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Want to Write a Guest Post for Women and ...Oscar Winner Kathryn Bigelow Nears Completion of Filming Zero Dark Thirty
The film is already getting some buzz and has stirred up a national security controversy where the filmakers have been accused of receiving classified information from the Obama administration on the Bin Laden raid. Republican Representative Peter King says that national security has been breached. It's gotten so heated that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had to issue a statement that no classified information was divulged.
Just to note that there is an office at the Defense Department that works with films and just recently the Navy worked with the team that made the film Battleship.
Here's why Women and Hollywood is going to be tracking this film very carefully -- because there has never been a female best director winner who released a follow-up film. Period. So Bigelow is going to rightfully be in the Oscar hunt from the get go because she is an Oscar winner. That means that we will have a woman director in the Oscar conversation. When you have a woman who has won an Oscar (which we have never had before) it will surely change the conversation.
In a change from her last film, Zero Dark Thirty already has domestic and international distribution deals already secured from major studios -- Columbia in the US, and Universal overseas. I am wondering if the film will even be ready to go to film festivals in the fall or if they will hold it for a big roll it out in December.
I am also curious as to how they will use her Oscar in the marketing. I want to see how politics play into this. There are so many fascinating things going on already and the movie just finished filming two weeks ago. This is going to be fun.
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I also would like to know where studio executives get their data for opening weekend demographics
By Kelley Marie onSony Head Amy Pascal on Women Directors: The Whole System is Geared for Them To FailMay 23, 2013 1:46 PM -
How is "Amy Pascal: I have begged Kathryn Bigelow to make Spiderman, James Bond anything I can
By Valerie Weiss onSony Head Amy Pascal on Women Directors: The Whole System is Geared for Them To FailMay 23, 2013 12:40 PM -
"she is hot" so she has to strip for you.... so your excuse for sexism is your sexist
May 23, 2013 5:56 AM -
if you were really interested in this topic you would know that there are countless people writing
May 23, 2013 5:52 AM -
Thank you Michael for the nice compliment ~ I love the photos you took of Kim, great work ~
May 22, 2013 8:57 PM
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P | June 16, 2012 9:20 PM
Evangeline might have had some screen time in 'The Hurt Locker' but she had no personality of her own. She played just another cliched wifey who just doesn't get the complexities of men's world and wants her husband to stay at home and bake cookies with her. Blegh
Just an FYI, I love Bigelow and think she's a fantastic director. However, she did fail on the women's front in her last movie, is all.
Lola | June 14, 2012 2:17 PM
Nina Arianda used to be on the cast list but then on IMBD she was taken off....I don't see how she could be in this film since she has been on Broadway with 'Venus in Fur' for awhile now....:( I would love to see Arianda and Chastain together - two rising stars!