Movie City News Archive for October, 2019
Fuck You Money
first thing my high school journalism teacher advised about working in this industry was to keep a "go to hell" fund for the day your bosses clash with your principles. Thought about using mine more than once, haven't yet. All respect to the Deadspin folks for their bravery today — Wesley (@WesleyLowery) October 30, 2019
Read the full article »High Flying
Watching all this discourse over college athletes being paid makes me want to see “High Flying Bird” be optioned into a series on Netflix so badly. I’d love to see @octarell tackle this. https://t.co/wW5bJpx7yK — Rebecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) October 30, 2019
Read the full article »Demme
watching his films you get the sense that he genuinely loved people, even when they were broken, even when they were damned, even when they were monsters. Strong heart. — Willow Catelyn Maclay (@willow_catelyn) October 28, 2019
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David Lynch’s acceptance speech at the #HonoraryOscars pic.twitter.com/LTsLz8akNC — Amanda (@DuganAmanda) October 29, 2019
Read the full article »Ankler Mojo
Beats me how people are still obsessed with the sheningans in DC when we've just lived through the dismantling of Box Office Mojo — Ankler Rushfield – (@richardrushfield) October 25, 2019
Read the full article »Landmark Theatres Names Paul Serwitz Prez, CEO
[pr] Charles S. Cohen, Owner and Chairman of Landmark Theatres, today announced the appointment of veteran exhibition executive Paul Serwitz as Landmark Theatres’ President and Chief Operating Officer. Paul Serwitz brings his highly regarded reputation to Landmark after serving 17 years as Vice President of Film for Regal Entertainment Group, the national theatre circuit whose brands include Regal Cinemas, Edwards Theaters and…
Read the full article »Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finds its director at the Met
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Finds its Director at the Met
Read the full article »Dan Kois Profiles John Sayles As Matewan Goes Criterion
Dan Kois Profiles John Sayles As Matewan Goes Criterion
Read the full article »Bilge Ebiri On The Insider at 20
Bilge Ebiri On The Insider at 20
Read the full article »View Six “Bespoke” Home Screening Rooms
View Six “Bespoke” Home Screening Rooms from Monaco, Los Angeles, Notting Hill and Britain’s First Home IMAX Joint
Read the full article »Olivia Wilde
First of all, in order to select this movie from hundreds of options, you have to agree to a “parental advisory” that warns you that viewer discretion is advised. Once you click “proceed” it seems like you’ve agreed to watch the movie in its original form. Instead… — olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 30, 2019 —…
Read the full article »Twitter Politlcal Ads
Twitter still has a litany of problems that need to be addressed — including rampant hate speech, coordinated harassment campaigns, and artificial amplification — but credit where credit is due. Banning political advertising is an important step in the right direction. https://t.co/OEVy65pj24 — Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) October 30, 2019
Read the full article »Stealing is Wrong
This is the dumbest, most disingenuous rationale for stealing the intellectual property that it took other people years of time and millions of dollars to make that I've ever seen. And that's saying something. — Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) October 30, 2019
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Lion King, Sisters of Wilderness, My Son, Martin Guerre, Jirga, Horror Guide Part II, Harmonia, Bunuel’s Susana … More
Visually, Favreau admits to being influenced by Julie Taymor’s transcendent stage adaptation of The Lion King. … The things that fooled me, however, were the lifelike appearance, personalities and movement of the hyper-realistic animals.
Read the full article »Fair Pay For Creatives
i used to work for a company owned by something called “ziff davis” (OK boomer!) which is where i first encountered this very confusing equation — Kathryn Jezer-Morton (@KJezerMorton) October 29, 2019
Read the full article »Kanye West Says $68 Million Tax Refund Is God’s Reward for Being a Christian Under Trump
Kanye West Says $68 Million Tax Refund Is God’s Reward for Being a Christian Under Trump
Read the full article »Buress
[spins wheel] [Hannibal Buress] is canceled over [rent control] — Whet Moser (@whet) October 30, 2019 He opened for Chris Rock at the Chicago theatre a couple years ago and had a part about kicking some med students out of the building he just bought on the South Side. — Chris in Chicago: aka Sterling…
Read the full article »“Ultimately, Condé Nast’s fate is up to the Newhouse family. A new generation has taken over since the death of Si, who loved the magazines, the most glamorous delivery devices for cultural power and advertising revenue for much of the 20th century. The question that lingers is how much the Newhouses value these storied brands and are willing to invest in their continual reinvention. “The family can financially withstand years of losses, but they’re also facing the challenge of Why should they?,” a former executive close to them said. “The family doesn’t view themselves through the lens of Condé Nast, and I don’t think they would suddenly wake up tomorrow and say, Who am I? if Condé Nast wasn’t in their lives.”
“Ultimately, Condé Nast’s fate is up to the Newhouse family. A new generation has taken over since the death of Si, who loved the magazines, the most glamorous delivery devices for cultural power and advertising revenue for much of the 20th century. The question that lingers is how much the Newhouses value these storied brands…
Read the full article »Letterman + 10
“You know, the other night I read the piece that you wrote 10 years ago,” David Letterman told me on a rainy day earlier this month. “It took you long enough,” I said. “And I thought, Holy shit, this is so disturbing and, sadly, a perspective that I did not have because the only perspective…
Read the full article »Sleep Sleep
"You could call it fan service, if the service is to teach fans that mimicking Stanley Kubrick’s chilly elegance—and even reshooting scenes from the original film with lookalike actors, a crime bordering on sacrilege—doesn’t make your take nearly as scary." https://t.co/QdCqugNdi9 — Jason Zinoman (@zinoman) October 30, 2019
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