Jordan Peele Knows He’s Not Ready To Direct A Tentpole

Apple Set To Slash Cash Paid For Streaming Music

“Is it fair to criticize Coppola for excluding slavery from this narrative? If anything, Coppola is guiltier of self-preservation than cultural erasure. Coppola has been our foremost raconteuse of Caucasian stories, from Marie Antoinette to Lost in Translation to Virgin Suicides. There are plenty of people who could tackle a black female slave’s inclusion in a story like The Beguiled, but Coppola is the last person you should ever want it from.”

“People want to see a world that looks like theirs.”
CAA Study: Diverse Casts Rake More Cash

Bill Cosby Comedy Revival Begins With His Town Hall Presentation On How To Avoid Sexual Assault Charges

Kino Lorber And Zeitgeist Films Align; KL To Distribute ZF Library 

“Outside the silos, there has been a big waste of money on projects that don’t make sense. They’re not going to make a movie like The Judge with Robert Downey Jr. for $60 million. For $35 million — maybe.”
What Will Warner Under Emmerich (And AT&T) Look Like?

Director Of Grand Theft Auto And Da Vinci Code Takes On Star Wars Spinoff

A Little About The DGA And Replacing Fired Directors

Wanda Wobbling? How Might The Ripples Be Felt In H’wd?

“From the beginning of cinema, models of production and distribution have changed almost every 10 years. I mean, filmmakers thought the end of the world was happening when sound was invented because there had been this whole silent movie thing, which made a lot of people millionaires and certainly famous. And then sound came along and this whole silent thing just fell off the edge of the earth.”
Hal Hartley Accepts Change

Baby Driver Zooms Censors In Chase-Happy China

“I really hate it. Being the producer is just not interesting. Being a director of a movie would be fun, being a writer on a movie would be fun, being an actor, being an editor. When you’re the producer, you’re herding people to do stuff. You’re organizing money. You’re dealing with people’s feelings. It’s a horrible job! I don’t understand why Scott Rudin would want to have that job. It seems like an awful job. God bless him for doing it.”
Ira Glass Hates Producing Movies

“This is an exciting time for cinemas and their business partners all around the world as the industry enters a new era of global collaboration and ongoing innovation.”
Distrib Bigs Launch Worldwide Industry Body

“There are only six companies that comprise all the elements of a major studio, and this is one of them. You want to see it achieve its full potential. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be more successful than it’s been recently.”
THR Cover-Stories Jim Gianopulos And The New Paramount

“All of this — the money, the dissatisfied and reduced staff, the failure to compete — puts Guardian US on the verge of being a flameout as a US-based news operation, reduced to a glorified foreign bureau for the UK paper.”
“How The Grauniad Lost America”

“The bald truth is that no one cares about a high-quality literary journal, just as they don’t care about high-quality writing.”

“Around November 2013, everything changed. Facebook introduced alterations to the algorithm that controls your news feed on the site. Those changes threw Upworthy off a cliff. Upworthy CEO Eli Pariser speaks of the precipitous drop in muted tones. He never says he is mad at Facebook. That would be like being mad at the weather, he says.”

“The world of digital advertising is a nightmarish joke. Mark Zuckerberg’s first post about fake news, Facebook managed to serve an ad for fake news next to it. It’s a joke. It’s out of control. There are all sorts of creepy, borderline fraudulent middlemen, this thicket of strange companies, tracking pixels on everything. You couldn’t think of a more dangerous environment for a brand.”
NYT CEO Has Words

“Her own story, the way she tells it, repeatedly returns to adolescence, those years which were abruptly taken from her, which she continuously reclaims on screen. To Coppola, womanhood is imprisonment, girlhood is freedom, and her feminism lies in her refusal to compromise the latter. She will not, for instance, adopt the ‘feminist’ label, despite her constant devotion— albeit a devotion that is blind to intersectionality—to female identity.”
Soraya Roberts On The Notion Of Sofia Coppola

