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Athena Film Festival, a public film confab spotlighting works by and about women, will launch this year’s edition with the New York premiere of Dawn Porter’s Trapped, a documentary about Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws, like those recently passed in Texas and Alabama, that threaten American…

For the first time in the five-year history of Deadline’s annual big awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all-female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two contenders: The Danish Girl and Suffragette. With the latter, the story of the movement for the women’s right…

While this Oscar season has been ripe with standout above-the-line performances, some of the most outstanding and overlooked work is coming from this year's production designers. These craftspeople labored for months in creating the look and feel of a world we enjoy for two short hours. Spotlight production designer…

In the wake of receiving her first Best Actress Oscar nomination for 2009's An Education, Carey Mulligan realized that she had the fortunate opportunity to choose roles. She easily could play a leading man's foil in any Hollywood blockbuster—in fact, she beat out a slew of actresses for the highly coveted role of…

While Spectre is eyeing global domination in the next frame after grossing a spectacular $80.1M in just six territories this session, there's a sorority of female-driven films that have been performing, and should continue to do so, in certain pockets of the globe this week and beyond. They won’t throw Bond off his…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Cannes pic The Lobster clawed its way to the top of the nominations for this year’s Moët British Independent Film Awards. The drama picked up seven nods including for Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Producer of the Year. Colin Farrell is nominated as Best Actor and…

Focus Features' awards hopeful Suffragette marched atop the Specialty Box Office's sizable group of openers this weekend, just weeks after bowing at home in the U.K. The feature starring Carey Mulligan averaged over $19K in four theaters, giving the title the weekend's highest PTA as of Sunday morning overall. Laurie…

A number of films about women, and even from women, are among the heavy slate of new Specialty features taking their bow this weekend. Carey Mulligan is getting Awards attention for Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, also starring Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, which Focus Features will open in four New York and Los…

If you are of a certain age, your knowledge of the Suffragette movement could be related to that song about it in Disney’s Mary Poppins, but now a lot of people are going to have their eyes opened with this sincere and engrossing movie that looks at the battle for the right of women to vote and forge equality with…

The Sarah Gavron-helmed Suffragette opened the London Film Festival last week in its European premiere after bowing at Telluride in early September. On Monday, it started previews in the UK with numbers that just keep going up. Pathé UK has the timely period drama locally which is being distributed by Fox under their…

A group of protesters stormed the red carpet of the BFI London Film Festival’s premiere of Focus Features’ period drama Suffragette in Leicester Square tonight. The UK’s Guardian newspaper reports that activists from Sisters Uncut, an anti-domestic violence group, wanted to use the occasion to protest recent…

You might say it was Woman Power out in force that dominated the Telluride Film Festival’s first day Friday, although Suffragette co-star Meryl Streep balked when I used that term with her. “I am so tired of hearing about female empowerment,” she told me at the Focus Features party at Arroyo following the World…