MCN Curated Headlines Archive for April, 2017

“Owning Sky outright would give the Murdochs an important new cash generator to feed the rapacious appetite for growth and conquest that has made their family business the most influential media conglomerate in the world — one that helped hasten Britain’s ‘Brexit’ from the European Union and helped deliver Donald J. Trump to the White House.”
Murdoch British TV Deal Hinges On The Three Words “Fit And Proper”
“When you see a big thing in the sky, run for it, because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
Sir Ridley Says It Will Be Unwise To Challenge Incoming Aliens

“The first Godfather cost $6.5 million, the second Godfather cost $11-12 million, which if you convert that, it would take a major studio. But it would never get through the process of getting a greenlight. Nothing will get a greenlight today unless it’s a movie where they can have a whole series and a Marvel comics type of thing.”
Coppola & Co. At Radio City Music Hall
“There is no denying that much of the new Canadian film Below Her Mouth qualifies as unmitigated smut.”
Lede Of The Weekend
“Demme was also blessed by a larger liberalism: the imaginative outreach, hard to discern in the rampant studio movies of today, which assumes that everybody is worth stopping for—that there will always be folks who repay the camera’s attention. What he radiated, before or behind the lens, was an unstinting curiosity, and a faith that the most reliable map of character was the human face.”
Anthony Lane On Jonathan Demme

“Let’s just do it and be legends.”
Testimony From A Woman Who Escaped The Oncoming Conflagration Of The Fyre Festival
“It was 1969, I was only three, and as Dad stood at the back of the crowd, watching the bidding, he seemed to escape his body and floated up to the ceiling from where he watched for a while longer before slipping back into his body again. Only then did he realize one of the bidders was him. He’d bought the property without knowing that was his intention when he walked in. He describes it a surreal moment in his life when he didn’t know he was moving to Ireland at all.”
Charley Boorman Has Tales To Tell
“With the death of Demme, American cinema loses one of its greatest humanists. His work didn’t simply glow with a generosity of spirit. You got the sense that he understood people — that he understood us. He was a kind of secret-sharer, a creator of cinematic worlds where anything was possible and anything could be said.”
Bilge Ebiri‘s Swell Reminiscence Of Jonathan Demme

“To get younger audiences interested in the actual news, you have to play that up. Half of what I do — well, on social media specifically — is fucking with people.”
Words From The Internet “Troll” With The White House Press Credentials