Warner's Robinoff Bitchslaps Film Women

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The He-man Woman Hater's Studio Club: Nikki Finke reports that Warner Bros. production ...
Published 10/5/2007 by Mark at Defamer
... might rub him out first, obviating the need for an official declaration of hosilities. [ DeadlineHollywood ]

Another Moment Of Hysteria
Published 10/5/2007 at The Hot Blog
... Her latest rant is against Warner’s Jeff Robinov, who has all kinds of problems as a head of production… but whose should-never-have-been-said-out-loud call not to make pricey films driven by female leads is hardly a shocker. And of course, the first thing Nikki fails to notice is that her pal Amy Pascal made this decision for Sony a few years ago and has had two great box office years since… with only one title, the underperforming The Holiday, driven by female stars in those last two years. ...

Asshole of the Year award goes to...
Published 10/6/2007 at OH NO!!
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Warner Bros says “No More Female Lead Characters”?!
Published 10/8/2007 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new rule that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”, according to DeadlineHollywood. Apparently, Robinov won’t even look at a script with a female lead. ...

Robinov's sweeping statement
Published 10/8/2007 at Hollywood Elsewhere
According to a story posted two days ago , three different producers have ...

Warner Brothers President Says No More Female Lead Characters!
Published 10/8/2007 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... with Nicole Kidman, which have only made $34 million and $15 million respectively. Nikki Finke from Deadline Hollywood reports the news and claims that a number of producers have confirmed that this is a real statement, but what is this going to do for Warner Brothers?! ...

Warner Bros. says “No More” to Female Lead Characters
Published 10/8/2007 by Neil Miller at Film School Rejects
... Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov obviously has a death wish. Either that, or he has absolutely no sense of what he is saying when he opens his mouth. I say this because as Deadline Hollywood is reporting, Robinov told producers at Warner Bros. that they are “no longer doing movies with women in the lead.” Gee, I wonder how that fits into their Affirmative Action plan. ...

Really Brave Decisions: Hollywood Blames Jodie Foster's Vagina For Box Office Failure
Published 10/8/2007 by Moe at Jezebel
... Warner's Robinoff Bitchslaps Film Women [Nikki Finke]

Brave Decisions: Hollywood Blames Jodie Foster's Vagina For Box Office Failure
Published 10/8/2007 by Moe at Jezebel
The tough thing about being one of those people who is paid to summon outrage all day is that inevitably it happens that you are sitting there, and you grab hold of a specimen of such unadulterated, 99.44 pure inconceivably outrageous outrageousness, and you just don't have it in you to do anything but blockquote a whole section: 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 ...

Brave Decisions: Hollywood Locates Source Of Crappy Movie Receipts: Women Actors!
Published 10/8/2007 by Moe at Jezebel
The tough thing about being one of those people who is paid to summon outrage all day is that inevitably it happens that you are sitting there, and you grab hold of a specimen of such unadulterated, 99.44 pure inconceivably outrageous outrageousness, and you just don't have it in you to do anything but blockquote a whole section: 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 ...

Warner Bros says: “No More Female Lead Characters”?!
Published 10/8/2007 by jessica at CelebrityPWN Hot Gossip
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New Warner Brothers Production Policy Bans Movies with Female Leads
Published 10/8/2007 by Sean at Film Junk
Well if you needed proof that the movie industry is still, after all these years, just a giant boys club and that women aren t fairly represented in Hollywood, look no further than this next story. Shockwaves were sent around the web this week after the public caught wind of a boneheaded and rather sexist new policy being implemented by Warner Brothers execs. According to Deadline Hollywood , WB President of Production Jeff Robinov has decided that they will no longer greenlight any movies with female lead characters, as a response to the failure of such recent films as The Invasion , The Reaping and The Brave One . Because, as we all know, those movies failed to generate box office dollars solely because audiences can t relate to women in lead roles right? Come on, that s just about as stupid as if they had decided to put a ban on all movies that start with The . A lot of people around th ...

Soapbox: Warner Bros. Exec Needs to Stop Hating on Women
Published 10/8/2007 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... Anyone want to get nice and riled up to start the week? Good. Then check out this alleged statement from a Warner Bros. executive that the studio will no longer do movies with women in the lead. According to LA Weekly reporter Nikki Finke, production president Jeff Robinov made the statement after ...

Warner Bros. Done With Women Leads
Published 10/8/2007 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... -hates-women.jpg" width="450" height="333" class="mt-image-center" /> How best to explain the recent box-office failures of The Brave One and The Invasion? You could say it was that they both looked really awful, or, if you were as astute as Warner Bros. production president Jeff Robinov, you'd notice the other glaring similarity that binds the two: female leads. You'd realize, despite overwhelming evidence that many female-led films over the years have succeeded, and that innumerable male-led films have bombed, that it's obviously the very presence of women as leads that is causing any and all losses in theaters. Thus, logically, Robinov has reportedly said, "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead," a statement women's groups are having issues with for some reason. I don't even know what to say that modern society, a constitutional amendment, and the unusual success of The View hasn't already shouted. This has to be a joke, right? ...

