Behold, your new Ghostbusters:
Months after the movie was first officially announced, the Hollywood Reporter reports that the all-female cast for the upcoming Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters reboot has been selected.
Who ya gonna call?
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"- –Olivia Wilde crushing it when she talks about women in Hollywood.I don’t know if some of you have been to these live reads at LACMA, where a classic film is read live on stage by actors who just sit and read the script. We did one recently of American Pie, but we reversed the gender roles. All the women played men; all the men played women. And it was so fascinating to be a part of this because, as the women took on these central roles — they had all the good lines, they had all the good laughs, all the great moments — the men who joined us to sit on stage started squirming rather uncomfortably and got really bored because they weren’t used to being the supporting cast.
It was fascinating to feel their discomfort [and] to discuss it with them afterward, when they said, “It’s boring to play the girl role!” And I said, “Yeah. Yeah. You think? Welcome to our world!
"
If you ever feel shy about owning your success, ask yourself: What would Meryl do?
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The 2014 “Vanity Fair” Hollywood Issue Has A Record Six People Of Color On The Cover
via BuzzFeed:
Vanity Fair just released the cover of its annual Hollywood Issue, and there is something refreshingly different about this year’s installment. Prior to this issue, the most people of color to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue — one of the year’s most high profile representations of who makes up the top tier of Hollywood talent — was three. This year, 6 of the 12 people featured on the cover are actors of color.
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This Graph Proves That Everyone Loses When Hollywood Is Sexist
Money talks. Vocativ writers Versha Sharma and Hanna Sender analyzed the 50 top-grossing feature films of 2013 using the Bechdel Test. Named after American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, the test evaluates gender bias in films by whether a movie features two or more women who have a conversation about something other than a man. (Seems simple, but many, many films don’t pass.)
Out of the 50 movies, 24 passed the Bechdel Test. Seven of the 24 were deemed “dubious” because the majority of the dialogue between the female characters was about men. The films that passed made a combined $1.56 billion more in box office sales than those that didn’t. Those numbers speak for themselves.
Million dollar bummer: how the highest paid women in Hollywood stack up to their male counterparts.
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"More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look. What it feels like to be not skinny/dark-skinned/a minority/not conventionally pretty/female/etc. It’s not very interesting to me, but I know it’s interesting to people reading an interview. Sometimes I get jealous of white male showrunners when 90 percent of their questions are about characters, story structure, creative inspiration, or, hell, even the business of getting a show on the air. Because as a result, the interview of me reads like I’m interested only in talking about my outward appearance and the politics of being a minority and how I fit into Hollywood, blah blah blah. I want to shout, “Those were the only questions they asked!”"-
Mindy Kaling on institutionalized misogyny
Could we love this woman anymore?
"You name me movies where the woman’s part isn’t narrower than the man’s and they will be the exceptions – not the norm. We still have characters who are defined by physical attractiveness. I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks."-
Actress Amber Heard on the lack of fleshed-out roles for actresses
Get it, girl.
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Swedes have begun rating films for their sexism, alongside sex, profanity and violence. The film must pass the Bechdel Test, which has three simple rules:
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
Sounds easy, right? Well, you’ll be surprised at how many films don’t pass the test, including almost all of the Harry Potter movies.
"Women are underrepresented in [STEM] fields so [Marvel] is trying to encourage girls to study them more, because obviously there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be. And that’s really exciting because that’s exactly what you want with these kinds of movies. They’re big and they’re fun and if you can have a little bit of impact on a young girl seeing them and saying ‘wait, that’s possible too,’ then that would be really cool."-
Natalie Portman speaking about her role as Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World
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Are horror films having a feminist crisis? (PolicyMic):
“There are overwhelmingly archetypal women in horror films — two kinds especially: the vulnerable damsel, often murdered by a killer or corrupted by a bigger, badder villain. Then there are the dangerous, often hyper-sexualized monsters that seek out and take advantage of or kill others, usually men. These characters aren’t fair or complex representations of women. Rather, they limit female characters to their most static stereotypes and define them either by the trauma of violence or pretty damning cultural stereotypes. When we’re gripped by these films, it’s hard to recognize these characters as possibly problematic. But they are problematic because complex, real-women characters are still so sparse when it comes to mainstream cinema.”
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While it might be a man’s world, these seven women are making their mark on the film industry: