Movie City News Archive for June, 2019
Sundance’s John Cooper Stepping Down
Sundance’s John Cooper Stepping Down After 2020 Fest
Read the full article »Writing magazine features to sell IP
The increasingly blurry line between journalism and IP-creation seems like something we should all be talking about more. For instance, how magazines are increasingly propping themselves up by marketing/selling their content to Hollywood. https://t.co/3PgDdrVevW — Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) June 27, 2019
Read the full article »His love ski
On his birthday, we're remembering the Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski, who translated the mysteries of everyday life into incandescent, richly cinematic reveries with a mix of rigorous philosophical inquiry and operatic emotion. https://t.co/lDkSjFbmws pic.twitter.com/aszhnjHAr5 — Criterion Collection (@Criterion) June 27, 2019
Read the full article »Mixtape legacy
“Like an even more precarious version of the Universal vault, the for-profit servers that host these primary documents of hip-hop culture can vanish in an instant." Who will save the mixtapes? https://t.co/lQu8x7XN5b pic.twitter.com/lCcjXs2Dea — WFMU (@WFMU) June 27, 2019
Read the full article »Drago
Il avait ce qu'on appelle la gueule de l'emploi : rendu célèbre par le rôle de Frank Nitti dans "Les Incorruptibles", Billy Drago est décédé à 73 ans. #RIP #BillyDrago pic.twitter.com/et4En7uxJF — TCM Cinéma (@TCM_Cinema) June 27, 2019
Read the full article »Bye Bing
Tomorrow @LACMA, our LAST screening ever in the Bing Theater will be Ozu's final film, AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON. As both a send-off of the theater and a celebration of FILM at LACMA's legacy there, we hope to see you one last time at the Bing! https://t.co/IgZUr1bT6H pic.twitter.com/XQsHTGJb09 — Adam Piron (@adam_piron) June 27, 2019
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Billy Drago Dead: 'Untouchables' Actor Dies at 73. Billy played John Bly, a great bad guy on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He was sinister and understated on screen, sweet and humble off screen. Safe travels, fellow thespian. Well played! https://t.co/XJ7SiCcnk2 — Bruce Campbell (@GroovyBruce) June 27, 2019
Read the full article »UMG Inferno
Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire – https://t.co/HD4x9qcPJx <- It’s like the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria. Irreplaceable originals (and we’ll never know what other treasures) lost, though copies of many highlights survive. — (((The Other David Cohen))) (@David_S_Cohen) June 25, 2019
Read the full article »Netflix Loses “The Office”
This just in: As we kind of expected, NBCU will take back the exclusive domestic streaming rights for #TheOffice for its new streaming service, starting in 2021 and for five years. It's currently believed to be one of, if not the, most-watched shows on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/JPhZqgqUvS — Michael Schneider (@franklinavenue) June 25, 2019
Read the full article »Brit Ann Sarnoff New Warner CEO
Brit Ann Sarnoff New Warner CEO
Read the full article »“Thr expectations of the world-devouring $200 million was what was in the box-office writers’ heads. So when they saw it coming in 40% below that outrageous estimate, the fire alarms went off. But they can’t say that, because they aren’t supposed to be basing their reporting on the NRG numbers that no one dares speak aloud. So it’s a dud based on the guidance. “Well below studio predictions of $140 million to $150 million,” is how the LAT put it.”
“Thr expectations of the world-devouring $200 million was what was in the box-office writers’ heads. So when they saw it coming in 40% below that outrageous estimate, the fire alarms went off. But they can’t say that, because they aren’t supposed to be basing their reporting on the NRG numbers that no one dares speak…
Read the full article »Village Elder Joel Silver Out At Silver Pictures
Village Elder Joel Silver Out At Silver Pictures
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Amazon Studios marketing and distribution chief Bob Berney departinghttps://t.co/6vY2bVfFud — Screen International (@Screendaily) June 25, 2019
Read the full article »Dunleavy foot
“There was the night a blizzard buried Manhattan and Dunleavy, “reclining” with a young woman in a snowdrift outside Elaine’s, and had his foot run over by a snowplow. Snarled Pete Hamill of the Daily News, ‘I hope it was his writing foot.’”
Read the full article »Dunleavy
Tabloid legend Steve Dunleavy dead at 81, family confirms https://t.co/DgJ6N3GPvZ — larry mcshane (@lmcshanenydn) June 25, 2019 The legendary @nypost reporter Steve Dunleavy dead at 81. Some of my favorite classic photos of him from 2006 at Langans. #RIPDunleavy https://t.co/Y7ThgMyXFx pic.twitter.com/8B48AxsAIU — Zach Kouwe (@zkouwe) June 25, 2019 Whenever I think of Steve Dunleavy, I…
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Goodbye, Steve Dunleavy Ignore the official obituaries, and read this 2008 Gawker article on the Australian New York Post journo, if you want at least a bit of reality. https://t.co/pgarWHwBmz #ausmedia also, this on the man he campaigned to have released https://t.co/tCFxzIS1GO — Leroy (@Leroy_Lynch) June 25, 2019
Read the full article »Streaming
I’ve told the people who have no physical media – especially the ones who don’t live in an area with good art or revival houses – that they will eventually be at the mercy of what corporations think they want, but the response is ¯_(ツ)_/¯. — Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren) June 24, 2019
Read the full article »Endeavor
This is a must read about the smoke and mirrors that is the Endeavor IPO. $7bn in liabilities… annually running in the red… with my former independent analyst hat on, I’d have advised investors to run a mile. https://t.co/JJTn3R9r5a — Arash Amel (@arashamel) June 23, 2019
Read the full article »A Sunday Peter Bart Column by Any Other Byline
“I recently came down with an acute case of movie-world-itis — call it ‘franchise fatigue’ fatigue. The symptoms are as follows. It’s blockbuster movie season (otherwise known as: any given week of the year), and a handful of sequels, reboots, and tentpole-smash wannabes have all come out and performed badly. The media predictions of weekend grosses…
Read the full article »Google Scrapes genius
Amazing video. Google was scraping Genius’ content and showing it to users without sending them to Genius. Google denied it. Genius proved it by embedding a hidden message in the apostrophes of their text. Applied steganography for plagiarism detection!https://t.co/mu1oqE2mO6 — Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) June 16, 2019
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