„Twilight“ -Direktor sagt, Studio habe ihr einen „Mini Cupcake“ gegeben, um den Erfolg des Films zu feiern: Männliche Regisseure erhalten ein „Auto oder ein Drei-Bild-Deal oder was auch immer Sie wollen“
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/twilight-director-sexist-gift-success-cupcake-1236449278/
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> “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke said in an interview with The Guardian that the studio gifted her a “mini cupcake” as a congratulations when the vampire romance opened to an unexpectedly huge $69 million in November 2008. It was a blunt realization that no matter how successful her directing career could be, she would not be valued in the same way as a male director.
> Whereas a successful male director with a franchise-launching huge opening weekend might be gifted “a car, or a three-picture deal, or [the chance] to do basically whatever you want,” Hardwicke continued, she was given more or less a pat on the back.
> “I walked into a room with all these gifts, and everybody was congratulating the studio, and they gave me a box,” she remembered. “I opened it up, and it was a mini cupcake.”
Ngl Catherine is hard to work with. I won’t get into details but she’s more suited to single steady cam shoot things like a doc directing.
She has a point, but male directors hardly get to do whatever they want after their first hit movie.
James Cameron often mentioned how hard he had to fight for Avatar even though he had nothing but hits for over a decade.
Her most recent movie is Mafia Mamma (2023), currently sitting at 21 percent from critics on RT.
I watched the trailer, and it might have been the longest two and a half minutes of my life. Somehow it stars Toni Collette.