MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2016
THR Finds Oscar Voters To Talk Birth Of A Nation Awards Chances
And – “Alcohol doesn’t rape people. Rapists do. If you are drinking and someone robs you, the robber has still committed a crime.”
Hunting Ground Producer Amy Ziering Weighs In
“It’s so boring when people talk about what they’re going to do, or what they might do, or the thing that they want to do. It’s so much more interesting when you just do it and say, ‘Here it is.'”
Laurie Sandell Cover-Stories Renée Zellweger
Brendan Kelly Comes Out And Says It: Serge Losique Should Shut Down Montreal’s 40-Year-Old Festival Des Films Du Monde
And – Montreal Fest Employees Walk Out En Masse 48 Hours Before Festival Was To Begin
“Another black director who knows Parker, but also requested anonymity, said…”
Ramin Setoodeh Rumors Upon Nate Parker’s Plans
“We are fortunate to have Stacey with us to lead the studio into its next chapter and are confident we will see great success under her headship.”
Stacey Snider Takes Reins At Fox
“The downside is that I have absolutely no life, and my friends think I disappeared off the face of the Earth, because I’m in a goddamn gym every morning.”
Felicity Jones On Rogue One Reshoots
“Gawker wasn’t heroic, and nobody else is either. If you want a one-line valediction, take this: Look at who is celebrating today the hardest, and see if, while it lasted, Gawker didn’t make enemies of all the right assholes.”
Jeb Lund Looks Back With Velocity
“They loom in absence, mismanaged hilariously or murdered by moneymen or killed by time and taste. As with our heroes, we prefer our glorious publications dead. Gawker existed for far longer than anyone deserved. It stayed long enough to win. The moment will come soon enough when you need a Gawker, and you’ll be furious that you no longer have one.”
Former Gawker Editor Choire Sicha