Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has decided that the company will “no longer [produce] movies with women in the lead.”

This brutal policy came from the mere fact that two recent Warner movies starring Jodie Foster and Nicole Kidman (The Brave One and The Invasion respectively) did not do well at the box office.

“It’s a phenomenal thing to say. What are we in the 1700s where women are back to being barefoot and pregnant?” said an anonymous producer. “What’s next — fire all the Warner Bros women executives?”

In response to Robinov’s new policy, Gloria Allred made the following statement:

“If that’s what he said, when movies with men as the lead fail, no one says we’ll stop making movies with men in the lead. This is an insult to all moviegoers and particularly women. It is truly unfortunate that women get blamed for decisions which are made by men. Instead of taking responsibility for their own lack of judgment about which scripts to make, directors to hire and budgets to OK, some men in the movie industry find it easier to place blame for their lack of success on women leads and to exclude talented female actors from the top employment opportunities in Hollywood in favour of macho males. If that studio confirms that their policy is to now exclude women as leads, then my policy would be to boycott films made by Warner Bros.”






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