Blind Items Revealed #1
March 5, 2020
This A- list actress/director who all of you know tried really hard to land the directing gig for this long long awaited sequel to a haunted holiday favorite. An executive from the studio in a accidental reply all email said there was no way a woman was getting the gig.
Elizabeth Banks/Hocus Pocus 2
This A- list actress/director who all of you know tried really hard to land the directing gig for this long long awaited sequel to a haunted holiday favorite. An executive from the studio in a accidental reply all email said there was no way a woman was getting the gig.
Elizabeth Banks/Hocus Pocus 2
We all should have listened to MorningLorri. Nice work.
ReplyDeletehey i said elizabeth banks when this blind first came out. everyone else was saying angie.
ReplyDeleteThis lady does not have a great track record.
ReplyDeleteComing from a woman, Elizabeth Banks directed Charlies Angels with KStew and the movie Flopped HARD. I would say the executive did not want to make this much awaited sequel about identity politics as the headlines would have more about a "female director" (because Elizabeth Banks did just that type of marketing for CHarlies Angels) and, not, the headline: "Hocus Pocus 2: Finally Here."
ReplyDeleteIn Hollywood, you are only as good as your last flop. You lose a studio money you are out. Elizabeth Banks did just that; (and, I found her hysterical in 40 Year Old Virgin).
She has gone woke, which tanked her last film.
ReplyDeleteNo one wants a feminist exploration in a popcorn film like Hocus Pocus. (unless it was done intelligently and interestingly like Get Out, but from her track record with Charlie's she showed she cant do that)
After Charlie's Angels, she might have been thrilled that that email said "woman," rather than naming her!
ReplyDeleteYou're as good as your last film.....or something like that!
ReplyDeleteBS, men get to direct one stinker after another and continue to work
ReplyDeleteTrue, but this thing of "hire this person BECAUSE she's a woman" is getting old, and that might have been what was behind that message.
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ReplyDeleteEstablished directors, yes. Directors that are capable are providing a hit, but, for some reason failed after many successes, of course, will be rehired. The point is the overall financial game ou can bring a studio. A director controls the movie and Elizabeth Banks did just that, AND, failed to get asses in seats.
ReplyDeleteReally wish talent and not race, religion and determines someone getting hired and not filling out a quota. Maybe if female directors really wanted to be seen as equal they should never mention their sex while promoting. I cannot imagine wanting special treatment at work based on the color of my skin or my sex.
Talent is blind. As it should be.
How many on this reply all message this?? Hard to believe in today's WOKE world that this wouldn't have gone viral and this executive cxcled by now.
ReplyDeletePeople want a Hocus Pocus sequel?👹
ReplyDeleteI know, right? 🙄
DeleteMen (of all races) drop names all the time. "Boy's club" will always exists for a reason for the same reason wa girl club as well: to understand and help all the particular issues each sex is going though.
ReplyDeleteSo, I would understand why men and women want alone time from other opposite sex...to vent (which often makes you better than taking cheap shots at husband/ wife to feel you are not alone).
And, women are immensely successful. Look at Taylor Swift (or Beyonce), though she thinks being a scrawny male and not a spoiled little, white girl is easier than being a slim, white boy with no daddy to jumpstart her career.. (Her new video convinces me she is an idiot/ deeply out of touch).
Name dropping is not an sex thing; it is "I desperately need a job" thing.
Who the hell knows Elizabeth Banks lol
ReplyDeleteShe's one of those where you know the name but haven't a clue about their work.
ReplyDeleteThe odds be never in her favor.
ReplyDeleteSince Bette Middler and Sara Jessica Parker have both been accused by their peers of not being supportive to other women...doubt they will go to bat for poor Elizabeth. Who wants to see this sequel anyhow? SJP removed her face wart, so it's no fun now!;)
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