Sentences with phrase «helmed by a female director»

The film became the top - grossing superhero origin movie of all time, along with the most profitable superhero movie to be helmed by a female director.

Three of the movies from female filmmakers of color that made our «Best Films About Women in 2014» list — Amma Asante's Belle, Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay's Selma — are happily among the 17 films helmed by female directors to crack the top 250 list.

Critics» Week also announced 10 short films in competition, three of them helmed by female directors.

A female superhero movie helmed by a female director... was that really so difficult?

For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with women debuting films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.

Not exact matches

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

Marvel's previous twenty films have all been helmed by male directors, including the upcoming Ant - Man and the Wasp, which features Marvel's first female lead, albeit still alongside a lead male hero.

This is no Basic Instinct or Single White Female or The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but if you get a kick out of something like the Beyoncé versus Ali Larter film Obsessed or the J.Lo - starring Boy Next Door, then Unforgettable, helmed by first time feature director Denise Di Novi, provides a similar brand of campy ridiculousness.

And given the highly publicized effort to highlight the issues of gender inequality, sexual assault and harassment, it was nice to see a range of A-listers decked out in labels helmed by female designers, including «The Crown's» Claire Foy in a black, double - breasted Stella McCartney suit, «The Handmaid's Tale's» Samira Wiley in a black A-line Romona Keveža Collection gown, Elisabeth Moss and Natalie Portman in Dior (which tapped Maria Grazia Chiuri as its first female artistic director in 2016) and Sam Rockwell, Diane Kruger and Gary Oldman in Prada.

Now, with XX, it's showcasing this highly anticipated horror anthology helmed entirely by female directors.