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Women take charge in Hollywood's hottest 2020 movies: survey

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Agence France-Presse

Female directors look set for a breakthrough year in Hollywood in 2020, according to a survey published Friday that found the four most anticipated films of the year are all helmed by women.It is a rare trend in a town which has only ever nominated five women for the best director Oscar, and whose sometimes ambivalent attitude toward misogyny was laid bare by the #MeToo movement which brought down Harvey Weinstein.&quot;Wonder Woman 1984,&quot; the Gal Gadot-starring sequel out in June, was selected as the year&#x27;s most anticipated film by more than 2,000 moviegoers polled by Fandango website.Patty Jenkins returns to direct after the first film, based on the DC Comics&#x27; Amazonian heroine, took a spectacular $820 million worldwide in 2017.The next two on the list are also superhero movies.&quot;Black Widow,&quot; which kicks off a new phase of Marvel movies, gives Scarlett Johansson&#x27;s popular recurring character her own film. Out in May, it is helmed by Cate Shortland.It is followed by Chloe Zhao&#x27;s &quot;The Eternals,&quot; which in November will introduce a host of new Marvel characters played by a star-studded ensemble cast including Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Kit Harington.The new year&#x27;s fourth-most anticipated film is &quot;Mulan&quot; from Niki Caro, the latest in Disney&#x27;s string of live-action remakes of cartoon classics, out March.Another female-directed superhero movie &quot;Birds of Prey,&quot; a spinoff from 2016&#x27;s &quot;Suicide Squad&quot; which sees Margot Robbie return as Harley Quinn, also appears on the list, in seventh. Cathy Yan oversees the February movie.Other 2020 films piquing interest include James Bond title &quot;No Time to Die,&quot; Pixar&#x27;s otherworldly jazz animation &quot;Soul&quot; and &quot;Fast &amp; Furious 9&quot; the latest in the evergreen petrolhead franchise.

Female directors look set for a breakthrough year in Hollywood in 2020, according to a survey published Friday that found the four most anticipated films of the year are all helmed by women.

Female directors look set for a breakthrough year in Hollywood in 2020, according to a survey published Friday that found the four most anticipated films of the year are all helmed by women.