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вЂњI grew up in love with the movies, and I somehow wanted to be involved in making movies.вЂќ She dabbled in theater, but didnвЂ™t get serious about show business until after college.

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I just sold a pitch, there are offers on the table and even TV is possible.вЂќДЄfter graduating from Mater Dei, Mumolo attended UC Berkeley as a history major. вЂњBut I do think that some of my crazy ideas are being taken a little more seriously now. вЂњItвЂ™s only been a week, and IвЂ™m still living in my little blue house in Burbank, with 15 loads of laundry ready to go. вЂњIвЂ™m not sure how much my life has changed,вЂќ she said. The success of вЂњBridesmaidsвЂќ changed some backward thinking in the industry, and itвЂ™s moving MumoloвЂ™s career forward. You can bet the funny farm that studios are clamoring to make comedies with women. If one person вЂ“ or in this case, two women вЂ“ can show studios that something is possible, the town will change. вЂњWe never set out to save the world of comedy for women.вЂќД«ut thatвЂ™s how it works in Hollywood.

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вЂњOur goal was just to get a movie made,вЂќ she added. Suddenly, the fate of women in comedy was hanging on how well вЂBridesmaidsвЂ™ did at the box office.

вЂњWe werenвЂ™t even aware of those feelings until just before the movie opened, and all these articles started to appear about whether women were funny enough to carry a movie. The mother of two small children, Mumolo said she and Wiig never concerned themselves with the possible roadblocks in front of them caused by ignorant studio prejudices. We tried to get as many of them as we could into the movie, but there are still so many waiting in the wings. вЂњThis project started just because we wanted to write something that we could put all our funny friends in. вЂњIt never crossed our minds,вЂќ she explained. While Mumolo, who got her start in the Summer Conservatory at South Coast Repertory, acknowledges that there is this myth in Hollywood about women, but she and Wiig were undaunted when they started writing вЂњBridesmaidsвЂќ in 2006. Have people never seen a Goldie Hawn movie? Or a Lily Tomlin movie? Or a Madeline Kahn movie? Or anything with Gilda Radner?вЂќ

вЂњI donвЂ™t quite get that whole women canвЂ™t be funny thing,вЂќ the screenwriter told me this week. Apparently, The Groundlings forgot to read the memo about women not being funny. Mumolo, Wiig and McCarthy met while members of the Los Angeles-based improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings. She already has signed to write a second movie (вЂњBridesmaidsвЂќ was her first screenplay) with another cast member from вЂњBridesmaidsвЂќ вЂ“ Melissa McCarthy. The strong showing at the box office вЂ“ it came in second to a comic-book movie вЂ“ not only settled the argument over whether women are funny, but it made a star out of Wiig, and turned Mumolo into one of the hottest screenwriters in Hollywood. How does she know she would have had a bigger role? Oh, did I forget to mention that Mumolo was not only a co-producer on the film, but wrote the comedy with Wiig?ДЄnd theyвЂ™re both women! How is that possible? Annie would have had a much bigger role in the movie вЂ“ as one of the bridesmaids вЂ“ if she had not been eight-months pregnant at the time of the filming. Mumolo, who grew up in Irvine, had a small role in вЂњBridesmaids.вЂќ She plays a nervous airline passenger who sits next to Kristen Wiig. вЂњBridesmaidsвЂќ opened better than expected, although the expectations вЂ“ even by the studio that released it вЂ“ were intentionally kept low because of the ridiculous idea held by the studios that the public believed that women could not write and star in a funny movie. The point was that so-called experts were wondering if the movie public would bother to buy tickets to a female movie comedy. It didnвЂ™t matter that the movie was getting incredibly good reviews before it opened.

woman behind вЂBridesmaidsвЂ™ вЂ“ Orange County Register Even the plot description is funny, though frustratingly vague: 'Best friends who find themselves in over their heads and out of their depths, which were, perhaps, not too deep to begin with.' Whatever-I trust these two with my life.The O.C. Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo's first post-Bridesmaids script-and Wiig's directorial debut The New York Times reports that the writing team behind Bridesmaids is thankfully at it again, and that Wiig will direct the project. Mark your long-term calendars for these seven productions. But I shouldn't have been so surprised-Hollywood is generally a little slow on the uptake, which is why now, not then, is the most exciting time in a while for female-driven projects in development. But it's been more than enough time for what I thought would happen after Bridesmaids to happen I thought we'd see a flurry of girl-ensemble blockbusters trying, for better or worse, to capitalize on that very clear indicator that women like to go see movies about women. I know: It doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

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