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womenandhollywood.com - 18 hours 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
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womenandhollywood.com - 18 hours 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 - 42 hours 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 - 45 hours 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 - 45 hours 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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
womenandhollywood.com - 7 days ago
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Taking a break from blogging. See you next
week....
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Happy Thanksgiving
womenandhollywood.com - 8 days ago
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I recently saw this very interesting documentary by
Hannah Rothschild, The Jazz Baroness , about her great...
aunt Nica who spent over 28 years as Thelonious Monk’s best friend. I was kind of surprised by the story because, of course, I had heard of Monk, but had never heard of Nica. For ...
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The Jazz Baroness Airs on HBO Tommorow Night
womenandhollywood.com - 9 days ago
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On Friday morning Hollywood woke up to the
realization that fangirls can be as rabid as fanboys....
By Saturday morning they realized that two BIG records had been broken, including the highest midnight screening opening and the best opening date in history. On Sunday morning, they woke up ...
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New Moon Brings a New Dawn in Hollywood
womenandhollywood.com - 9 days ago
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Here are two pieces about New Moon where
Women & Hollywood was featured last week. From CNN.com...
– Hey Hollywood, the Fangirls are Calling: But successful female-centric films often are dismissed as flukes instead of viewed as trends, says Melissa Silverstein, a media consultant ...
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Women & Hollywood in the Press
womenandhollywood.com - 11 days ago
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New Moon has recorded the BEST OPENING DATE
IN HISTORY! The film grossed $72.7 million (that more...
than the whole opening weekend for Twilight) on 4024 screens. The previous record was held by The Dark Knight which made 67.2 million on 4,366 in July of 2008. So I guess we can say that the ...
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Two Records Down!
womenandhollywood.com - 12 days ago
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In midnights screenings of New Moon in over
3500 theatres, the film made over $26 million which...
topples the record held by Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price at a little over $22 million. And remember Harry Potter opened in the summer when school was out and oh yeah, starred a boy. Go ...
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One Record Down!
womenandhollywood.com - 12 days ago
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As New Moon descends on the world today
I asked a couple of colleagues who write and...
think about film from different cities to answer some questions about the global phenomenon. The questions I posed are followed by the answers by the different women. Some of the participants requested ...
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Women Writers Talk New Moon
