LA Times: Swearing by 'Bridesmaids' Success
Jun 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM 
Female filmmakers hope the R-rated comedy has proved to Hollywood that girls can be raunchy and funny — and make money at the box office.
June 23, 2011 by Nicole Sperling
Hollywood's a notoriously cutthroat place, but the all-girl ensemble film "Bridesmaids" has cast a mysterious, uniting spell over women in show biz who might otherwise see one another as rivals.
...
Hutch Parker, chairman of New Regency, which is behind "What's Your Number?," immediately sparked to the screenplay by Jen Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan (the script is based on the book "20 Times a Lady" by Karyn Bosnak). But he says it's one of only a handful over the last five years in this genre that have intrigued him.
"People are not writing this type of material in general," he said. "It may be because the cultural engineering of the town has long believed that there isn't a market for this kind of strong, liberated, but real female character..."
Read more @ Los Angeles Times
Story also appeared in...
- 6/23/11 The Baltimore Sun
- 6/23/11 The Republic
- 6/26/11 My West Texas