![]() ![]() 7, seven out of 20 domestic top-grossing movies released this year had female-driven stories, according to the website Box Office Mojo. Angelina Jolie, for example, got a lot more money for ‘Maleficent’ than Daisy Ridley did for ‘Star Wars,’ but they’re both women.” (Gee, thanks, Alan!)ġ7. Horn, the chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, tried to make it simple: “There are variables that do affect what one pays any performer. Most Ignored Truism “There’s a myth in the business that young males drive the box office,” Tom Rothman, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s motion picture group, told The Hollywood Reporter in November. An Amazing Coincidence One of the studios with the most on-screen diversity - it released “Trainwreck” and “Straight Outta Compton” (if also “Ted 2”) - and with some of the most female directors is Universal, which, as of early December, had gobbled up almost 24 percent of the year’s market share.ġ6. (I excluded Fox and Sony’s specialty units.)ġ5. (five! - Lana Wachowski, Anne Fletcher, Dana Nachman, Nancy Meyers, Patricia Riggen) Universal (three - Sam Taylor Johnson, Elizabeth Banks, Angelina Jolie) Disney (one - Niki Caro) Paramount (0) Fox (0) and Sony (0). On the Other Hand Here is an estimate of the movies directed by women that were released by major studios this year: Warner Bros. Even Better In October, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was investigating gender discrimination in the industry, just as the American Civil Liberties Union requested state and federal agencies do after it conducted its own inquiry.ġ4. “I didn’t want to seem ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled,’” she wrote in the newsletter Lenny, speaking for many, including those with far more modest paychecks.ġ3. Viola Davis spoke out, as did Jennifer Lawrence, who went public about making less than her male co-stars. to talk about discrimination in the industry not just openly but also loudly. Most Hopeful Sign At one point, you could feel the status quo shift as it became O.K. “’71,” “Amy,” “Anomalisa,” “Blackhat,” “Chi-Raq,” “Ex Machina,” “Experimenter,” “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” “The Good Dinosaur,” “The Great Man,” “Inside Out,” “Joy,” “ Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles,” “Magic Mike XXL,” “ Office,” “ Results,” “The Revenant,” “Seymour: An Introduction,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” “Spy,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “Tangerine,” “Timbuktu,” “Trainwreck,” “White God” and “The Wolfpack.”ġ2. Another 26 Favorites - because why not? Many of these could have made my top 10 on another day.
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