More important than allowing women to prove they can hack it with the boys is for the industry to recognize what women have already accomplished: to put as much effort into developing female audiences, for there are many, as into wooing geeks at Comic-Con, and to realize that The Heat’s $40 million (and counting) box-office take is not a fluke but a window into a hunger that Hollywood is doing a lousy job of feeding.
—Sam Adams, new editor of Indiewire’s Criticwire blog (and soon-to-be Dissolve contributor), responding to Susan Wloszczyna’s provocative piece at RogerEbert.com about why Hollywood should be handing the reins of blockbuster franchises to female directors. (via thedissolve)
Yes please.
And: hooray! The Dissolve is launching today. Sometime.
