#Ry Russo Young

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Title: Before I Fall

Rating: PG-13

Director: Ry Russo-Young

Cast: Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Elena Kampouris, Jennifer Beals, Logan Miller, Cynthy Wu, Erica Tremblay, Medalion Rahimi, Diego Boneta, Kian Lawley, Nicholas Lea, Liv Hewson, Chelsea Gill, Keith Powers, Liam Hall, Alyssa Lynch, Taylor Russell, Roan Curtis

Release year: 2017

Genres: thriller, fantasy, drama, mystery

Blurb: Samantha Kingston has everything...then everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

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Brigid O'Reilly (Emma Lahana) Cloak & Dagger 1x5 Princeton Offense (2018) Directed by Ry Russo-Young 8/ 8

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MARION (2005) · Ry Russo-Young

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Happy 42nd, Ry Russo-Young.

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Music in Film: The Sun is Also a Star (2019) dir. Ry Russo-Young

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WQBY

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Greta Gerwig broke the female director's box office record with "Barbie Doll."

"Barbie Doll" not only broke the first-weekend box office record of 2023 but also shattered the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a female-directed film. According to Monday's studio total, "Barbie Doll" earned $162 million in box office revenue in North American theaters, surpassing the premieres of "Captain Marvel" and "Wonder Woman" co-directed by Anna Boden in 2019, which grossed $153.4 million and $103.3 million, respectively. The film's production cost was reported to be $145 million, which is also lower than "Captain Marvel" ($152 million) and "Wonder Woman" ($200 million).

Globally, the film's international premiere surpassed "Wonder Woman" with $337 million, while "Captain Marvel" had a global opening of $228.3 million. However, "Captain Marvel" still holds the higher global box office at $455 million. "Barbie Doll" exceeded Sunday's estimates by $7 million in its domestic opening weekend, which is significant because 65% of its audience comprises women. This itself is not surprising, but in terms of box office history, films that gross over $100 million tend to have predominantly male audiences (including "Captain Marvel" and "Wonder Woman"). Many have pointed out that this might not be a rule, but rather a lack of big-budget productions and marketing targeted at female audiences.

"Barbie Doll" also secured the third-highest July opening weekend of all time, surpassing Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" and "The Dark Knight Rises" (not accounting for inflation), trailing only behind the live-action "The Lion King" and "The Dark Knight Rises." "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" tops the list.

Greta Gerwig co-wrote and directed "Barbie Doll," aiming to be the first of many successful derivative works inspired by Mattel's iconic doll. In just one weekend, the film's domestic box office surpassed her previous two movies, "Little Women" ($108.1 million) and "Lady Bird" ($49 million). In 2018, Gerwig made history as the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars (for "Lady Bird"). As of 2023, a total of seven women have been nominated for this award, and some have already predicted Gerwig's chances of receiving another nomination at next year's ceremony.

The success of "Barbie Doll" and Gerwig's achievement have been widely celebrated online, prompting many in Hollywood to pause and reflect on this moment. Reese Witherspoon posted, "Well done, GG!" on Instagram, and director Ry Russo-Young wrote that "Barbie Doll" and its success have become a faint beacon of hope amidst strikes and extensive shutdowns.

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« I miss straight Brian…

– Yeah !

– He used to say things like ‘Aren’t vulves gorgeous?’…

– Are they not?

– I mean they all right, yeah, but not the main attraction. »

Fifteen Minutes, Shrinking, 1.03

Ry Russo-Young (D),  Brian Gallivan (S), 03/02/23

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Year in Review: The Most Notable News About Women Directors in 2019

Director Angela Schanelec wins the silver bear for Best Director at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival for her film I Was at Home, But….

Schanelec is the 4th woman to win Best Director at Berlinale. The previous women winners are Astrid Henning-Jensen in 1979 for Vinterborn, Małgorzata Szumowska for Body in 2015 and Mia Hansen-Løve for Things to Come in 2016.

Three women of colour, all of Asian descent, win Oscars for directing. Canadian director Domee Shi wins Best Animated Short Film at the Oscars for her film Bao,  Rayka Zehtabchi win the Best Documentary – Short Subject Oscar for Period. End of Sentence and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin wins the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary for Free Solo.

