Women Rule

Its official: Women ruled at the box office this year. I thought this article was an interesting read because it talks about how the movies that made the most money this year were the ones with women leads and women-driven stories. Sandra Bullock rocked it out this year with two of the highest grossing films, The Proposal and The Blindside. They are even talking about how It's Complicated, the Meryl Streep movie coming out at Christmas that I auditioned to play her daughter in (sigh), is already projected to make at least $100 million. Those are pretty big numbers for a 60-year-old woman playing the romantic lead. What can I say? Meryl is magic. The point is, there is a growing demographic of women who want to see movies that they can relate to. And we are willing to pay money to see these stories...which the studio heads are starting to take notice of. Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst with Hollwood.com, says, "If, in the future, studios ignore female audiences, they do so at their own peril." Lesson learned? I really should buckle down and write more. It is starting to sound like the stories I would want to tell might actually have a chance at being told...