Movie City News Archive for October, 2014
“Even the horses were afraid of Steve Carell.”
NYT Sunday Profiles Go For Neat Ledes “Even the horses were afraid of Steve Carell.” “Here’s how much of a bookworm Reese Witherspoon is.”
Read the full article »Mark Harris On “The Curse of Crash: The Narratives That Doom Oscar Movies”
Mark Harris On “The Curse of Crash: The Narratives That Doom Oscar Movies”
Read the full article »Stan Lee Media Barred From Asserting “Spider-Man” Rights Claim
Stan Lee Media Barred From Asserting “Spider-Man” Rights Claim
Read the full article »No Love Lost Between Literary Agent Andrew “The Jackal” Wylie And Amazon
“With the restored health of the publishing industry and having some sense of where this sort of Isis-like distribution channel, Amazon, is going to be buried and in which plot of sand they will be stuck, publishers will be able to raise the author’s digital royalty to 40% or 50%. Writers will begin to make…
Read the full article »“Six Ways Franchises Go Terminal”
“Six Ways Franchises Go Terminal”
Read the full article »“Jacques Tati, Historian”
“Jacques Tati, Historian”
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Gone Girl
Even if you’ve never read the book or seen the movie (which may well be the case), you probably think you sort of know what’s going to happen next. But you probably don’t. Gone Girl, which Flynn has cunningly imagined and craftily, stunningly wrote, and which Fincher has visualized with all the eerie expertise which usually marks his high-style crime movies (including Fight Club, Se7en, The Game, Zodiac, Panic Room, and even The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), is, like many another thriller of its type, dependent on how far we’re willing to suspend disbelief. But, in the realms of bestseller-turned-moviedom, Gone Girl is a cut or two above and definitely better than most — full of not always guessable tricks and twists, told in a tense, taut, racy, mostly engrossing style and boasting a lot of tangy, sharply drawn characters, very well played by a very good cast.
Read the full article » 2 Comments »Filmmaker David Barker Goes For Godard’s Gaga
“The use of 3D with this explosion of images is what makes this film by an 83-year-old seem so much younger and freer than most films by directors in their twenties.” Filmmaker David Barker Goes For Godard’s Gaga
Read the full article »Ridley Scott’s RSA Film and Wild Card Launch “Next Generation Marketing” For Global Audiences
RSA FILMS AND WILD CARD DEBUT JOINT MARKETING VENTURE: 3AM Supported by Ridley Scott’s RSA Films and Wild Card, New Creative Consultancy Offers Studios Next Generation Marketing LOS ANGELES, CA, Oct. 30, 2014 – Wild Card, an industry leader in theatrical advertising, and RSA Films, Ridley Scott’s award-winning commercial production company, have launched 3AM, a new venture geared towards the…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Bilge Ebiri On Jennifer Lawrence And What It Means To Be The Biggest Female Star
Bilge Ebiri On Jennifer Lawrence And What It Means To Be The Biggest Female Star And – Debra Granik On Finding Lawrence And Life After Winter’s Bone
Read the full article »NATO And MPAA Set “Zero Tolerance” For Google Glass And Other Wearable Recording Devices
Today, the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theatre Owners announced an update to their joint policy to prevent film theft in theaters. The update was made to fully integrate wearable tech into the rules following a joint meeting of NATO and MPAA theatrical anti-piracy teams at ShowEast, the annual industry…
Read the full article »VICE Media To Launch $100 Million 24-Hour Channel In Canada
VICE Media To Launch $100 Million 24-Hour Channel In Canada
Read the full article »On The “Profound Unprofitability” Of Facebook’s $21.8 Billion-Valued WhatsApp
On The “Profound Unprofitability” Of Facebook’s $21.8 Billion-Valued WhatsApp
Read the full article »Apple CEO Tim Cook Writes, “I’m Proud To Be Gay”
Apple CEO Tim Cook Writes, “I’m Proud To Be Gay”
Read the full article »Moscow Film Museum Endangered Again
Moscow Film Museum Endangered Again
Read the full article »After NYFF, Stuart Klawans Ponders, What Are Movies Good For?
After NYFF, Stuart Klawans Ponders, What Are Movies Good For?
Read the full article »Feds Find “Midnight Rider” Producers Didn’t Warn Crew Of Denial Of Permission To Shoot On Railroad Tracks
Feds Find “Midnight Rider” Producers Didn’t Warn Crew Of Denial Of Permission To Shoot On Railroad Tracks
Read the full article »Hw’d & Fine Talks Hope For Fine Movies With Tony Gilroy
“Really, comic-book movies have destroyed the foreign sales market. But the people want it; it’s an efficient market. That’s why I wish something like The Matrix would come out now–that was an extraordinary film. We need something like that to remind people that they can have a big movie that’s also smart and exciting.” Hw’d…
Read the full article »Haley Joel Osment, Grown Up
Haley Joel Osment, Grown Up
Read the full article »Isabella Rossellini Looks Back On The Sex Lives Of Animals
Isabella Rossellini Looks Back On The Sex Lives Of Animals
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