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womenandhollywood.com - 17 hours ago
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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, Shari Springer Berman). A ...
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Sundance Non-Competition
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womenandhollywood.com - 18 hours ago
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Creative Screenwriting has put together a poll for
the best films of the decade. Here’s your chance...
to vote for some women. Voting ends Friday. Well, it’s been a great decade for films, be it big (The Dark Knight) or small (Slumdog Millionaire). And now, we need YOUR help to ...
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Vote for the Best Films of the Decade
womenandhollywood.com - 40 hours ago
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So here’s a crazy thing that happened this
weekend, The Blind Side beat New Moon to become...
the number one movie in its third weekend of release. A movie that did not open in the number one slot rarely then climbs to number one. Just doesn’t happen. But it happened with The Blind ...
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The Blind Side: Sleeper Hit
womenandhollywood.com - 43 hours ago
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Helen Mirren was honored last week in London
with a lifetime achievement award from Women in Film...
and TV International. She is now appearing in The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy which will probably get her another Oscar nomination. The film is in limited release this week to qualify for the ...
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Helen Mirren
womenandhollywood.com - 43 hours ago
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I saw this when I was walking down
the street in NYC last week. Do I need...
to say any more? God, I hate David Mamet.
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Sexism Watch: Race Poster
womenandhollywood.com - 43 hours ago
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In conjunction with its Women in Entertainment breakfast,
The Hollywood Reporter has published its annual list of...
the most powerful women in Hollywood. My thoughts are that the list is pretty much the same from last year especially in the top 10 with a couple of women moving around. Angela ...
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The Most Powerful Women in Hollywood
womenandhollywood.com - 4 days ago
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The National Board of Review (NBR) handed out
its awards for 2009 and Jason Reitman’s Up in...
the Air (which is opening in limited release today) took top honors. NBR is a mysterious group. Some film people, some folks not in the business at all. Here’s how the Hollywood Reporter ...
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Awards Watch: National Board of Review
womenandhollywood.com - 4 days ago
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Now that we are about to enter 2010
everyone is looking back on the last decade and...
compiling lists upon lists. Here’s a list that caught my attention, The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Ten Movies of the Decade and not surprisingly, there is not a single female directed film on the ...
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Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s List of Top Films of ...
womenandhollywood.com - 4 days ago
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Unlike the Publishers Weekly year end list which
included no women, the NY Times has included a...
bunch of women on its 10 best list of 2009. In fact, 4 of the 5 fiction books are by women. Here they are. Full list will appear in the December 13 book review. Fiction Both Ways is the Only ...
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Gee Whiz, Women Do Write Good Books
womenandhollywood.com - 5 days ago
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The Sundance Film Festival released a good amount
of the lineup for the next festival and it...
looks at first glance to be dark and very boy oriented. Women account for only 4 out of the 16 (25%) of dramatic films in competition. Women are better represented in the documentary area making up 7 ...
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Sundance 2010- The Competition Lineup
womenandhollywood.com - 5 days ago
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I watched every single episode of Family Ties
when I was growing up. It was such a...
great and smart show. I knew I was a liberal because I believed everything Elyse Keaton said and even though I loved Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton, I hated his politics so much. That show, created by Gary ...
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Meredith Baxter
womenandhollywood.com - 5 days ago
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The music business is one place where women
are really dominant and present in a big, big...
way. The Grammy nominations were released yesterday and Beyonce led all nominees with 10 (she also got a nomination for a song she helped write for the film Cadillac Records .) Taylor Swift followed ...
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Women Score Serious Grammy Noms
womenandhollywood.com - 6 days ago
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Isn’t the indie world supposed to be better
for women? Guess not that much better since women...
were virtually shut out of all the major awards categories for the Independent Spirit Awards which will be held in LA on Friday, March 5th. Here are some of the things that stood out for me: ...
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Awards Watch: The Independent Spirit Award Nominations
womenandhollywood.com - 6 days ago
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Coraline The animated world is not known for
having too many women in it. It’s pretty much...
a boys club. Yesterday, the International Animated Film Association released its nominees for the ANNIEs in TV and film and SURPRISE there are many categories without a single female nominee. ...
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Awards Watch: The Annies
womenandhollywood.com - 7 days ago
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The message we always hear is sex sells,
especially at the movies. A new report Sex Doesn’t...
Sell — Nor Impress by Anemone Cerridwen and Dean Keith Simonton refutes that claim. The report studied 914 mainstream Hollywood films(and their box office domestically and overseas, critical ...
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Sex Does Not Always Sell
womenandhollywood.com - 7 days ago
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I read this interview yesterday and it totally
cracked me up. I haven’t read Scottoline’s books but...
I am now adding them to my list. I guess I must be the only one who hasn’t read them because there are 25 million in print. She now has a non-fiction book out Why My Third ...
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Lisa Scottoline
womenandhollywood.com - 7 days ago
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Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker started off the
awards season with a win for best feature at...
the IFP’s Gotham Awards. The event also included a tribute to director Bigelow. We shouldn’t read too much into the win but last year’s winner Frozen River made it to the ...
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Women Score at the Gotham Awards
womenandhollywood.com - 8 days ago
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I’ve been a fan of Rebecca Miller’s work
ever since I saw Personal Velocity at Sundance in...
1992. What I like most about her is that she makes movies where the women are necessarily very likeable. They are complicated and screwed up and not your typical Hollywood fare. Her latest ...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
womenandhollywood.com - 8 days ago
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New Moon and The Blind Side helped make
this past holiday weekend a record breaking one for...
Hollywood. It seems that this weekend, grosses were upwards of $275 million breaking the mark set in 2000 by 12%. The interesting thing is that none of the films that actually opened for the holiday ...
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New Moon and The Blind Side Blow Away Thanksgiving Box ...
womenandhollywood.com - 8 days ago
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On December 2, a retrospective of Sally Potter’s
work including a digitally remastered print of Orlando starring...
Tilda Swinton will kick off at the BFI Southbank in London. It is the first career retrospective of a British female filmmaker. (At least we have finally made it to a day ...
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Sally Potter Retrospective
