Movie City News Archive for July, 2019
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BDG postpones Gawker relaunch, lays off entire staff https://t.co/bagUGH7T2k pic.twitter.com/uensCVz3MD — New York Post (@nypost) July 31, 2019
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Prediction: this Bustle strategy of buying dying media properties, while getting lotsa press right now, won’t move the needle for the company and will be abandoned in a year or so. And parent company would be better for it. https://t.co/ycbB75qw8U — Rafat Ali, Media Operator (@rafat) July 31, 2019
Read the full article »“Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile-only streaming video service Quibi is asking media companies and production studios to produce up to twice the amount of content for each episode of the programs they are creating for the platform so that viewers can choose between horizontal and vertical versions of a show. While that increases the workload for these companies, entertainment executives largely are not balking at Quibi’s so-called dual asset demand, though some worry that offering vertical and horizontal versions of videos will overcomplicate the viewing experience and turn off audiences.”
“Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile-only streaming video service Quibi is asking media companies and production studios to produce up to twice the amount of content for each episode of the programs they are creating for the platform so that viewers can choose between horizontal and vertical versions of a show. While that increases the workload for these companies, entertainment…
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I saw ‘Once Upon A Time…’ this past weekend so I could comment intelligently to the press that is asking to speak with me about the portrayal of my Dad in Tarantino’s new film, here are my thoughts:https://t.co/vbk6Uz0hev — Bruce Lee (@brucelee) July 30, 2019
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Damn RIP to the office where I interned in 2010 https://t.co/SysP9vdgt8 — Dan Schindel (@DanSchindel) July 30, 2019
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I don’t say this in pursuit of gainsaying Shannon Lee, but I didn’t see Bruce/Cliff bout, which ends in a draw, as belittling to Lee (who’s shown as kind and considerate when coaching Tate). Just a shit-talking episode between bored idle fight performers that got out of hand. — Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) July 30, 2019
Read the full article »“Leitch’s gift for inventive hand-to-hand brawling and weapon skirmishes is once again on full display in his steroidal buddy comedy. Yet what distinguishes it from the genre pack is the director’s deft ability to meld his distinctive style with the over-the-top cartoonishness of its Fast & Furious predecessors.”
“Leitch’s gift for inventive hand-to-hand brawling and weapon skirmishes is once again on full display in his steroidal buddy comedy. Yet what distinguishes it from the genre pack is the director’s deft ability to meld his distinctive style with the over-the-top cartoonishness of its Fast & Furious predecessors.”
Read the full article »Record-breaking Opening Weekend of ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD on 70mm at the Music Box Theatre
[pr] JULY 30, 2019 (Chicago) — As one of five theaters in North America screening Sony Pictures’ ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD on 70mm, the Music Box Theatre saw its three-day (July 26–28) weekend estimated grosses top $122,000 – the venue earning the second-highest per-screen average in the country, the highest gross in Chicago…
Read the full article »Seinfeld Hates Goldthwaite?
“I don’t like him. At all,” Jerry Seinfeld says of Bobcat Goldthwaite. “I had kind of forgotten about him and then there was a little article about him in the paper and even in that there was a veiled reference to his dislike of what I did. It didn’t have my name, of course. He used…
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How Hiram Garcia Keeps The Rock’s Blockbuster Movies on Track https://t.co/j6iXGbuSrx pic.twitter.com/tDS886EfrJ — Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) July 30, 2019
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#HBD, Richard Linklater! “More than most filmmakers, Linklater takes quite literally Andrei Tarkovsky’s concept of cinema as sculpting in time.” Dennis Lim: https://t.co/7VmZsF4XpD pic.twitter.com/TdGeKdeaPC — The Daily (@CriterionDaily) July 30, 2019
Read the full article »HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HONOR FILMMAKER GUILLERMO DEL TORO WITH STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
WHO: Honoree: Guillermo del Toro Emcee: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO Rana Ghadban Guest Speakers: Director J.J. Abrams and singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey WHAT: Dedication of the 2,669th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Category of Motion Pictures WHERE: 6918 Hollywood Boulevard in front of The Line Store WHEN: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 11:30 A.M. PST…
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Brad PItt and his partners in Plan B have exceptional taste. Even more important? THEY GET FILMS MADE. https://t.co/Kjc5GLNbJj — Ray Pride (@RayPride) July 30, 2019
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R.I.P. Jack Davis, illustrator for MAD magazine and Tales From The Crypt https://t.co/Y3kdl4Vsv1 — Malice Intended (@Renaissance1977) July 29, 2019
Read the full article »“More than a year after imposing a controversial four month “test” embargo on new release e-books in libraries from its Tor imprint, Macmillan announced that it will impose a two-month embargo on library e-books across all of the company’s imprints.”
“More than a year after imposing a controversial four month “test” embargo on new release e-books in libraries from its Tor imprint, Macmillan announced that it will impose a two-month embargo on library e-books across all of the company’s imprints.”
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Scorsese's #TheIrishman to premiere at New York Film Fest https://t.co/z6LDWlAZ7W @netflix @filmlinc — Thelma Adams (@thelmadams) July 29, 2019
Read the full article »Award Winners of 2019 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival
OUTFEST LOS ANGELES LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2019 AWARD WINNERS Los Angeles, July 29, 2019 – Outfest – the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization promoting equality by creating, sharing, and protecting LGBTQ stories on the screen – has announced the award winners of its 2019 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, presented by HBO. The nation’s…
Read the full article »Kyoto murders
#KyotoAnimation arson attack: Death toll rises to 35, reports that the attack was carefully planned https://t.co/KmVBWoC7vO #KyoAni pic.twitter.com/jTTz33cS6z — THR International (@THRGlobal) July 29, 2019
Read the full article »Garlic les Blank
"Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers" Looking just at the titles of Les Blank's filmography, one sees the America one wants to live in. RIP. — Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) April 7, 2013
Read the full article »How Yesterday Became The Hit Of Today
How Yesterday Became The Hit Of Today “You’ll never get the fucking rights for that. It’s not an obvious one – it would either work well or wouldn’t work at all. Three things needed to happen for Richard Curtis to write it: the historic side with the previous writers needed to be sorted out in an…
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