Exclusive: Sony Hack Reveals Jennifer Lawrence Is Paid Less Than Her Male Co-Stars

Email correspondences from the Sony hack reveal that Jennifer Lawrence was compensated less than her male co-stars, compounding the studio’s gender pay gap problems.

One of the most prominent A-list presences in the emails ripped from Sony’s servers by the hacking collective Guardians of Peace is none other than Jennifer Lawrence (who is, sadly, no stranger to hacking herself).
Lawrence and her fabulous email handle (peanutbutt) make several cameos in the leak, including numerous pleasant exchanges with Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, over her dazzling turn in American Hustle, which was co-financed by Sony arm Columbia Pictures. There’s also an interesting email exchange between Pascal and Brian Helgeland, screenwriter of the planned Cleopatra biopic, with Pascal suggesting that Helgeland dump Angelina Jolie in favor of Lawrence—an idea Helgeland says he’s given some thought to.
The Daily Beast has combed through much of the hundreds of thousands of emails and unearthed many other shocking revelations which you can find here. 

But the most troubling reveal concerning Lawrence is in regard to her financial compensation, with hacked emails revealing that the Hunger Games star was compensated less than her male co-stars on American Hustle.

But the most troubling reveal concerning Lawrence is in regard to her financial compensation with hacked emails revealing that the Hunger Games star was compensated less than her male co-stars on American Hustle.
In an email dated December 5, 2013, Andrew Gumpert, President of Business Affairs and Administration for Columbia Pictures, wrote to Pascal and Doug Belgrad, President of SPE Motion Picture Group, about the “points”—or back-end compensation—that each actor was to receive on Hustle. (The “Amy” referred to is Amy Adams, “O'Russell” is director David O. Russell, “Renner” is Jeremy Renner, and  “Megan” is Megan Ellison, head of Annapurna Pictures, which co-financed Hustle.)
“Got a steve warren/gretchen rush call that it’s unfair the male actors get 9% in the pool and jennifer is only at 7pts,” the email reads. “You may recall Jennifer was at 5 (amy was and is at 7) and WE anted in 2 extra points for Jennifer to get her up to 7. If anyone needs to top jennifer up it’s megan. BUT I think amy and Jennifer are tied so upping JL, ups AA.”
Gumpert added, “The current talent deals are:  O’Russell: 9%; Cooper: 9%; Bale: 9%; Renner: 9%; Lawrence: 7%; Adams: 7%.”
Pascal’s email response to the news of Lawrence making less than her male colleagues—despite the fact that she’s far and away the biggest star of the picture, since Hustle was green-lit after The Hunger Games—was: “there is truth here.”
The news is even more troubling when you take into consideration that the hack also revealed a staggering gender pay gap among Sony staffers. According to a spreadsheet listing the salaries of 6,000 employees, 17 of those employees were raking in $1 million or more, but only one of those $1 million-plus employees is a woman. Also, analyzing the pay of the two co-presidents of production at Columbia Pictures—who have the same job—pointed to another gender-pay disparity, with Michael De Luca ($2.4 million) making almost $1 million more than Hannah Minghella ($1.5 million).Exclusive: Sony Hack Reveals Jennifer Lawrence is Paid Less Than Her Male Co-Stars