Anna Boden breaks the record for the highest opening weekend for a film directed by a woman when Captain Marvel, which she directed with Ryan Fleck, opens with an $150 million dollar weekend. The film also later breaks the record for highest grossing film directed by a woman temporarily beating Frozen’s record, only to be unseated a few short months later by the release of Frozen II! 

French legend Agnès Varda, who began making films in 1955 and continued to 2019, dies at the age of 90.

French director Mati Diop becomes the first black woman director to have a film compete for the Palme d’or with her debut film Atlantics (other black women directors have shown movies at Cannes but never in Official Competition). She goes on to win the Grand Prix, widely considered the second highest prize at the festival. She becomes only the 4th woman to win the prize following Márta Mészáros in 1984, Naomi Kawase in 2007, and Alice Rochwacher in 2014.

Céline Sciamma becomes the first woman to win the Queer Palme, an award presented by journalists given to films with LGBT main characters that play at Cannes. She also wins the Best Screenplay award in the official Cannes competition. Sciamma is only the third female scriptwriter to win for a script she didn’t co-write (following other director-writer’s Lynne Ramsay in 2017 and Alice Rohrwacher in 2018). Interestingly enough Ramsay and Rohrwacher both tied with screenplays written by men making 2019 the first year at Cannes where there were no men represented in the Best Screenplay category.

Actress Tessa Thompson urges fellow actors and producers to work with at least one female director every 18 months popularizing the “4% challenge” named after the 4% of the box office that women directed films typically make up. 

Italian director Lina Wertmüller recieves an honorary Oscar. Wertmüller is the first woman to recieve a nomination for Best Direction at the Oscars for her film Seven Beauties.

20 films directed by women are given wide releases, the most ever in one calendar year. It’s progress but that still only represents about 1/6 of the films given wide releases. And while progress is being made, it’s clear that there is still work to do to achieve both gender and racial parity as the vast majority of gains are going to white women who are only working to promote other white creatives. 

The movies and their directors:

Miss Bala (Catherine Hardwicke), Poms (Zara Hayes), Breakthrough (Roxann Dawson), After (Jenny Gage),  Booksmart (Olivia Wilde), Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck), The Sun is Also a Star (Ry Russo-Young), Little (Tina Gordon Chism), Blinded by the Light (Gurinder Chadha),The Farewell (Lulu Wang), The Kitchen (Andrea Berloff), Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria), Abominable (Jill Culton & Todd Wilderman), Harriet (Kasi Lemmons),  Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) Charlie’s Angels (Elizabeth Banks), Frozen II (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee), Black Christmas (Sophia Takal) Little Women (Greta Gerwig)

No women directors are nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes. This happens most years (only 2 women, Ava DuVernay and Kathryn Bigelow were nominated this decade) but perhaps this year was one of the most egregious. Every year women direct amazing award worthy movies but it’s not every year that they get critical acclaim, box office and campaigns. And this year there were so many. This was reflected more in the acting nominees (7 of whom came from 7 different movies directed by women). The field is getting wider and studios are finally starting to awaken to the fact that women can direct. But the depressing lack of nominees in director shows that despite all the progress men (and almost overwhelmingly white men) are still seen as the most worthy of praise and awards. 

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The Sun Is Also A Star, 2019 (dir. Ry Russo-Young)

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Title: The Sun is Also a Star

Rating: PG-13

Director: Ry Russo-Young

Cast: Yara Shahidi, Charles Melton, Hill Harper, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jake Choi, John Leguizamo, Anais Lee, Miriam A. Hyman, Jordan Williams, Keong Sim, Cathy Shim, Shamika Cotton, Camrus Johnson

Release year: 2019

Genres: romance, drama

Blurb: Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

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Brigid O'Reilly (Emma Lahana) Cloak & Dagger 1x5 Princeton Offense (2018) Directed by Ry Russo-Young 7/ 8

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The Sun is also a Star (2019)

Dir. Ry Russo-Young

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...the film pulled in mixed reviews, though nearly every critic singled out Russo-Young’s strong direction and ability to add new dimensions to a story audiences might have thought they already knew.

Kate Erbland

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The Sun Is Also a Star Featurette - Fate (2019) | Movieclips Coming Soon

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BEFORE I FALL (2017) dir. Ry Russo-Young