Movie City News Archive for September, 2017
David Lowery Unearths His First Ghost Story, A Two-And-A-Half Minute Short, Shot On VHS When He Was Seven-And-A-Half
“At age seven all I wanted to do was terrify, but by eighteen I was trending towards a terrible, treacly goth sentimentality – a pit from which I am still struggling to emerge.” David Lowery Unearths His First Ghost Story, A Two-And-A-Half Minute Short, Shot On VHS When He Was Seven-And-A-Half
Read the full article »Pay TV Cord-Cutting Accelerates, Says, Yes, A Survey
Pay TV Cord-Cutting Accelerates, Says, Yes, A Survey
Read the full article »Following Saw Blood Drive Successes, Flashy Fashion Ads By Lionsgate’s Tim Palen For Jigsaw Protest Rules That Restrict Gay Men From Donating Blood
Following Saw Blood Drive Successes, Flashy Fashion Ads By Lionsgate’s Tim Palen For Jigsaw Protest Rules That Restrict Gay Men From Donating Blood
Read the full article »“The trailer sold Ninjago as a wacky comedy about a kid being hated by his father. It was mean-spirited to an unprecedented degree for a kids’ animation trailer, and for parents unfamiliar with the brand, it would be unconscionable to subject a child to a film that purportedly squeezes laughs out of parental abandonment.”
“The trailer sold Ninjago as a wacky comedy about a kid being hated by his father. It was mean-spirited to an unprecedented degree for a kids’ animation trailer, and for parents unfamiliar with the brand, it would be unconscionable to subject a child to a film that purportedly squeezes laughs out of parental abandonment.”
Read the full article »“There has never been a golden age for the sexually liberated cinematic heroine, the woman who reclaims the word ‘slut.’ TV is different: less conservative, better at tracking the ambient sexual mores of the culture. On the big screen, we look to the 1930s and 40s – rightly – for an object lesson in how to make a female character with depth, verve, wit and intelligence, but to expect those women to shag around would be unreasonable, anachronistic.”
“There has never been a golden age for the sexually liberated cinematic heroine, the woman who reclaims the word ‘slut.’ TV is different: less conservative, better at tracking the ambient sexual mores of the culture. On the big screen, we look to the 1930s and 40s – rightly – for an object lesson in how…
Read the full article »Colin Firth Takes Italian Dual Citizenship Over Brexit’s Chaos To Come
Colin Firth Takes Italian Dual Citizenship Over Brexit’s Chaos To Come
Read the full article »“Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production”
“I honestly thought we were doing something fantastic for both sides. We get money, they get money, and it’s all our money.” “Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production”
Read the full article »“Five Untruths About Women In The Film Business”
“Five Untruths About Women In The Film Business”
Read the full article »When Do Celebs Cross Over From “Weird” To “Scary”?
When Do Celebs Cross Over From “Weird” To “Scary”?
Read the full article »Sixty-Eight Things You Can’t Say On China Internet
Sixty-Eight Things You Can’t Say On 600 Companies Of China Internet As Clampdown Continues: Detailed Sex Scenes, Underage Drinking, “Luxury Life,” Killing Endangered Species, “Grotesque” Criminal Cases, Masturbation, “Sexual Liberation”
Read the full article »Cinematographer Sean Price Williams On “A Year of Vomiting Color”
Cinematographer Sean Price Williams On “A Year of Vomiting Color”
Read the full article »A.S. Hamrah On Sofia Coppola, Parties, Wealth And The Wealthy
A.S. Hamrah On Sofia Coppola, Parties, Wealth And The Wealthy
Read the full article »Neil Jordan And Stephen Woolley Look Back 25 Years To The Crying Game
Neil Jordan And Stephen Woolley Look Back 25 Years To The Crying Game
Read the full article »David Gordon Green On Collaboration On Stronger
“John Pollono was there revising the script, and then we brought in our script supervisor, our editor, Dylan Tichenor, and our cinematographer, Sean Bobbitt. Sean could see how the actors would engage or disengage with each other and come up with ways to shoot. He might say, “This is something we want to try close…
Read the full article »Classic Movie Posters Used As Carpet Underlay Sell For Almost $100,000
Classic Movie Posters Used As Carpet Underlay Sell For Almost $100,000
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
The debut of the intrepid Kingsman: The Golden Circle led weekend movie going with an estimated $38.7 million. The session featured two other national newcomers. The Lego Ninjago Movie ranked third with an animated $20.9 million while the horror potboiler Friend Request had a slow burn of $2.2 million.
Read the full article »“The Not-So-Glossy Future of Magazines”
“Sentimentality is probably the biggest enemy for the magazine business. You have to embrace the future.” “The Not-So-Glossy Future of Magazines” As Longtime Editors Vamoose Vanity Fair, Time, Elle, Glamour, With Rolling Stone Soon To Follow
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature
“Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t A ‘Fail,’ It’s A Feature”
Read the full article »Mid-Fantastic Fest, Sexual Assault Allegations Leveled Against Absent Harry Knowles
“Twenty years ago, 18 years ago, women routinely were encouraged to just watch their own behavior and other people who wanted to do inappropriate things or say inappropriate things and be inappropriate and leer and be lecherous without your permission, without your consent, the air in the room was more on the side of, ‘Well,…
Read the full article »“If H’wd Wants A Scapegoat For Poor Ticket Sales, Blame Movie Theaters”
“Leaving aside the shade on the screen, which I have to do for my own sanity, the darkness of the image is an easily fixable problem that very few exhibitors seem interested in fixing: projectors with 3-D filters on the lens for non-3-D films. When you leave the 3-D filter on the lens while showing…
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