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This morning, Emma Stone reacted to her Golden Globe nomination for Birdman with a pitch-perfect statement in which she expressed appreciation for the honor and ribbed the all-reigning queen of Hollywood, Meryl Streep—who happens to be her competition in the best-supporting-actress category for Into the Woods. “I have no words,” Stone said. “I am so incredibly honored and grateful for this and feel insanely lucky to have had the chance to work with Alejandro, Michael, Edward, and the whole cast and crew of the beautiful madness that is Birdman. Now can someone please explain who this ‘Meryl Streep’ woman is?!”
Stone is the latest in a series of Streep’s awards competitors who have had the good humor (and, in some cases, just gall) to poke fun at or just throw shade at the three-time Oscar winner. Ahead, a brief history of the culprits and their cutups or putdowns.
Jennifer Lawrence: When Lawrence climbed onstage to accept her 2013 Golden Globe, the actress, who was beating out Streep for August: Osage County, looked at her statuette’s inscription and blurted out, “Oh, what does it say? ‘I beat Meryl!’” Some audience members did not realize that the quip was an innocent nod to a 1996 comedy. “It’s never a good idea for me to wing it, but it was a quote from First Wives Club,” the Silver Linings Playbook star later told David Letterman. The actress also used her segment on the Late Show to repent for her sin of mock-dissing Meryl. “First of all, it’s Meryl Streep. You can’t offend Meryl Streep.” Still, she did not understand how the Internet could misinterpret her playful remark. “All of a sudden I hate Meryl Streep. Is that what this turned into? I don’t like Meryl Streep? As if I had my eyes on getting that girl forever and I was like, ‘Finally! I knew it would happen one day.’” (About a month later, Lawrence tripped on her way up to accept her Oscar. We’re not saying that the slip was punishment from the Meryl Streep gods she had unintentionally angered during her Golden Globes ad lib. But we’re also not saying it was not.)
Sandra Bullock: Perhaps no actress has had as much fun rivaling Meryl Streep than Bullock. During the lead up to the 2010 Oscars, Bullock (who would win for The Blind Side) regularly ribbed her fellow nominee (who was up for Julie & Julia). “With Meryl, when [the awards season] thing started, I left her a voice mail going, ‘You've got to watch your back. I’m gonna cut you. I’m gonna take you down,” Bullock told the Associated Press. “And then she sent me dead orchids and told me to die, so I sent her a case of liquor and told her to toast to white trash.” When the two were paired up against each other again in 2014 (for Gravity and August: Osage County), Bullock joked, “People don't realize that there's a side of Meryl that's just mean. You walk away and she'll just rip your dress . . . I know not to turn my back on her.” If the fight were physical, she joked, “I will try to kick her ass but she will kill me. That's just how it's gonna end and then she'll be lovely Meryl again and I'll just be dead.”
Katharine Hepburn: The legendary actress was nominated alongside Streep at the 1982 Oscars, where she beat the then up-and-comer thanks to her performance in On Golden Pond. Although Hepburn did not say anything publicly, her official biographer A. Scott Berg wrote that Streep was Hepburn’s “least favorite modern actress.” Perhaps a swipe taken out of jealousy, the biographer wrote that all Hepburn could hear when Streep was on-screen was, “Click click click,” referring to wheels turning inside Streep’s head.
Emma Thompson: Although the two Oscar winners are dear friends—a bond that was seemingly cemented with their kiss in Mike Nichols’s HBO mini-series Angels in America—the two never miss an opportunity to poke fun at one another on the awards trail. When Streep beat out her co-star for the Emmy in 2004, she joked about her fellow nominees in her speech. “Glenn (Close) is my friend so I know she`ll forgive me, Helen Mirren is an acting god, and no one has put a better performance on film than Judy Davis in The Judy Garland Story. The only one in the group is Emma Thompson, who will hold a grudge for the rest of her life. But who cares?”
In turn, last year, after Streep was nominated for an Oscar for August: Osage County and Thompson was snubbed for Saving Mr. Banks, Streep told Ellen DeGeneres how she had reached out to her friend to offer her condolences. “I was really shocked [by Thompson’s snub],” Streep explained. “I wrote [Thompson] a long, heartfelt e-mail about how bad I felt. She wrote back and just said, ‘Good.’”
Sharon Stone: Fifteen years after she was nominated for an Oscar for Casino—the same year that Streep was up for The Bridges of Madison County—Stone threw some world-class shade at Streep during an interview with Tatler magazine. On the subject of actresses’ looks, Stone said, “I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to.” It gets worse. “I look at her and I think, I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills—that looks like me in real life.” It gets even worse still. “Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”
Kate Winslet: When Winslet beat out Streep for the 2009 Oscar (Winslet for The Reader vs. Streep for Doubt), the British actress joked that Streep would just have to accept her glowing speech remarks instead of another statuette that year. “And I want to acknowledge my fellow nominees, these goddesses. I think we all can’t believe we’re in a category with Meryl Streep at all. I'm sorry, Meryl, but you have to just suck that up!”
Susan Sarandon: The actress, who was up for an Academy Award twice against Meryl Streep, has not minced words when speaking about her peer to press. “Everything goes to Meryl first. It’s the law,” Sarandon is quoted as saying during an interview with Fame magazine in 1989. “I am one of those who think Meryl is a great actress. I don’t elevate her to the goddess level, but she does get first crack at all the women’s roles. If other women had the same shots she’s had, they could equal her.” She even added a more personal dig. “If her household runs as perfectly as her press would have us believe, I’ll slash my throat.” Perhaps Sarandon’s attitude towards Streep softened though after she beat the Oscar winner in 1995 with her performance in Dead Man Walking.
Daniel Day-Lewis: Obviously the actor was not up directly against Streep at the 2013 Oscars—wouldn’t that have been something, though?—where they both won their leading actor categories—him, for Lincoln, and her, for The Iron Lady. But Day-Lewis livened up his acceptance speech by joking that he had been in competition with the world’s finest actress for the part. “It's a strange thing because three years ago, before we decided to do a straight swap, I had actually been committed to play Margaret Thatcher [in The Iron Lady] and Meryl was Steven [Spielberg]'s first choice for Lincoln. And I'd like to see that version.”
But perhaps no one is as good at poking fun at Meryl Streep as Meryl Streep herself. When she accepted the 2012 Oscar, she started off by joking, “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no! Oh, come on why her! Again!’” After an impeccably timed beat, she continued, “But, whatever.” And when taking the 2009 Screen Actors Guild award for Doubt, she joked about her own legend. “I’m really really really shocked,” she said during her acceptance speech, before adding, “even though awards mean nothing to me anymore.”

