Hey Freak!

I'm not big on boycotts. In general, I don't think they work, as a tool of protest. But, I would consider boycotting Warner Brothers Pictures if this is true:

Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead". This Neanderthal thinking comes after both Jodie Foster's The Brave One (even though she's had big recent hits with Flightplan and Panic Room) and Nicole Kidman's The Invasion (as if three different directors didn't have something to do with the awfulness of the gross receipts) under-performed at the box office recently. [full story]

Really? Those failures are the fault of the lead actresses? Come on. Please. Tell me that everybody who hated those movies, or didn't go to them, did so because of the female lead. Tell me those movies would have fared much better with a male lead. I mean, really.

In a world that continues to give us movies like the Wayans' "White Chicks" and, well, just about anything with Will Ferrell, that movies are crappy only because of the female lead. Hey, how about writing a good, serious movie for a female lead? Why do you think that all the best actresses fight over the plum lead roles? Could it be because there are so, so few good roles for females (relative to men)? Hey, Warner Brothers, maybe you should work on that little disparity before you go casting blame on the actresses themselves...

Nah. It's just be easier to blame the bitches, right?

Oh. Mah. Gah. I thought I was possibly the only person on the planet who didn't "get" Will Farrell. I mean, yeah. He's okayyy, but...

I don't know anything about actually attending a movie in a theater; haven't done THAT in YEARS, but anyway. Yeah.

So, that's all I had to say.

Thanks.

:: flee ::

Unfortunately, females will still try to bust their little size 00 asses off trying to get a role in one of their movies. And are actors/actresses still signed to only one studio anymore? Are these people stuck while they try to finish out their 5 picture movie contract? By then they will be considered such hacks, that they won't be able to find work anywhere, except of course, Warner Bros. Studios. Ironic.

did he really say that? where did you read this at?

i actually saw the invasion and liked it. i'm not a big fan of jodie foster's movies unless she's getting jizzed on (silence of the lambs anyone??).

and for the record, the only 2 actors i won't go see movies of are tom cruise and kevin costner.... so there!

leave it to the penis brigade to blame a woman for their shortcomings.
AND kudos to you-- and the evolved piece of maleness that you are to see through the bullshit.
BUT do I have to boycot Christian Bale?-- He's batman hotness!

I sure hope this is not true.

I find it astounding that they would arrive at such a conclusion. But I'm absolutely gobsmacked that that studio guy would make a PUBLIC STATEMENT about it! Holy dumb move, Batman!

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