MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2013
XOJane Sez The “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” Will Be With Us For A While
Earlier – Laurie Penny’s “I Was A Manic Pixie Dream Girl”
“I don’t want to be bothered with deepening my connection to you as an artist. I don’t want to see you expand your story world, and I don’t want to engage more deeply with your story. I just want to be entertained. That’s all the pay-off I need.”
Brian Newman Ain’t Buying The “Transmedia” Runaway Train
“It will be the official Twitter account for Rogerebert.com, where we will tweet about movies and movie reviews, television and cable programs, interesting theaters and mobile devices, topical stories, books, politics, speaking engagements and anything that our editors and group of writers find interesting.”
Chaz Launches Non-Roger Ebert.Com Twitter
Glenn Kenny On The “Splendid” New Orson Welles Book That Wasn’t Plucked From Henry Jaglom’s Man-Bag By Peter Biskind
And – Jonnie Rosenbaum Concurs

“So this woman at that festival makes this crack about the film saying it’s cold and dead at the center. So I said to Bret, ‘What did she expect?’ Bret and I made this film, and we damn well know it’s cold in the center. That’s what it was designed to be. I personally think this film is more Bret than me. Bret thinks it’s more me than him. That’s perhaps the definition of good collaboration.”
Paul Schrader Before FilmLinc Preem Of The Canyons

“Despite its surface similarities to the pack, Elysium indeed works hard to veer into more creative terrain, starting with the fact that it aims to make audiences think.”
Barnes Promotes Grand Unified Theory Of Sony’s Summer Films; Leaves A Penultimate Paragraph Dis To The Usual Unnamed “Box Office Analysts”
“It was a great experience to perform, wearing Google Glass, in front of a sold-out crowd of 55,000. Glass and wearable-technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future. This is relatively uncharted territory for the quick-moving developer community and I am excited to see what is created.”
Bon Jovi Have Spoken
What Else Can Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Producer James M. Johnston Do? Run Vegan Restos, Direct… (12’54”)
Rogue Investor Dan Loeb Ruffles Sony
“A difficult and, by most accounts, unpleasant and meddlesome man.”
As Well As – Yahoo!