Women and Hollywood

Cross Post: Women Writing Pilots – Nice Work if You Can Get It

Television

Last week the networks announced the pilots they are picking up to series from among the ninety or so that were produced this year for ABC, CBS, CW, FOX and NBC. Certainly the relative success that CBS had with its schedule and the more limited slots FOX has available influenced their rationale for picking up fewer pilots to production than ABC and NBC. This year, the CW ordered 8 pilots, up from 6 in years past, an increase of 33%.

By Neely Swanson
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May 23, 2012 12:22 PM
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Cross-Post - Cannes: Festival Opens in a Boys Own Adventure

Blogs

By Lisa French
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May 21, 2012 10:30 AM
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Females Grossly Underrepresented and Misrepresented in Top Grossing Films of 2011

Blogs

New stats are out from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. This time the research takes a look at the amount of female characters onscreen in the top grossing 100 films of 2011.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 15, 2012 1:03 PM
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MPAA Data Shows Women and Men Each Buy Half the Movie Tickets Sold

Blogs

For the second year in a row the MPAA has released data showing that men and women each buy half the tickets to movies. (Here's the post of the 2010 stats.) Two years ago women bought more than half the tickets.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 23, 2012 10:25 AM
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To The Academy: Consider the Women

Blogs

It's that time of year, The Academy Awards, the "Super Bowl for Women." It's the night where we all get catty about whose dress doesn't work, who's got a new boyfriend or girlfriend, and who looks like they haven't eaten all month.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 23, 2012 10:54 AM
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Oscar Watch: Looking at Gender and the Oscars

Blogs

Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti and Stephanie Gall of USC have taken a look at gender onscreen and behind the scenes in the best picture nominees over the last 30 years. There are two sets of findings - films made from 2007-2010 (so that would be the Oscars from 2008-2011, and films from 1977-2010.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 23, 2012 10:02 AM
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Cross Post: Streep Speaks and Illuminates the Need for More Female Critics

Blogs

Earlier this week, Terry Gross broadcast a provocative interview with Meryl Streep on her NPR program Fresh Air. The interview was tied to Streep’s unprecedented 17th Oscar nomination for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. But Gross also used the opportunity to ask Streep about some insightful comments she made during her Commencement Address to the graduates of Barnard College in 2010. First here are some excerpts from Streep’s Barnard speech:

By Jan Lisa Huttner
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February 8, 2012 11:00 AM
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Top Grossing Women Centric Films of 2011

Box Office

When I read that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo crossed the $100 million mark, it reminded me to take a look at how women centric films did last year.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 8, 2012 10:15 AM
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What Bigelow Effect? Number of Women Directors in Hollywood Falls to 5 Percent

News

The Oscar nominations this morning give us another year where there are no women directors included in the list. This year we won't see Kathryn Bigelow up on the stage giving out the best director award to the next winner. When she won two years ago there was much hope that the numbers of women directing in Hollywood would get better.

By Melissa Silverstein
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January 24, 2012 10:12 AM
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Women Make Up Only 33% of Speaking Roles in Films

Blogs

I used to really hate numbers. Now I find numbers empowering. I find them empowering because they make anecdotal evidence a reality. They help us know we are not crazy.

By Melissa Silverstein
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November 23, 2011 9:32 AM
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