MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2016
“We have a significant opportunity to leverage technology to increase the value of its content and distribution channels. Although this is a different medium than my last technology company, it has the same challenge on how to create the highest value for our content.”
Tribune Publishing Appoints New CEO, Medical Imaging Exec Close To Chairman Ferro; Stakes High For L. A. Times, Chicago Trib, Sun-Times, Baltimore Sun
“Reporters are putting their lives on the front lines here, and if we’re spending the ad revenue on journalism jobs and really expensive premium journalism, if that means you have to have adverts on the page that’s a pretty good value exchange.”
The UK’s Independent Outlines Digital Ambitions After Ceasing Print And Firing Dozens
“He sipped from a bottle of water. Operatives at Fox Searchlight, which released Youth, had told him to hydrate every fifteen minutes.”
Oscar-Nom’d Classical Composer David Young Begins His Hw’d Adventure
“You really can question what’s happening with democracy. There are literally two camps in Turkish society about a lot of things. The question of the place of women is very central in these debates—it’s a choice between two different possible societies.”
Mustang‘s Deniz Gamze Ergüven On The Role Of Her Film In Today’s Turkey
BritCrits Agree To Disagree On Grimsby
“Grimsby has the occasional laugh and a succession of finely wrought grossout spectaculars which are reasonably entertaining. Like a kind of high-voltage defibrillator, these touches do keep the film from flatlining.”
But – “A vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters… The script keeps punching in the right direction–that’s upwards–with a violence and determination. Grimsby’s jokes aren’t at the expense of Nobby, but the people who imagine he really exists: i.e., us. The punchline is that he’s 100% monster, but also 100% human.”
“Some of the deepest planned changes have not met procedural requirements in the group’s bylaws, and have yet to be enacted.”
Michael Cieply Reports Academy Conflict Over New Rules
Canadian Filmmaker Don Owen Was 80; Films Included Nobody Waved Goodbye
With – The NFB Link To Nobody Waved Goodbye
Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe Was 103; 80 Pictures Include Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Dead Of Night, Julia, Rollerball, Lavender Hill Mob
With – “Douglas Slocombe – Behind the Camera” 12’04” vid
“I would not have been proud to have my byline on that story. I recognize the guts it took to dig up and expose the famous writer’s personal spiral, and it is certainly startling he lost that much money. THR profited at the expense of a fundamentally decent, flawed man.”
Mike Fleming & Peter Bart Talk TMZ And Whether THR Should Have Given David Milch Woes So Much Real Estate
John Oliver Assays “Hw’d Whitewashing” 4’31” vid
“It’s a job that I wouldn’t want or seek out. As a creative person I think you should be making stuff. Talking about other people’s stuff is weird. Why aren’t you making stuff? And if you aren’t, why should you really have a voice to complain about things until you’ve walked a mile in someone’s shoes? I don’t get that relationship with art where you can just talk about it but not create it.”
Filmmaker Ben Wheatley On Critics
“You absolutely can make movies. The idea of having a career in the movie business is a very, very different thing.”
John Sayles Looks Back—And Forward
“The whole show swings constantly between artificiality and the deepest, most authentic documentary.”
Filmmaker Stephen Cone Enthuses Over Louis CK’s “Horace & Pete”
“So much depends on Mr. Rock, who is not known for diplomacy.”
Cieply & Barnes Guess About Oscar Show, Piling Up Doubts About Chris Rock’s “Currency”
“The Raleigh police union feels she should be using her celebrity toward finding peaceful resolutions.”
Further Police Unions Join Call For Action Against Beyoncé
