Category — Industry Buzz

It took producer Barney Rosenzweig years to convince MGM to release a single season of Cagney & Lacey. They said they would release additional seasons if this one did well, so they released it without any marketing (way …

I got a couple of seemingly unrelated emails recently. One alerted me to a trailer for Generation M, an upcoming documentary in which professor of philosophy Thomas Kieth explores how sexualized images of young women (teenagers in many cases) …

Reader Jack Ketch commented on Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test something I think deserves more discussion:

William Goldman described the phrase “non-recurring phenomenon” in his book The Big Picture, a collection of …

I’ve been hearing about Katherine Heigl’s eyebrow-raising refusal to submit her name for Emmy consideration because she thought the Grey’s Anatomy scripts hadn’t handed her anything Emmy worthy. I didn’t even bother reading about it, because I figured most …

The Nielsen TV ratings system people who bring you wildly inaccurate numbers to show who’s watching what on TV have a system for rating websites. Unfortunately, like the TV system, it relies on subscribers. They need people like …

There’s a question that comes up every time I tell my story about how I slowly realized that Hollywood didn’t want movies/shows for, by or about women to profit. To sum up that story, what tipped me off was …

While writing Female characters exist to promote male leads for network profits, I realized something I had never quite put together in so many words. It’s important enough to deserve its own article (thanks, Bellatrys!), so here it …

This article began as a quick note on something we discussed about Robin Hood a while ago, but turned into an in-depth explanation for why the Mo Movie Measure test is so rarely passed by TV and film. It contains …

Film critic Ann Hornaday has boldly flouted one of the Ten Commandments of the motion picture industry. She’s calling bullshit on a couple of “edgy independent” filmmakers. You’re not supposed to do that. If an independent film makes you …

I’ve described more than once my own experiences with a film industry that could look right at me and swear I didn’t exist. In the mid-90’s when I was actively working in film, the dominant theories were:

Women don’t go …