Pressure needs to be placed on financiers, producers, studios, agents, and managers to work with women, and this needs to come from both women and men, especially A-listers and greenlighters who can affect change without threat of blacklisting.
It is usually the case that studios, agents and distributors will co-ordinate release dates to capitalise on a star's popularity, but it is rare that an A-list actress will be headlining two remarkable new films and an international political controversy all at the same time.
The media, studios, agents, and PR folks are all participants in this game of telling and selling.
("Feed them, and they will come," said one studio publicity agent about the Foreign Press Association).
A studio or agent may encourage writers to come up with a loud, colorful premise that they can minimize once a network has picked up a show.
"Moneywood" is much less kind to the other producers, studio heads, agents and miscellaneous moguls who populate its messy and ill-defined landscape.
Finke's website, Deadline Hollywood Daily, reports on the business side of Tinseltown, and is a must-read for studio heads, agents and other Hollywood brokers.
She found a roommate in a fellow YouTuber, and over the summer moved from Orange County to Los Angeles to be nearer to her studio and agents. .
Generally missing from Gest's impressive roster for the evening are prominent studio executives, agents and other key players in contemporary Hollywood.
He bitterly denounces a "collusion" of studios and agents who cynically exploit the Golden Globes.
