"moon" Articles & Blogs:
Will New Moon be the biggest film of the year?
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I spend a lot (too much) time in the twittersphere and the blogopshere and from the people I follow and read (lots of movie, TV and pop culture people and feminists) you’d never think that New Moon is opening next week. Granted all the movie folks hav...[Read on] |
New Moon brings a new dawn in Hollywood
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On Friday morning Hollywood woke up to the realization that fangirls can be as rabid as fanboys. By Saturday morning they realized that two BIG records had been broken, including the highest midnight screening opening and the best opening date in histor...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the Press
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Here are two pieces about New Moon where Women & Hollywood was featured last week.
From CNN.com – Hey Hollywood, the Fangirls are Calling:
But successful female-centric films often are dismissed as flukes instead of viewed as trends, says Melissa Silv...[Read on] |
Trafficking Victims at U.N. Highlight Need for Recognition
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UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)--The U.N. has held hearings and sessions on human trafficking many times before, where professional advocates and police authorities have offered evidence.
But an Oct. 22 gathering before an audience of several dozen, which i...[Read on] |
Audi says "Goodnight Moon" during the Super Bowl
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Most of us watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as much as for the game, if not more so. This year, Audi's new add titled "Goodnight" will be one of the more memorable ones from the evening.
The spot will follow a storyline pretty familiar to us...[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] |
What drives Edward Cullen? Volvo invites you to enter to win movie tickets...And maybe a Car!
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To celebrate the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie, Volvo is giving away two tickets to the world premiere in Los Angeles on November 16, 2009. To enter the sweepstakes for a chance to win the tickets, visit WhatDrivesEdward.com before Monday,...[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’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] |
Summit signs Bill Condon to direct 4th film in the Twilight saga
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I can’t say I am surprised, but I have to say I am dismayed. Summit has signed Bill Condon — who I believe is a very talented director and I have seen all his movies — to direct the 4th film in the Twilight saga – Breaking Dawn. There is a p...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak hearts Kid Cudi
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“I’ve got some missions that nobody can see, and all of these emotions are pouring out of me, I bring them to the light for you, it’s only right.” This quotation is from Kid Cudi’s single ‘Soundtrack 2 My Life’ off of the album Man on the Mo...[Read on] |
Nawal El Moutawakel on education of women and girls
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TAMPA/NEW YORK, Sept 22: IOC Executive Board member Nawal El Moutawakel was speaking out at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit being held in New York to support of education for women.
The Olympian i...[Read on] |
Precious kills at the box office
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This weekend catapulted Precious to the top of the Oscar list with a record setting debut in theatres. Let me say that again- RECORD SETTING DEBUT. It made $1.8 million dollars on a total of 18 screens. That is an average of $100,000 per screen whic...[Read on] |
2011 Empire State Building Run-Up
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The 34th annual NYRR Empire State Building Run-Up is set to take place on Tuesday, 1 February 2011. Who knew there was such a thing as a tower climbing competition? Apparently quite a few people.
The most famous stair race and, according to the organize...[Read on] |
Women Directors for Hire
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We all know that things suck for a woman wanting to direct films in Hollywood, especially a studio film. So what’s a talented woman director to do while waiting for the gender apartheid to end to make a living? The answer is anything and everything ...[Read on] |
The Women of Avatar
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I totally LOVED Avatar. It was a great forward thinking film with tons of passion and made me excited to be in a movie theatre. I can’t wait to see it again (my friend and I tried several times last weekend but were sold out.) Next time I am seein...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Darkness visible
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(Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.)
After all the adventures of the past few days, despite ...[Read on] |
Young women save The Lovely Bones
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Back in November The Lovely Bones was on all awards watchers list just due to Peter Jackson previous pedigree. No one had seen it, yet it was based on a best selling book and had awards potential written all over it. Then people starting seeing it and...[Read on] |
Twilight Eclipse arrives in five days
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It’s beginning.
I’m glad the din about this one has been a bit muted (at least in my world).
But that’s now over.
Several thousand people from across the country camped out for days in order to get a spot on the red carpet for last night’s pr...[Read on] |
Guess What? Women buy more movie tickets than men
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You know that whole conversation about how women don’t go to the movies and are not a film market? You know that conversation that we hear over and over as the big reason why we are inundated with crappy boy films week in and week out.
Well thanks to...[Read on] |
Women’s films kicking butt at the box office
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So Precious rolled out further this past weekend and continued to astound at the box office. The movie made it to number three for the week grossing over 5.8 million in just 174 theatres.
A little perspective: The Men Who Stared At Goats starring Georg...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: The Mind-Body Problem
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Karen Pittelman--poet, author, musician, activist, and writing coach extraordinaire--guest reviews for us this week. Thanks Karen!
It's the mark of a good poem when you absolutely must pull it out of your bag in the middle of the street and start reading...[Read on] |
Holiday Movie Preview- Lots for and about women
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I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontr...[Read on] |
Notice something about the guys in ads lately?
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According to a study done by NBC Universal, there's a new trend in advertising that is proving very effective at capturing the female consumer. According to the January data from Women at NBCU’s Brand Power Index, brands that embraced the “softer...[Read on] |
Drilling Down: The Blind Side’s Success
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I find it really funny — and telling — how the success of The Blind Side is still making people in Hollywood scratch their heads. This past weekend the LA Times took a long look at the making of the film.
First, it seems that Julia Roberts was the ...[Read on] |
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