“But theaters don’t want to book movies that are day-and-date. It’s meant to sustain an unsustainable advantage of exclusivity for access to films when most people cannot go and buy a ticket and see that movie. Remember, we’re living in an age where everything is at our fingertips, and there are very few things in the world that you still have to do at a certain time and place. I know why I have to be at the airport at 8:00 to be on my flight, but I don’t know why I have to be at the theatre at 8:00 to see the start of my movie.”
Guess The Chief Content Officer
MCN Curated Headlines Archive for May, 2017
“Here’s the thing, I never planned to make this public. I thought it would just be in the family, a private matter, our private sorrow that we would deal with. When it became obvious that I need to take [a] break, I knew there would be narratives created on the internet. They’ll do what they do. The truth is, I’m past caring about that kind of thing now.”
Zack Snyder Steps Down From Justice League After Family Tragedy; Joss Whedon To Complete Film
“Rupert Murdoch had been advised that a condolence call to Ailes’ wife would not be well received.”
No Murdochs At Roger Ailes Funeral, Michael Wolff Tells
“The perils of writing while female: We called his film sexist. He tried to destroy our credibility.”
The Seventh Row Not Taking Any Of Angry, Abusive Male Director’s Shit
“I can never claim to be in a position where I’m having to make decisions with life and death consequences. But I do need to be able to wrangle a gigantic machine.”
David Michôd On “War Machine” And Netflix
Facebook’s Internal Rulebooks And Documents On Sex, Terrorism And Violence Revealed disturbing details
David Bordwell On Ozu’s Fart Jokes 1’56” vid
“I plan to return to the job that I love, which is television, communicating, interviewing people. I have changed in a way that I think will make me better at my job. I believe there will be more people like me in crisis.One thing I learned at The Hoffman Process is that I’ve always relied on my charm and my quick wit and all that, but I’ve kept my depth in the shadows.”
Billy Bush Still Wants The Limelight, Deliriously Softball THR Cover Story Proclaims
“As a longtime Fandor subscriber, I developed a special appreciation for their distinctive programming and recommendation engine. Specifically, the ‘human element’ that sets Fandor apart from so many other services in this space, most of which are purely algorithmic. With my involvement in the broadcasting and social platform business for over five years with my company, VyRT, I’m very much looking forward to this collaboration and know I can bring a unique perspective.”
Jared Leto Assumes Creative Reins Of Fandor Film Streaming Service
“Television, that talking furniture we look to as a cure for loneliness, is not expected to surprise. The odd is downright thrilling. Not to embrace it is to perceive yourself as finished, dead to the New, terminal in the enthusiasms.”
John Leonard‘s Memorable May 7, 1990 NYMag Take On “Twin Peaks”
“We all need to find perspective. We have to keep breathing — in and out — and keep working, keep putting it out there. I mean, what’s the alternative — that we just go under the duvet and don’t come out? It’s befuddling, but it’s life, and it’s evolution rolling on.”
Tilda Swinton Comes Up For Air
“Your instincts are sometimes better than your intellect. Intellectualizing, or pseudo-intellectualizing, can get you in a real box. Film is an emotional art form, not an intellectual art form at all.”
Clint Master-Classes Cannes with vid, audio
“Obfuscation is a balm.”
Kim Morgan On Inherent Vice
“I really think we’re in a media circus. If you’re a politician, people have to know you exist — for that to happen you need to have controversy.”
Ruben Östlund On The Square
“I was naive enough to think that if you exhibit competence in something, the movie makes some money and people are happy, that you move onto something of equal size — or larger. No jobs came to me. Zero. Lost, in every case, to a man.”
Robin Swicord On Not Getting A Second Directing Gig For Ten Years
“In many cases they don’t seem to have bought their books from publishers. No one is quite sure where their books come from, including, it seems, Amazon itself.”
Amazon Changes The Way It Labels Books So That You Can’t Tell If Authors Are Publishers Are Getting A Penny
“The thing I was up against in documentary films—and mine were both primarily character studies—was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I’d come to know before the camera started rolling. And many non-actors can’t do that convincingly, even if they just have to play themselves—they can’t be naturalistic.”
Julia Yepes Gets The Best From Terry Zwigoff
“We’re living amid a generation that has seen every great movie ever made on a phone, so I think we all have to come to grips with where technology takes us. Why would we want to hold back a movie for an enormous number of people to enjoy throughout the entire country that a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people could see the film in Paris? It seemed to me like the right thing to do was to give the people, our subscribers, who pay to make these movies, access to them immediately all over the world.”
Netflix Sarandos Roundtables Journos On Côte d’Azur; Expresses Intent To Debut “Other Side Of The Wind” At Cannes 2018
“Great rom-coms are about something. Sleepless in Seattle is really about grieving and moving on. And When Harry Met Sally is just a great account of two people and their relationship growing over a decade. It’s become a denigrated genre. In the 2000s, they were really churning them out so hard that the quality dropped. It’s like what happened with fantasy films. Studio execs were like, “Lord of the Rings! People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!” No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from successes.”
Kumail Nanjiani On The Funny
