Movie City News Archive for May, 2019
Cassian
Cannes is in total disrepair. Business is flat and most of the films screening here are irrelevant in the us marketplace. Both sides ,marche and festival, need to realize they are codependent and figure out a solution and quick. Keeping the streamers out is self-defeating — cassian elwes (@cassianelwes) May 18, 2019
Read the full article »“We have what we call ‘fake left’ politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him,” said Ken Loach. “Blair we don’t even mention. They talked about this mythical beast, ‘caring capitalism’. Everyone talks about it but no one ever sees it. If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work.”
“We have what we call ‘fake left’ politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him,” said Ken Loach. “Blair we don’t even mention. They talked about this mythical beast, ‘caring capitalism’. Everyone talks about it but no one ever sees it. If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the…
Read the full article »Cast Bruited For Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Peckinpah: Fassbinder, Foxx, Dinklage
Cast Bruited For Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Peckinpah: Fassbinder, Foxx, Dinklage
Read the full article »Traffic For Websites Piggybacking “Game of Thrones” Expected To Crash And Burn
Traffic For Websites Piggybacking “Game of Thrones” Expected To Crash And Burn Bracing for next week’s great media apocalypse when the GoT content wells suddenly go dry all at once. Everyone saw it coming for years and yet nobody prepared. — Mark Lisanti (@marklisanti) May 15, 2019
Read the full article »InfoWars Goes To Trial To Claim Rights To Matt Furie’s “Pepe The Frog”
“Plaintiff points to other public statements where he reaffirmed his ownership over Pepe the Frog, suggesting no intent to abandon the character. The dispute is therefore more appropriately left to the jury rather than determined by the Court on summary judgment.” InfoWars Taken To Trial Over Rights To Matt Furie’s Copyrighted Character “Pepe The Frog”
Read the full article »Kim Morgan on Sofia
“Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl.” My piece on Sofia Coppola’s haunting, beautiful, poetic and enigmatic The Virgin Suicides, playing tonight and tomorrow @newbeverly : https://t.co/Sa5MJzEJV2 pic.twitter.com/f3RQXvmPXt — Kim Morgan (@SunsetGunShot) May 17, 2019
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Knopf has fired a longtime editor, Gary Fisketjon, over what it called a breach of company policy https://t.co/2PIMbUNHlc — New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »Miracle Mile at Thirty
Miracle Mile at Thirty
Read the full article »Keanu recommends Richard powers
Q: What are some books you can recommend? Keanu Reeves: I'm gonna pick a book that I read recently. OVERSTORY by Richard Powers. Check that book out. https://t.co/0L2l8vTq4o#FridayReads https://t.co/Oumx6dANRG — W. W. Norton & Company (@wwnorton) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »Woke Netflix voice
Woke Netflix Voice gives me the creeps. https://t.co/6uZyCE4Kv1 — Dave Kehr (@dave_kehr) May 17, 2019
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#AvengersEndgame finished its 3rd full week at the domestic #boxoffice with $741,394,870. Will break $750M tonight or tomorrow and then by SUN it will surpass #Avatar to become #2 domestic blockbuster of all-time. — Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »Wouk
RIP Herman Wouk, who (among much else) created Captain Queeg. https://t.co/Du39KkNiNB https://t.co/Oer3BtrsX0 — Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »“Abigail Disney tells Congress companies must change the way they ‘practice capitalism'”
“Abigail Disney tells Congress companies must change the way they ‘practice capitalism’”
Read the full article »Pattinson rockin
pic.twitter.com/KxqaOH1GXm — josh lewis (@thejoshl) May 17, 2019
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Gannett journalists will most likely sigh with relief that a takeover move was thwarted, given MediaNews’s track record of slashing costs and reducing the head counts in newsrooms https://t.co/FRaqXuupzS pic.twitter.com/vmPZ0dMPa6 — NYT Media (@nytmedia) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »Ptaz
This feels like one of those things where a studio floats the name of someone who isn't getting the gig in Deadline in the hope of goosing the actor to whom they've made the offer into signing the deal. — Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »Pattinson
Robert Pattinson to Play ‘The Batman’ for Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/AlyOV2pXn5 pic.twitter.com/jg9Esbni6D — Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »Bateman Georgia
Jason Bateman, who works on two shows currently filming in Georgia, said he will not work in a state "that is so disgracefully at odds with women's rights" if the new six-week abortion ban survives court challenges. https://t.co/sO7wsCmO8Y — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 17, 2019
Read the full article »I M Pei
Breaking News: One of the world's revered architects, I.M. Pei, has died at 102. The glass pyramid at the Louvre was among his many famous designs. https://t.co/A2V6Bhgi94 — The New York Times (@nytimes) May 16, 2019
Read the full article »“If you’re caught with a pen while Louis C.K. is on stage in Nashville, you’d better be signing your bill. Those who were quick enough to get tickets to his six sold-out shows at Zanies were hit with a legal notice from C.K. on the venue’s website and another verbal warning before he took the stage. Not only are phones and cameras banned, but audience members aren’t allowed to write anything down. You’ll be kicked out if you break the rules — and possibly sued.”
“If you’re caught with a pen while Louis C.K. is on stage in Nashville, you’d better be signing your bill. Those who were quick enough to get tickets to his six sold-out shows at Zanies were hit with a legal notice from C.K. on the venue’s website and another verbal warning before he took the stage. Not…
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