Warner Bros. Before Warner Hos

Posted by Peter Smith

Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood columns are the movie biz equivalent of the Drudge Report: juicy bits of unsubstantiated (and unattributed) inside baseball that are wrong a lot more often than they’re right, but are generally so spicy that you just can’t help shoveling them down like jalapeno poppers. The latest, though, is shocking even by sexist Hollywood standards: Finke reports that, due to the underperformance of a handful of recent films, Warner Brothers production boss Jeff Robinoff has decreed that his studio will no longer be making films with women in the lead role. If this is legit, and not just rumor-mongering, Finke speaks for us in quoting Gloria Allred: "It is truly unfortunate that women get blamed for decisions which are made by men." — Leonard Pierce