Hollyblogs
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How a Blue-Collar Woman Taught Me to Stand Up to Hollywood Bullies and Harassers (Guest Blog)
“Maybe today an actor would think twice before grabbing his director’s breasts,” filmmaker Courtney Balaker writes
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How This Year’s Oscars Became a Feminist Game Changer (Guest Blog)
“I believe the 2018 Oscars are going to have a lasting influence,” writes documentarian Aviva Kempner
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Did Andy Griffith Pave the Way for Donald Trump? (Guest Blog)
“I’ll say one thing for him, he’s got the courage of his ignorance,” says one character of the budding demagogue Griffith played in 1957’s “A Face in the Crowd”
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The Timely Accessory I’m Wearing to This Year’s Oscars (Guest Blog)
“I only wanted to wear an accessory that reflected the courageous responses of the young adults who survived the Parkland, Fla., shooting,” writes documentarian Aviva Kempner
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How Working for the Pentagon Prepared Me for Hollywood (Guest Blog)
In five years as adviser to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “Midnighters” writer-producer Alston Ramsay says he learned to over-plan — and be willing to toss those plans aside
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‘The Parent Trap’ Star Hayley Mills: Thank God I Broke Out Long Before Instagram (Guest Blog)
“I am only grateful I didn’t become famous in the time of social media,” former Disney child star says
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Time’s Up for Hollywood Agencies to Sign (and Support) Female Filmmakers (Guest Blog)
As a female director who’s worked in the trenches for three decades, the past few months feel as if the axis of the planet really has budged, Rachel Feldman writes
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Why ‘Black Panther’ Matters: Finally I Can Look in a Mirror and Imagine a Superhero (Guest Blog)
“Fifty Shades Freed” star Robinne Lee cheers the success — and cultural impact — of Ryan Coogler’s Marvel blockbuster
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How Peak TV Arms Race Is Shaping the Way We Make, Sell and Watch (Guest Blog)
Audiences across platforms are shrinking, but our production costs are still on the rise, writes eshapTV owner/producer Evan Shapiro
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Is It Finally Comeback Time for Sam Cooke and Bobby Darin?
Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Groff may make two classic music stars sing to a whole new generation
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Why Studios Need to Start Focusing on Infrequent Moviegoers (Guest Blog)
Movie researchers are routinely flummoxed by the performance of films like “Wonder,” “Dunkirk” and “It,” writes PSB Research VP Max Dawson
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Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele and Other Actors Who Direct: More Than Beginner’s Luck? (Guest Blog)
The directors of “Lady Bird” and “Get Out” join a long list of Hollywood auteurs who got their start in front of the camera
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‘I’ll Never Let Any Woman Direct Me’: 11 Female Directors Recount Sexism and Discrimination (Guest Blog)
“We had a woman director last season” and other tales from the frontlines, as compiled by director Rachel Feldman
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Why Celebrate ‘Terrible’ PT Barnum at All in ‘The Greatest Showman’? (Guest Blog)
He launched a century and a half of cruelty to animals in circuses, writes PETA senior VP Lisa Lange
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Elisabeth Moss’ Oscar Contender ‘The Square’ Treated a Great Ape as a ‘Living Prop’ (Guest Blog)
“Great apes used as involuntary ‘actors’ are removed from their mothers shortly after birth,” writes PETA president Ingrid Newkirk
