Warner Brothers: No More Lead Roles for Females
Posted on October 13th, 2007 in Entertain, News | No Comments »
On the back of disappointing box-box office figures for ‘The Brave One’, starring Jodie Foster, and ‘The Invasion’, starring Nicole Kidman, Warner Brothers Pictures has reportedly decided not to make any more movies with female leads.
The story was broken by the LA Weekly newspaper which quoted three different Warner Bros. producers. The move has outraged women’s rights activists with attorney Gloria Allred calling it an insult to women and an insult to moviegoers.
“Instead of taking responsibility for their own lack of judgment about which scripts to make, directors to hire and budgets to OK, some men in the movie industry find it easier to place blame for their lack of success on women leads…” said Allred. Read more »
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