These 2 major U.S. movie studios aren't going to release a single female-directed movie before 2018

Two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios will not be releasing a single film directed by a woman between now and 2018, an investigation by The Wrap has found. Of all 22 forthcoming films from 20th Century Fox and all 25 from Paramount, every single one will be helmed by a man.

It is a depressing sign for the future of an already embroiled industry: The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film has previously reported that women directed only 7 percent of Hollywood's top 250 films in 2014, with men directing 85 percent of all movies made in the United States. Looking back, the last film from Paramount made by a woman was Selma, in 2014. For 20th Century Fox, the last female-directed film was from even longer ago, Ramona and Beezus, in 2010.

"[Women] can't get on the studio track. The studios have been awakened and schooled on their unconscious bias. No longer is it acceptable to say that women are not competent, or there are not enough women, or that they don't know any women. This consistent and persistent view of women directors is plain and simple discrimination," Women and Hollywood founder Melissa Silverstein said.

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The investigation also looked at other major movie studios, including Disney, Universal, Sony, and Warner Bros., all of which are releasing women-directed movies later this year. See the full results over at The Wrap.