MCN Curated Headlines Archive for September, 2016
“It ignores the conclusions reached by every official investigation: that the accident was the result of multiple errors made by a number of companies.”
BP Pans Deepwater Horizon

STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET ON
Lee Daniels Planning Musical Of His Life, Inspired By 8 1/2 And All That Jazz

“Some ad guru told me once the two magic words in a company name are ‘New’ and ‘Free.’ ‘’Free’ has got nothing to do with how I want to do my films, so I went with ‘New.'”
Visiting Productive Roger Corman At 90

“I was falsely accused… I went to court…I was vindicated. I feel terrible that this woman isn’t here…her family had to deal with that, but as I sit here, an apology is – no. Nat Turner, as a hero, what he did in history, is bigger than me. It’s bigger than all of us.”
Nate Parker On “60 Minutes”
And – Sharon Loeffler Talks About Her Sister
“I feel like I’m surfing, and we’re just in this really flowy state of play. It is called filmmaking because we have a camera there, but it feels a lot more like street theatre, improv, theater games… It’s just so much fun for me. It’s my favorite thing.”
When Chandler Levack Met Jill Soloway
“Nowadays, people are talking about it more. Things either call for things, or they don’t. I remember back when I was a child watching ‘The Brady Bunch’ and they started to get all politically correct, like, OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black — I used to get more offended by that than just — I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies.”
Tim Burton On Casting Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

“This capital increase will enhance EuropaCorp’s ability to produce and distribute English-language films and TV series around the world. We are delighted to further strengthen our close links with Fundamental Films and the booming Chinese market.”
EuropaCorp Sells 28% Stake To China’s Fundamental Films
“The notion that we’re getting an intimate look at something usually kept behind closed doors is connected to one of Schrader’s greatest strengths, which is his comprehensive sense of research.”
As Paul Schrader Gets Retro’ed In L.A., Jim Hemphill Weighs In On American Gigolo
“An exciting opportunity to be at the heart of the future of documentaries and how they are created”
Nick Fraser, Veteran Editor Of Storyville Doc Series, Leaving BBC After 17 Years And 340 Films, To Co-Found Streaming Doc Service
And – “Good docs appear to wrest a degree of coherence from the contingent mess of life”