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Hayden Leslie Panettiere http://adf.ly/CG8Ag (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress and singer. Hayden plays the character Claire Bennet on the NBC television program Heroes. The advertising campaign and slogan for the program known as "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World" has helped make Panettiere famous.



Panettiere began modeling at the age of five months. She then began appearing in commercials at 11 months, first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool.[6] She landed a role as Sarah Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1994- 1997) and later as Lizzie Spaulding on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light when she was seven years old (1996 - 2000). While on Guiding Light, Panettiere's character Lizzie battled leukemia. The show received a Special Recognition Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for bringing national awareness of the disease to the attention of daytime viewers.


Panettiere appears as Claire Bennet in the NBC series Heroes as a high school cheerleader with regenerative healing powers. Due to her role on Heroes, she became a regular on the science fiction convention circuit, invited to attend conventions around the world in 2007, including GenCon, New York Comic-Con and Fan Expo Canada. In regard to the roles she has played, Panettiere admitted that options are sometimes limited because "people look at [her] as either the 'popular cheerleader' type or just 'the blonde'."



She has appeared in over a dozen full-length feature films, as well as several made-for-TV movies. She provided the voice for Dot in the Pixar CGI animated movie A Bug's Life.[9] She also played the role of Coach Yoast's daughter, Sheryl, in the 2000 Disney film Remember The Titans. In addition, she appeared as the voice of Kairi in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games for the Playstation 2. Panettiere appeared on FOX's Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal's daughter, and had a recurring guest role on Malcolm in the Middle and guest starred in Law & Order: SVU. She starred in Bring It On: All or Nothing as a cheerleader and had a supporting role as Adelaide Bourbon in the recently released independent film Shanghai Kiss. She also appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise playing the main role of a Navy brat. She also stared in Raising Helen, as the adolescant neice.


She appeared in the drama film Fireflies in the Garden as a younger version of Emily Watson's character, Jane Lawrence. In June 2007, she signed with the William Morris Agency, after previously being represented by United Talent Agency. Forbes estimated that she earned $2 million in 2007.

In early 2007, Panettiere appeared on the syndicated Ashton Kutcher-produced show, Punk'd. The appearance was engineered by her mother and involved a male "fan" discussing her work with her, instigating a jealous reaction from the man's spouse.

