MCN Curated Headlines Archive for November, 2013
“I don’t give a —-. Not ‘I don’t give a —-‘ to just be reckless and do whatever, but ‘I don’t give a —- what they say.’ … I know who I am and what I’m doing in my life and what I’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I’m happy with the man I’m becoming.”
Justin Bieber Takes His Counsel From Will Smith
“Irony is essential to mature human interaction. Forced sincerity does make it seem like delayed adolescence.”
Hal Hartley On Turning To Kickstarter To Finance “Ned Rifle”
“Tough business. That’s all I’m going to say. Tough business. Two words: tough business. Three words. Tough ——- business.”
Spike Lee On Oldboy, Cuts And The Inevitable Double-Dolly Shot
The East Is Bred
China Comes After Filmmaker Zhang Yimou For Reported 7 Children In Violation Of “One Child” Policy
Gibney Returns Fire On Assange
With – The Filmmaker’s Annotations Of His Subject’s Annotations On A Transcript Of We Steal Secrets
“One minute they tell me I’m terminated. Then they tell me I’m not terminated three days later. Now they’re telling me they are initiating arbitration. It’s like, if it’s Tuesday, it must be another development that they backtrack on.”
Nikki Finke Taken To Binding Arbitration By Jay Penske
“You know the young people of this society have not moved in the last 30 years. They have been consumed with telephones. Tweeting. We did it in ’68. Hopefully they will see this film and the next film and the next film and then maybe organise. Stand up.”
Said Donald Sutherland, A Twinkle In His Eye
“We will see nothing back, not a cent.”
“Spider-Man” Tunes Up Epic Losses Of $60 Million For Its B’wy Investors
“Excessive, over-pro-duced, obscenely over-budgeted and utterly pointless.”
Sexy Rexy Opts To Skip Hunger Games In 3D, Not That Either Hunger Games Movie Was Ever In 3D
Cieply And Barnes Fret Over Shifts In Execs At Top Of Studios; Odd Characterizations Include Focus Features Having Made “Highbrow Costume Dramas”
Plus – Fleming’s More Conversant Take On The State Of Play
Prodded By “Activist Investor” Loeb, Sony Entertainment Hires Bain & Co To Identify $100 Million To Slash
But – “The effect of Daniel Loeb is generating results. However, entertainment is a growing area for Sony, and improving the business cannot be all about just cutting costs.”
“For most of his career Loeb has gone after obscure smaller companies, but the $14 billion war chest he has assembled of his and other people’s money in the last few years has inspired him to pursue bigger game—among them Sony, Yahoo, Morgan Stanley, Apple, Disney—and has attracted unwanted attention to his scorched-earth tactics.”
Vanity Fair Has A Bug About “Activist Investor” Dan Loeb
And – VF Imagines His Threat Letter To The Girl Scouts Of America