For those of you who maybe haven’t heard, there’s a new web series cleverly named Cowl Girl debuting soon. The show is about a young woman who goes by the identity of “Cowl Girl” and is on a mission to meet Pee-wee Herman. On the way, she goes through a series of misadventures and wacky, comedic shenanigans filled to the brim with enough geek references to please any fan. 

For a first look into one of the minds behind the show, Anna Capunay has joined us for an interview. Capunay shares with us a little about herself, the cast and crew, what inspired the show, and more!

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is one of, if not the, best movie Marvel has released to date–which is pretty high praise because Marvel has released some top-notch movies. Iron Man put them on the map and steamrolled their cinematic universe into creation. The Avengers hit an all-time high with both fans and the box office. Now we’re already we’re seeing some pretty high praise for The Winter Soldier coming in from both fans and critics.
With good reason

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There’s still a distinct lack of ladies being their own heroes and driving the plot on screen. All too often women are either being reduced to singular love interests, being used to further a man’s story, or dying for a man’s pain. However, there is some hope to be had. Here are 5 recent shows on television that embrace women in all their diversity.

There’s been a long prevalent myth that movies with women as leads don’t do well at the Box Office.  Studios are often reluctant to produce and fund movies with female leads unless the movie falls under the genre of romance. What studios don’t comprehend is that by making this assumption they are, in fact, closing out a huge market of potential profit. 

Part of the problem is that since there are so few movies starring female leads, when one does badly, it makes it appear as if audiences simply won’t see a movie with a female lead. However history has also showed that movies marketed specifically to women have done very well. 

If romance is the obvious go-to genre for women, then take a look at some of the highest grossing romance movies of all time. Oscar winning movie Ghost, starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, grossed about two hundred seventeen million.  Julia Robert’s now classic Pretty Woman grossed around one hundred seventy-eight million. More recent movies such as, The Notebook garnered a total of one hundred fifteen million worldwide. The Vow, which also starred Rachel McAdams, grossed a total of one hundred ninety-six million worldwide. 

So what does this mean? That women will pay, but only to see romance movies? Not at all. If the success and prevalence of the romance genre has proven anything, it’s that women are a valuable market to target when making and selling movies.

DC and Warner Bros set the internet ablaze when DC when they announced Gal Gadot (Fast and Furious) had snagged the role of Wonder Woman in the upcoming Batman/Superman movie back in early December. 

While fans are excited (if wary) to finally see the Amazonian Princess on the big screen for the first time ever, the decision to include Wonder Woman in a movie with a Batman/Superman title card begs the question: where is Wonder Woman’s own movie?
So we have our question, now where’s our answer? Let’s begin with the first reason why there has yet to be no Wonder Woman solo movie to date.