Now they've really stepped in it.  According to Deadline Hollywood, Warner Brothers president of production Jeff Robinov is in for a lack of flack.  Why?  "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead."  The official reason seems to have to do with the recent underperformance of Jodie Foster's "The Brave One" and Nicole Kidman's "The Invasion."  Clearly, the recent success of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was entirely because Harry's a boy.  Yep.  Once again, lack of good writing for female roles is being confused with lack of good female-led films.  (Note to Warners: hire Joss Whedon back and let Bruce Timm make more movies.  He and his friends -- McDuffie, Tucker, Wayne, Berkowitz -- can write great female characters.  You'd be printing your own money.)

Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred responded to Robinov's comments.  "If that's what he said, when movies with men as the lead fail, no one says we'll stop making movies with men in the lead. This is an insult to all moviegoers and particularly women. It is truly unfortunate that women get blamed for decisions which are made by men. Instead of taking responsibility for their own lack of judgment about which scripts to make, directors to hire and budgets to OK, some men in the movie industry find it easier to place blame for their lack of success on women leads and to exclude talented female actors from the top employment opportunities in Hollywood in favor of macho males."

Now, there is still a chance that this is a mistake, that despite three producers confirming Robinov's words, he was taken out of context.  I'm not ready to take my pitchfork to the Warner lot yet.  But I'm sharpening it.

Update: Warners Backpedal