |
Betty Thomas — $200 Million Director
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You know things are shifting a bit when Entertainment Weekly has a column that spotlights female directors at the box office the week after Kathryn Bigelow won at her Oscar.
They note in the that Betty Thomas (former actress on Hill Street Blues) who has...[Read on] |
Eclipse eclipses New Moon’s overnight numbers
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Even though this film seems to be coming in a bit under the radar screen it will have a big weekend and if you needed confirmation of that fact, the numbers from the midnight screenings are a good guidepost.
The film took in $30 million in midnight scr...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – Thanksgiving Weekend 2010
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Disney may want to rethink its decision to swear off princesses since Tangled had an impressive debut weekend landing in second place with $69 million. I would venture to say that there had to be at least a couple of boys in the theatre for it to have...[Read on] |
Sandra Bullock tops list of highest paid actresses
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According to Forbes, Sandra Bullock was the highest paid actress from July 2009 through June 2010. She earned an astounding $56 million off her two successes The Proposal and The Blind Side. She gambled — and won — on The Blind Side by taking le...[Read on] |
Accidentally on Purpose – Why couldn’t she consider abortion?
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Accidentally on Purpose, the new sitcom on CBS starring Jenna Elfman is based on the real life story and memoir of Mary Pols a film critic who is writing now for Time.
The show is about a woman played by Jenna Elfman who after a one night stand with a yo...[Read on] |
Tangled and The Black Swan Kick Box Office Butt
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Tangled overtook Harry Potter at the box office this weekend on its second weekend out and is close to making $100 million in just two weeks.
On the one hand its great that a woman centric film (ok, a princess centric film) is doing so great but it wil...[Read on] |
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