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Interview with Tanya Wexler - Director of Hysteria

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By Melissa Silverstein
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May 17, 2012 12:53 PM
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First Feature on Hollywood Legend Mary Pickford to Go Into Production Next Year

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It's always good news when a woman whose contributions to our culture have receded from contemporary knowledge gets brought back into mainstream culture.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 9, 2012 11:00 AM
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Tribeca Watch: Speaking With Writer/Director Jenny Deller and Producer Kristin Fairweather of Future Weather

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I didn't get to see many Tribeca Fest films in the theatre this year due to my travel schedule at the beginning of the festival, but I was so glad to be able to catch the film and post screening discussion of Future Weather.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 8, 2012 11:36 AM
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Another Missed Opportunity - Francis Lawrence Hired to Direct Catching Fire

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There are not many times where people have enough juice to make change in a lumbering system that is so resistant to it. But the gig of directing Catching Fire, the second film in The Hunger Games trilogy was one of those golden opportunities and now it is gone.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 4, 2012 11:59 AM
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Interview with Anne Renton - Director of The Perfect Family

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The Perfect Family written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Reily and directed by Anne Renton and produced by Cora Olson and Jen Dubin hits theatres and VOD today. It tells the story of Eileen Cleary played by Kathleen Turner, a very religious Catholic woman whose life falls apart when she gets nominated for Catholic Woman of the Year. She walk the walk of the church and is desperately struggling with the fact that both her children are not "perfect" in the church's eyes -- her daughter played by Emily Deschanel is a lesbian having a baby and getting married to her partner, and her son played by Jason Ritter is getting divorced and seeing an older woman.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 4, 2012 10:33 AM
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Guest Post: A Wake Up Call

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March may have been Women’s History Month, but we should be working actively all year to have more women’s work on film and on stage. We cannot accept the lowly statistics without activism. It’s not that women aren’t writing enough or aren’t trying to get produced. There are a lot of closed doors. Rather than belabor why, we need to breed more women producers.

By Barbara Masry
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April 3, 2012 10:30 AM
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Trailer Watch: Sparkle

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Watching this made me sad about Whitney Houston all over again. Opens August 10.

By Melissa Silverstein
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April 3, 2012 9:37 AM
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Interview with Nina Jacobson: Producer of the Hunger Games

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Nina Jacobson is poised to have a really great weekend. She's about to open The Hunger Games which if tracking and advance sales hold will be one of the best opening weekends ever. She answered some questions by phone as the film gets ready to roll out

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 22, 2012 11:37 AM
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Producer Watch: Nina Jacobson at the Premiere of The Hunger Games

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Nina Jacobson has been around Hollywood for a while. She's one of a handful of women to run a studio having run Buena Vista Studios at Disney until 2006.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 14, 2012 10:30 AM
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How Big Will The Hunger Games Open?

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The news is that this week when The Hunger Games came onto the pre release tracking (which is what the studios use to gauge awareness and desire to see a film) it was huge - so huge that experts are saying it could open between $70 and $100 million.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 2, 2012 12:03 PM
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