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?
