“Could It Be? Did Hollywood Execs Get The Memo?” speculates on the reason for the number of movies-about-women (which seems to correspond with movies-by-women). I would take issue with her assertion that Mama Mia! or Kit are any great leaps forward for womankind, but I’ve not seen either, so I won’t get into that here.
Spark: Women in the Box Office
Posted by xJane on July 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am · 2 Comments
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1 wren // Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 am
“[re: SatC movie]…making it the ninth-largest-grossing romantic comedy since 1978.” The movie has made a lot of money. I’d hope the author could come up with a better way to demonstrate than “Hey, 9th best since the late 70s!” lol
I’d like to see more quality movies directed and written by women. Speaking of which Bust magazine had a great interview with Diablo Cody recently.
2 xJane // Jul 22, 2008 at 6:31 am
I haven’t seen the movie, although I did watch a few eps, but I hardly think that Sex & the City qualifies as a “romantic comedy”, but what else are you going to call a movie that women like/identify with, right?
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