Movie City News Archive for July, 2014
Austria Film ProdCos Get Order For ISPs To Block Online Piracy Sites By Friday
Austria Film ProdCos Get Order For ISPs To Block Online Piracy Sites By Friday
Read the full article »“When Did Crowdfunding Become A Four-Letter Word?”
“When Did Crowdfunding Become A Four-Letter Word?”
Read the full article »Comcast Confessions, Drawn From Interviews With Over 100 Employees: “When Every Call Is A Sales Call”
Comcast Confessions, Drawn From Interviews With Over 100 Employees: “When Every Call Is A Sales Call”
Read the full article »Toronto Int’l Sets Preems, Including New Kevin Smith, Winterbottom, Broomfield, The Yes Men, Sion Sono, Strickland, Dave McKean
Toronto Int’l Sets Preems, Including New Kevin Smith, Winterbottom, Broomfield, The Yes Men, Sion Sono, Strickland, Dave McKean
Read the full article »Are These The Ten Best-Dressed Of Comic-Con?
Are These The Ten Best-Dressed Of Comic-Con?
Read the full article »James Shigeta, 81, Acted In Die Hard, Flower Drum Song
James Shigeta, 81, Acted In Die Hard, Flower Drum Song
Read the full article »“I was getting so eager and antsy and I wanted to make something so badly, because now two years had gone by since Another Earth and all I was doing was writing. So I asked Searchlight if it would be alright if I did this prequel to a sequel that doesn’t exist yet, and they were so kind and so gracious.”
“I was getting so eager and antsy and I wanted to make something so badly, because now two years had gone by since Another Earth and all I was doing was writing. So I asked Searchlight if it would be alright if I did this prequel to a sequel that doesn’t exist yet, and they…
Read the full article »Albert Maysles And Jeffrey Katzenberg Among 22 National Medal Of The Arts Recipients
Albert Maysles And Obama Contributor Jeffrey Katzenberg Among 22 National Medal Of The Arts Recipients
Read the full article »TIFF’s Cameron Bailey Explains The Festival’s Premiere Policy
“Films will go to one festival or the other for different reasons. And if they go to another North American festival first, they can still come to us, just in a different place.” TIFF’s Cameron Bailey Explains The Festival’s Premiere Policy
Read the full article »Proposed George Lucas Museum Gets Architects, Including Leading Chicago Firm Studio Gang
Proposed George Lucas Museum Gets Architects, Including Leading Chicago Firm Studio Gang
Read the full article »“Can Boyhood be a significant player in the Oscar season for a company that has never really made awards a part of its overall business model?”
“Can Boyhood be a significant player in the Oscar season for a company that has never really made awards a part of its overall business model?”
Read the full article »Fervent Fans Examine Rare Silent Films At “Mostly Lost”
Fervent Fans Examine Rare Silent Films At “Mostly Lost”
Read the full article »Time Warner Not Impressed By Offer Of Seats On 21st Century Fox Board
Time Warner Not Impressed By Offer Of Seats On 21st Century Fox Board
Read the full article »Teacher-Turned-Author Bel Kaufman, 103, Wrote Up The Down Staircase
Teacher-Turned-Author Bel Kaufman, 103, Wrote Up The Down Staircase
Read the full article »Netflix Adds Docs To Its Roster Of Originals, Including Sundance Standout E-Team
Netflix Adds Docs To Its Roster Of Originals, Including Sundance Standout E-Team
Read the full article »As Would Be Expected, John Waters’ Program Notes For His “Movies I’m Jealous I Didn’t Make” Series Are Darn Nifty
As Would Be Expected, John Waters‘ Program Notes For His “Movies I’m Jealous I Didn’t Make” Series Are Darn Nifty
Read the full article »Ron Rosenbaum On Godwin’s Law And “Explaining Hitler”
“I was kind of shocked by the rise of what I call the feel-good Holocaust genre, in which Holocaust movies have to be in someway an affirmation of the human spirit. That there’s a kind of unwillingness to face the fact that the Holocaust was a pretty absolute negation of the human spirit. To try…
Read the full article »A Bountiful Obit Of Movie Prop Warehouse Owner Thomas C. Senesac And His Charmed Life
A Bountiful Obit Of Movie Prop Warehouse Owner Thomas C. Senesac And His Charmed Life
Read the full article »The Brilliant Adam Curtis On The Surveilling Of Time And The Human Mind
“Throughout the western world new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present – and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same.” The Brilliant Adam Curtis On The…
Read the full article »Watch Michael Almereyda’s Sundance Prize-Winning Short About A Photographer And His Work
Watch Michael Almereyda’s Sundance Prize-Winning Short About A Photographer And His Work
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