Warner Bros. Denies Inflammatory Comments by Executive
Published 10/9/2007 by Neil Miller at Film School Rejects
... The story was broken by the semi-dubious Nikke Finke over at Deadline Hollywood, who very quickly alerted the authority on anti-female defamation, Gloria Allred. Then this afternoon, the internet community went on a mission to find out the truth and then hang Mr. Robinov out to dry. John Campea at ...

Warner Bros Denies Comments
Published 10/9/2007 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... which was picked up by many outlets around the web, and originated on Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood website. Finke claimed that three separate Warner Bros producers had informed her that Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead.” ...

A movie world without women? No thanks
Published 10/9/2007 by Reel Fanatic at Reel Fanatic
... And knowing this comes from Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily column in L.A. Weekly, it should perhaps be greeted with skepticism, but since I've yet to see any kind of denial I have to assume it's true. ...

Linking Daisies
Published 10/9/2007 by NATHANIEL R at Film Experience Blog
... Nikki Finke Warner Bros ignorant sexism and strange notions of box office cause & effect ...

Warner Brothers Denies Comments About Female Leads
Published 10/9/2007 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... This is where things really start to boil overboard. Some people are backing Warner Brothers up saying that it was Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood who pulled the quote out of context and made up a story of her own. Most of us who originally reported this story still believe that Jeff Robinov did actually make that statement and Warner Brothers is quickly and quietly trying to cover it up. It's almost impossible to truly find out the factual answers to these kinds of questions, but for now discussion will ensue and Warner Brothers may learn their lesson. ...

Warner Bros Denies Rumors of Gender Discrimination
Published 10/9/2007 at FilmWad
... LAWeekly columnist Nikki Finke posted recently in her Deadline Hollywood Daily column that Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Brothers, had declared a ban on films with women in the lead. From Finke's column: ...

He Should Be Fired!
Published 10/9/2007 by Perez Hilton at Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
... The LA Weekly is reporting that Robin made his misogynistic decree following the box office disappointments of Jodie Foster’s The Brave One and Nicole Kidman’s The Invasion. ...

He Should Be Fired!
Published 10/9/2007 by default at Woo Factor
Jeff Robinov, Warner Bros president of production, has industry players buzzing over his future. His decree that we are no longer doing movies with women in the lead has sent shock waves throughout the movie biz and even Gloria Allred is complaining! The LA Weekly is reporting (...) ...

Gloria Allred Threatens to Boycott Warner Brothers
Published 10/9/2007 by karina at SpoutBlog
... This is a holdover from the weekend, but it’s worth going back to: Nikki Finke says three people have told her that Warner Brothers is no longer greenlighting pictures build around female stars. This is apparently in reaction to dismal box office returns for The Brave One and The Invasion, but as Finke points out, those weren’t exactly the chickiest of flicks. Ergo, this seems to be less about the female audience and more about the general audience not responding to female stars. Or, it could be about WB looking for scapegoats to cover their own failure to efficiently market genre fare to grown-ups. Regardless: it looks bad, and, if it’s true, celebrity feminist/attorney Gloria Allred (who has been ...

For The Record
Published 10/10/2007 at The Hot Blog
... Since Nikki Finke hasn't bothered to report it or run it, someone should probably point out that Warner Bros denied the report Nikki made on her gossip blog outright to CBS News, stating, "Mr Roboinov never made that statement nor is it his philosophy." ...

Bros Before Hos
Published 10/10/2007 by Stamos at Brahsome - Care To Get Nice?
Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that Warner Brothers executive Jeff Robinov issued a decree that WB is 'no longer doing movies with women in the lead.' Wow, Jeff. If that's true, you, and the rest of the WB, get to look forward to months and years of being bashed by Oprah, The View, Gloria Allred, and women everywhere. How could he make such a statement? Honestly, if WB refused to make movies with women in the lead previously, we could have found ourselves mired in a worthless existence without such classics as Miss Congeniality 2, What A Girl Wants, Catwoman, Chasing Liberty, or The Reaping? ...

Is Hollywood no longer in the leading-lady business?
Published 10/10/2007 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... ) and The Brave One (starring Jodie Foster, pictured), Warner Bros. is denying the rumor in the blogosphere (that is, in Nikki Finke's "Deadline Hollywood" online column for L.A. Weekly) that the studio has decided to stop greenlighting actress-driven films. In fact, Warners tells ...

Robinov responds to Finke's report
Published 10/10/2007 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Having no doubt heard from numerous irate female producers and representatives of various big-name actresses over Nikki Finke ...

Official Denials: Warner Bros. Reassures Hollywood It Still Loves The Ladies
Published 10/10/2007 by Mark at Defamer
... of Friday's Deadline Hollywood Daily story claiming that he's no longer interested in throwing his money down a vagina-shaped well by producing female-star-driven features, Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov takes to the trades today to reaffirm his studio's continuing commitment to lady-based entertainments, ...

Warner Brothers Doesn't Like Women
Published 10/10/2007 by Moviezzz at The Moviezzz Blog
... According to Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily, after the poor box office of Jodie Foster's THE BRAVE ONE, Warner Brothers President of Production, Jeff Robinov, has stated the studio will no longer make films with women in the lead. ...

