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Please Give written and directed by Nicole Holofcener
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To me, a new film from writer/director Nicole Holofcener is a reason to rejoice. One reason is because she unapologetically tells stories from a female perspective. But one would be remiss and quite frankly an idiot to paint her work with the chick fl...[Read on] |
Frances McDormand Takes on a New Role – Producer
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Actress Frances McDormand can add an new title to her resume – producer now that she has optioned two books.
The first is the Pulitzer Prize winning book Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. She purchased the book before it won the Pulitzer. Jan...[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] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Nicole Kidman
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While I’m sure that Lindsay Lohan getting out of jail will get more attention, Nicole Kidman went down to Haiti last week with UNIFEM to raise awareness about sexual violence against women in the wake of the earthquake ove...[Read on] |
Tribeca Line-Up Part 2
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Yesterday, Tribeca released the films that will play in the Encounters, Discovery, Cinemania and Spotlight sections.
Here are the women directed films:
Encounters- Zero out of 14
Discovery- (3 out of 17)
brilliantlove, directed by Ashley Horner, writt...[Read on] |
The Syvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama by Nicole Hollander
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I have been a big fan of Nicole Hollander’s for some time. Her Sylvia cartoons appear in 30 newspapers across the country including The Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle (online) The San Francisco Examiner, and she is represented by the Tribune Media ...[Read on] |
Dolls team with AR Rahman for Slumdog’s Jai Ho
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The Pussycat Dolls have teamed up with two time Oscar winner A.R. Rahman for an English interpretation of the song “Jai Ho!”, the spectacular finale to the Oscar winner for Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire.
Listen here for a preview of A.R. Rahman a...[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] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend
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There are a several movies opening this weekend in limited release and both American Violet and Lemon Tree open wider.
American Violet opens in Boston; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Houston; Austin and Seattle. Here’s my interview with Regina Kelly wh...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – A look back and a look ahead
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While most Americans (and the world) are struggling financially, Hollywood had a great year. Box office revenue topped $10.6 billion, up 10 percent from 2008 (according to Hollywood.com) and many of the year end stories have talked about women both at...[Read on] |
Sundance Non-Competition
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Here’s the rest of the women directed and women-centric movies showing at Sundance in January. (Info from Hollywood Reporter)
PREMIERES
The Extra Man (Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini; screenwriters: Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames, Sh...[Read on] |
Biggest Loser Couples Reflections
| So I’ve been thinking about The Biggest Loser and its impact on American culture for some time. I can’t help but notice all the efforts in government and healthcare to inspire change and how little really gets done. Cross that with The Biggest Loser a...[Read on] |
Can Fashion Icon Michelle Obama Wear the Same Thing Twice?
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Yes, the day is coming when the First Lady may do the unspeakable — ‘repeat’ an outfit!
Will this cause outrage or applause? Simon Doonan, Isaac Mizrahi and four other top fashion professionals weigh inThe Etceterist | Today 10:25 am
T...[Read on] |
Dang, Diablo is Everywhere!
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Just last week Wednesday I blogged about Diablo Cody taking on the adaption of Sweet Valley High and today…Come to discover she is in consideration to write the script for the Hugh Hefner film that has been in talks for years!
Whatever your thoug...[Read on] |
The Legendary O’Keeffe
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Georgia O’Keeffe has been all over the news lately. Turns out Lifetime premiered a movie the other evening (feat. Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons) about O’Keeffe’s personal life and her struggle to become an established artist. Then, an e...[Read on] |
An Unlikely Romantic Comedy
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I don’t want to give away too much about the quirky little diddy, Obvious Child, but I will say that it’s an unlikely romantic comedy in that it features Jenny Slate as a woman named Donna, heartbroken and one half of a one night stand who w...[Read on] |
Hollywood Women Speak Out
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Three Hollywood women -- Glenn Close, Nicole Kidman and Heather Graham -- got into the political action this week each on a different issue.
Nicole Kidman went to Capitol Hill to talk about violence against women. No matter what she has or hasn’t don...[Read on] |
Who Can Forget a Kickass Female Crime-Fighter?
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I have never read a Sweet Valley High book but Francine Pascal’s Fearless series, on the other hand, well, I read them all. Why am I all nostalgic today about a female crime fighter? When I came in to the BUST office today, a double edition (books ...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Women missing on A.O. Scott’s list of great films
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This is just another reason why I have such trouble with the NY Times reviews. A.O. Scott put his subjective look at the “great” films from 2000 to now, and not surprisingly, only a lone female filmmaker (Claire Denis), and not one female centric ...[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 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] |
Are Females Interested in Supporting Women's Sports?
| NPR writer Frank Deford opens his article by highlighting all of the recent media attention given to female athletes. From Lindsey Vonn and Danica Patrick to Serena Williams, the media has taken notice. But, there seems to be a distinct divide where indiv...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Trailer Watch
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Here are a couple of trailers for upcoming films:
First up- Amelia
This trailer is incredibly powerful. I am beyond excited to see this film. When Richard Gere asks Hillary Swank as Amelia why she wants to fly and she replies I want to be free I got...[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] |
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