Director Patty Jenkins is having quite the year. First, she gets immortalized as her very own Barbie doll for International Women’s Day. “I am someone who is lucky enough to make the films I want to make,” Jenkins said at the time. “But the honor of having a Barbie that looks like me and is…
Read moreThe 2018 Oscar nominations are stacked this year. Greta Gerwig scored a directing nod for Lady Bird; both Octavia Spencer and Mary J. Blige are nominated for Best Supporting Actress; Get Out racked up; and for the first time ever, a woman is in the running for Best Cinematography. Even with all this progress, though,…
Read moreDespite being the movie of summer 2017 and breaking several box office records, Wonder Woman somehow walked away from the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning without a single nomination. That means Patty Jenkins will not be joining the embarrassingly small list of female directors nominated for Hollywood’s biggest award (though this year’s set of nominations…
Read moreIn light of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the Producers Guild of America announced Saturday night (January 20) that it’s implementing new guidelines to combat sexual harassment and misconduct on film and TV sets. This change is long overdue, of course, but luckily these new standards will go into effect soon: They’ll start with the…
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Wonder Woman’s superpowers go beyond fighting bad guys. At the 2017 Women in Entertainment breakfast hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and presented by FIJI Water, Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot presented one lucky college freshman, Carla, with a four-year full-ride scholarship, paid for by Warner Bros., the studio behind the feminist blockbuster. “She’s strong-minded, opinionated…
Read moreA major part of the Wonder Woman plot revolved around Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince simultaneously fighting alongside and falling in love with Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor, the first man she’d ever met. Obviously, there were other important things going on in the movie—see: Diana marching across No Man’s Land to rescue an entire town of…
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