MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2016

Liv Tyler Turns Designer, Drawing From Her Own Closet And Amelia Earhart

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“This place is going to be formidable. I know our company has been in the news quite a bit lately, mostly not for movies and television. I believe there is great reason to be optimistic about our next chapter.”
Cieply & Fleming Start Series On Brad Grey And Paramount

“Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer And He Still Has His Job At Apple”

hollywoodreporter.com

Wayman Wong Says Asian Performers Shouldn’t Be Overlooked For Oscar, Either

Chicago In’tl Names Audience Awards

Sun Valley Film Fest Goes Deep On Film Funding And Mentorship

STX Entertainment To Co-Produce Short Content

NY Times

“Vertigo is not Hitchcock’s best, but rather, with its lush morbidity, somnolent pace, poor box office and relative scarcity of jokes, the Hitchcock film for those who most wish he were French. “
Tom Shone On Peter Ackroyd’s Life Of Hitchcock

“American Beauty as scripted by Beavis and Butthead.”
Ben Child Reappraises The Filmic Career Of Dr. Uwe Boll, Who Has Said He’s Going To Stick To Bauhaus, His Vancouver Restaurant

Pornhub Wants To Buy Vine

“The viewing habits of TV watchers are changing, and they are consuming media coming in through social networks and platforms. Content creation is more decentralized and content consumption is more decentralized. AT&T’s approach is based on an old model.”
Cautions Against The Latest Time Warner Merger

Harvard Business Review On Printing Fewer And Fewer Issues

Lawyers Say Cosby Registered As Legally Blind; Cannot Recognize Accusers

Vancouver Sun Leaving Downtown As Postmedia Cuts Accelerate

NY Times

Nate Parker Surfaces In Investigation Of Penn State; Lawyer Says Claim Untrue

Media Pharoah Follies: Banks Yank Bucks From Gannett tronc™ Buy

variety

“Team Downey” Assembles “Writers’ Room” To Pound Out  More Sherlock Holmes

“I became fed up with the ubiquity of the film’s tropes, the endless quotation and recycling, and started seeing its flaws again, particularly Kubrick’s contempt for his characters and his cruelty to women and the underlying sense of an A-list director slumming it in a genre he essentially despises.”
Anne Bilson Takes A Poke At The Shining

Blaming Coke And Pepsi For The Advent Of Modern Product Placement

“You used the ballot as an anger management tool — and now you’re f—ed,” Moore says. “You wanted to send a message. You had righteous anger. And justifiable anger. Well, message sent. Goodnight America. You’ve just elected the last president of the United States.”
Trump Camp Selectively Edits Michael Moore In TrumpLand As Endorsement

NY Times

Glenn Kenny On The Restoration Of Night Of The Living Dead, As Well As Its Copyright

“He’s got gold teeth and muscles on his muscles. He looks like a thug who’s stepped out of a thousand other movies, the kind of one-dimensional character who exists only as a punch line or bogeyman. Suddenly, Moonlight feels like a rebuke to every script that doesn’t see the humanity in a young black man. And it’s not only our films. It’s every politician and cop, and if audiences are brave enough to hear it, maybe ourselves, too.”
Amy Nicholson Characterizes Moonlight

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“Esthetically, the code doesn’t switch in Moonlight.”
Barry Jenkins On Finding His Voice And “Code-Switching” With Peter Howell

indie wire

George A. Romero Says “The Walking Dead” Basically Slaughtered Any More “Living Dead” Pics

“It was an unfortunate incident. I was loaded and angry and arrested. I was recorded illegally by an unscrupulous police officer who was never prosecuted for that crime. And then it was made public by him for profit, and by members of — we’ll call it the press. So, not fair. I guess as who I am, I’m not allowed to have a nervous breakdown, ever. For one episode in the back of a police car on eight double tequilas to dictate all the work, life’s work, and beliefs, and everything else that I have and maintain for my life is really unfair.”
Mel Gibson Says It’s Time For People To Move On

DP Tom Krueger On Shooting Iggy Pop For Jim Jarmusch’s Gimme Danger

“It will no longer have to endure customers and their ridiculous complaints about the lack of air conditioning or heat or toilet stall doors.”
Matt Singer Recollects Brooklyn’s Now-Shuttered The Pavilion (Soon To Become A New Nitehawk Cinema)

Twitter To Chop Withered Vine Mobile App

“I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing a screenplay, directing, editing, acting, you just name it. I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.”
Guess The Los Angeles-Based Director

hollywoodreporter.com

LAPD Dragnet Finds Man Who Jackhammered Trump Star On Hw’d Walk Of Fame 

Before His Live Halloween Shows, John Carpenter Talks About His Lost Themes And His Soundtracks

The “82 Commandments” Of Alejandro Jodorowsky

hollywoodreporter.com

Pixar Swaps Release Dates On Incredibles 2 And Toy Story 4

variety

Weinstein And Amazon Pick Up Matt Weiner Series

“The Rise Of The Modern Female Horror Filmmaker”

NY Times

“The Meaning Of Bob Dylan’s Silence”

Dennis Cooper Anthologizes Writing And Images On Hong Kong Master Johnnie To

Matthew Garrahan Analyzes Seven Years Of Comcast-NBCUniversal Integration As Prequel To AT&T-Time Warner Dreadnought

Report: Viacom About To Get Third CEO In Three Months

Tennessean Among Newsrooms Shaved In Anticipation Of Gannett Buying Out Tronc™

Robert Rodriguez Releases His Own Get Out the Vote PSA

Could Apple Back Down On Its Ridiculous New Airpod Earbuds?

LA Times

China Box-Office Falters In Summer Slump

“I think in some ways, a kiss is even more intimate than —-ing.”
Kyle Buchanan Asks Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins About Onscreen Kissing Between Men

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“I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.”

“I am inclined to aver that every activity needs its critics, from narcissists bloviating in Washington to exhibitors of knee holes in their blue jeans by way of following a fad. So, too, tennis players and others wearing their caps backward. There is, to be sure, only fairly innocuous folly in puncturing pants or reversing caps, but for political or artistic or religious twisting of thought or harboring holes in the head there is rather less excuse. I have always inveighed against the bleary journalism practiced by newspaper reviewers, as opposed to the real criticism performed by, well, critics.”

“I often felt a twinge of grief at the idea that John Simon had devoted his life to a method of work that could only make him increasingly unhappy. Here was a man, elegant, articulate, and vastly knowledgeable, fluent in at least half a dozen languages, whose gifts of mind gave nothing back to the arts he wrote about except a few unkind remarks that made fun of someone’s performance, ethnicity, physical attributes, or, with a pun, on his target’s name. (“If this is Norman Wisdom, I’ll take Saxon folly.”) Other theatre critics keep such darts in their rucksacks for occasional use; John lived by them.”

“One person’s critic is another person’s crackpot. That they are not united in their opinions is ascribable to the Latin saying: quot homines, tot sententiae. I myself prefer being considered a creep, but that is what you get for having what Vladimir Nabokov called ‘Strong Opinions.’ It is odd that in a country so wallowing in negativity, starting with mass shootings and climaxing with Trump, such an unimportant matter as theater criticism should generate so much hostility. The only target patently more important is lead in the drinking water.”

The DVD Wrapup: Cold War, Betty Blue, Official Secrets, Demons, Olivia, American Dreamer, Land of Yik Yak

E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters

Rome Bookstore Closes

With a Grauniad-Alleged $300 Million Budget, Could The Yet-Unseen But Surely Weird Cats Pass A Billion Dollars at The Box Office?

WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon