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THE WEEK IN WOMEN News: GIRLS TRIP, Patty Jenkins, Geena Davis and Women Texas Film Fest

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The hit comedy “Girls Trip” has crossed the $100 million mark at the box office and broken a couple of records in the process. Patty Jenkins, whose “Wonder Woman” is another of this summer’s box office hits, says she hopes the superhero movie’s success will lead to more job openings for women in and beyond the film industry. Geena Davis returns to big screens in the scifi indie,“Marjorie Prime,” about a woman who helps her mother fight dementia by getting her a hologram of her deceased husband to activate her memory. The Dallas-based Women Texas Film Festival announced its award winners, with Brooke and Doug Purdy’s “Quality Problems” taking home the award for Best Feature Film. Read more on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.