Chicks behind the flicks
Published 10/11/2007 by Rebecca Traister at Salon
... On Friday of last week, movie business reporter Nikki Finke wrote on "Deadline Hollywood" that Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov had issued a company edict: "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." According to Finke's sources, Robinov's decree came in the wake of underperformance by two summer ...

From the Editor's Desk: Warner Bros. Needs to Get Laid
Published 10/11/2007 at Movie Blog
... Nikki Finke, the blogger over at Deadline Hollywood who broke the story, continues to go on and on about the fiasco, while, I imagine, folks over at Warners are scrambling to correct this PR nightmare. Finke reminds me of that girl from Can't Hardly Wait who runs around throughout the entire film trying to get people to sign her yearbook. Whatever happened to that girl after everyone completely dissed her? Where did she go after high school? What is she doing now? Let me take a wild guess ... Anyway, I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around this whole thing. If it's true, and Robinov did say those things, then why is he blaming the actresses? I asked a friend of mine, who saw both The Invasion and The Brave One, if he didn't like the films because of Kidman and Foster. His answer: "I didn't like them because they sucked. Kidman and Foster had not ...

Elle's Women in Hollywood Roundtable
Published 10/11/2007 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
... irector Patty Jenkins Liked Spiderman . Admits to concentrating on personal life after making Monster . Producer Cathy Konrad Has small child, married to business partner Jim Mangold , admits to scaling back work for family. Writer/director/producer Kimberly Piece Loves blowing things up, just made second film. Writer/producer Andrea Berloff Has little kid, wonders why more women aren't in film biz. But she's fairly new to the business, as World Trade Center was her first produced script. Writer/producer Margaret Nagle Breaks away from approved party line by believing babe/nerd hookup in Knocked Up . Universal president of production Donna Langley (called "that rarest of Hollywood breeds, a female studio head", as Amy Pascal , wasn't in the room.) Points out that despite Jodie Foster's tiny cameo, lots of women went to see Inside Man starring Denzel Washington . See Queen Latifah, wish fulfillment above. The discussion was held in August, so Jeff Robinov's foot hadn't entered ...

From the Editor's Desk: Warner Bros. Needs to Get Laid
Published 10/11/2007 by Erik Davis at Cinematical
... Nikki Finke, the blogger over at Deadline Hollywood who broke the story, continues to go on and on about the fiasco, while, I imagine, folks over at Warners are scrambling to correct this PR nightmare. Finke reminds me of that girl from Can't Hardly Wait who runs around throughout the entire film trying to get people to sign her yearbook. Whatever happened to that girl after everyone completely dissed her? Where did she go after high school? What is she doing now? Let me take a wild guess ... Anyway, I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around this whole thing. If it's true, and Robinov did say those things, then why is he blaming the actresses? I asked a friend of mine, who saw both The Invasion and The Brave One, if he didn't like the films because of Kidman and Foster. His answer: "I didn't like them because they sucked. Kidman and Foster had not ...

Working Women: Hollywood Women On Working In A Schlong-Obsessed Industry
Published 10/11/2007 by Seth at Defamer
In what is quickly escalating into a bitter, Riggs vs. King-esque volley played out on the cement courts of the print media--first Deadline Hollywood Daily claimed Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov was scrawling "DEEP TURNAROUND" in pink hi-liter on any project with a female lead, then Robinov fights back by listing every chick-flick he's ever ...

Women Staying or Going at Warner Bros?
Published 10/14/2007 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
... By Brad Brevet | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Kidman in The Invasion On October 5th Nikki Finke over at her blog Deadline Hollywood stated that Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov was heard saying, "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead," after the recent failures of ...

Shorts, 10/14.
Published 10/14/2007 at GreenCine Daily
... " roundtable held at Salon in the wake of the brouhaha sparked by Nikki Finke's reporting that Warner Bros has issued a decree: "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Sitting round the table are producer ...

Discuss: Is Hollywood Misogynistic?
Published 5/4/2008 by Eric Kohn at Cinematical
... With "Iron Man, Batman, Big Angry Green Man" and other massive expressions of virility invading the box office, female roles appear to be relegated to the last row of the multiplex. Dargis touches on the rumors that Warner Bros head Jeff Robinov believes no woman has been able to sell a movie since ...

Is Sexism the Overlooked -Ism?
Published 6/13/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
... chants there would have been a real problem, not just a simple matter of escorting a couple of gentlemen out of the auditorium. I am not saying racism is dead and buried, far from it, but it appears sexism is certainly a contender. So, is it too much for Heigl to comment on a film of her's being sexist? Is it too much for her to demand quality writing from "Grey's Anatomy" scripters? Is it career suicide to do so? Heigl, Clinton and Sex and the City aside, remember the charges Nikki Finke made last year saying Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov said, "We ...

Things Are Looking Up For The Women In Hollywood [Women Scorned]
Published 7/2/2008 by Jessica at Jezebel
... famously declared , "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Well apparently he's doing at least one movie with a woman in the lead, and while that's heartening, movies still have a long way to go. Looking at the just-released ...