Curly haired , sandy-voiced actress Mary Steenburgen is a natural when it comes to playing Southerners, probably because she hails from the region herself. Born in Arkansas on February 8, 1953, Steenburgen was the daughter of a railroad employee.
Pursuing drama in college, she headed to New York in 1972,... where she worked with an improvisational troupe. She was spotted by Jack Nicholson, who cast her as his feisty "in name only" frontier wife in 1978's Goin' South. Two years later, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Melvin Dummar's inamorata in Melvin and Howard (1980). Able to convey a wide age and character range, Steenburgen was effectively cast as a free-spirited Frisco girl in Time After Time (1979), the corseted matriarch of a turn-of-the-century household in Ragtime (1981), prim authoress Marjorie Rawlins in Cross Creek (1983), a long-suffering suburban housewife in Parenthood (1989), and a Marcia Clark-like attorney in Philadelphia (1993).


She also portrayed the Jules Verne-loving Western schoolmarm Clara in Back to the Future 3 (1990), a role she perpetuated (via voice-over) on the Back to the Future TV cartoon series. In 1988, she was executive producer of End of the Line, in which she also appeared. Steenburgen's film appearances throughout the 1990s were erratic: some highlights, in addition to Philadelphia, include What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Nixon (1995), and The Grass Harp (1995). In 1999, she starred as Noah's wife in the biblical epic Noah's Ark, sharing the screen with the likes of Jon Voight, F. Murray Abraham, James Coburn, and Carol Kane. Formerly married for several years to actor Malcolm McDowell, Steenburgen married former Cheers star Ted Danson in 1995. The two have collaborated on a number of projects, including 1994's Pontiac Moon and the made-for-TV Gulliver's Travels in 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Taylor Swift isn't looking for love.The 19-year-old singer - who previously dated Jonas Brothers star Joe Jonas - is confident romance will strike when she least expects it.She said: "I don't look for boyfriends. I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to over think it."

The 'Love Story' star insists she doesn't care what her prospective partners do or how they affect her career, and she would never use her relationships for publicity.She added: "When you strategise a relationship too much, like, 'We're not going to be public about it, and we're going to say this in interviews,' when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship. I think that's unfair for the relationship."

Taylor also quashed rumours of rivalry with fellow teen stars Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, insisting they are lucky as their careers allow them to be friends.She explained: "I've always approached this from the place where I don't compete with other girls. I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself. If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely."I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know over the last couple of years. It's really awesome to get to hang out with those girls and to call them friends."

Angelina Jolie has written a new article for Time magazine, calling for more action to end the crisis in Darfur.On Friday, members of the United Nations Security Council will learn the results of the International Criminal Court's Darfur investigation.

"The evidence the prosecutor has presented is clear and compelling," Jolie writes, pointing out that "millions of people have been displaced" and "hundreds of thousands have been killed."Jolie recalls her first trip to Chad to visit refugees from Darfur in 2004.

Since then, she sadly notes, "nothing changed."Despite the Bush administration labeling the Darfur situation as "genocide," Jolie says the words have not "compelled us to intervene."Says the actress (who turned 36 Thursday): "Darfur has almost disappeared from the news, and experts now call it a 'low intensity" conflict.' But the intensity of the crisis has not lessened for those who are struggling to survive."

"More than 250,000 people from Darfur have lived destitute lives in refugee camps in Chad for six years now," says the mother of six. "Camps with more than two million internally displaced persons inside Darfur are even worse. Thirty percent of those displaced are school-age children. Girls leaving the camps are raped; boys leaving the camps are killed. They want an education; they want to go back to their villages, to their land; they want peace. But they also want justice."

Hills star Heidi Pratt has been rushed to a Costa Ric an hospital with an undisclosed medical emergency, Us magazine.com has learned exclusively.

Pratt's husband, Spencer -- who is competing with his wife on N BC's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here -- is traveling with her to the hospital, a source in Costa Rica confirms.

No further details have been made available as to the specifics of Heidi's condition or what it means for the series.