“You could parse Coppola’s erasure of blackness as a writer and director any number of ways. The Beguiled certainly whitewashes the novel, denies a possible role to an actress of color, contributes to the racial absolution of white women’s role in upholding slavery, and glamorizes what Coppola calls the ‘super-feminine, lacy worlds’ of antebellum femininity. This is not the first time the director has simplified a story by excising its racial implications.”
Inkoo Kang Does Not Care For Coppola At All

Jon Caramanica On The Innovations Of Rapper Prodigy, Who Was 42

“Drabinsky’s counsel had argued that he has unique and valuable talents as a creative producer that the entertainment industry can benefit from.”
Disgraced Canuck Producer-Impresario Garth Drabinsky Barred From Company Directorships After Half-Billion Dollar Fraud

Bob Iger, Reed Hastings & Ted Sarandos, Steve Burke, Les Moonves, The Murdochs, Shari Redstone & Bob Bakish, Jeff Bewkes, Alan Horne, Oprah, Peter Rice…
Reporter Anoints Its 100 Top Figures In Entertainment

British Gov’t Still Considering Ramifications Of NewsCorp’s Intended $14.1 Million Buy Of Remainder Of Sky Over Impartiality And Concentration

“Kathy, her team and Larry Kasdan have been doing it their way for a very long time. They know how the cheese is made and that’s how they want it made,” said the source. “It became a very polarizing set.”

Lucasfilm Fires Lord & Miller From Han Solo Spinoff

“We normally aren’t fans of the phrase ‘creative differences’ but for once this cliché is true. We are really proud of the amazing and world-class work of our cast and crew.”
Kathleen Kennedy And Lord&Miller’s Comments Via Star Wars Website

“Solace came in nightly, and soon light-of-daily, visits to Tosca, an Art Deco drinking landmark that became a second home. As befitting the place’s diva-inspired name, its jukebox played only opera. Pretty soon, Wenders was listening again and again to one 45: the aching aria of the lovelorn fisherman Nadir, from Bizet’s little-performed ‘Les Pêcheurs de Perles.'”
Wim Wenders Directing His First Opera At Age Of 71

“When you’re a film composer, part of the gig is you’re giving the director and the producers the music they want. But at the end of the day, if they don’t like it, it’s not in the movie.”

“I hate when it leads them to write a whole thing where they’re saying ‘Kumail doesn’t see brown women as real people.’ First of all, you don’t have to watch the movie, but you can’t have an opinion on it and express it with confidently without seeing it. That’s fine, don’t see it, but then you don’t get to say that this is the political agenda of the movie.”

Sue Halpern On Risk And “The Nihilism Of Julian Assange”

John Wick Origins Get Comic Series

Jeff Dowd And Alex Noh Launch Blood Sweat Honey, A Distribution-Marketing Consultancy

“Making a movie about someone who’s cut off and out to lunch doesn’t make me out to lunch.”
Stephanie Zacharek Meets Up With Sofia Coppola

“Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject.”

“I don’t see ‘everything’ anymore and I haven’t been to Cannes since 2011 still there’s nothing that even a recovering film critic likes better than a list.”
J. Hoberman Joins The New Century’s Listifiers

“I miss the experience of communal and theatrical filmgoing, mostly as a child in my family’s theaters in Alabama during the late 1940s and the 1950s. Part of that experience was quite clearly the experience of being part of a community, which is much harder to find and to feel these days in the United States—except, perhaps, on the Internet, where it’s a radically different notion of community, both physically and metaphysically.”
Jonnie Rosenbaum Chats With Uruguayan Film Mag

“If cinema survives, it will perhaps be for an unexpected reason. We’re so used to fearing the end of film, and so familiar with the thought that the golden age of Hollywood is long gone, that we sometimes forget how very young the movies are. Compared to opera, painting, theater, novels, poetry, architecture or music, film is but a teenager. Its hormones are raging. It’s still scared by what lies ahead, and is trying different guises.”
Mark Cousins Turns Optimist

“Peele has found a concrete metaphor for the ultimate unspoken fear: that to be oppressed is not so much to be hated as obscenely loved. Disgust and passion are intertwined. Our antipathies are simultaneously a record of our desires, our sublimated wishes, our deepest envies.”
Zadie Smith On Get Out

China Film Industry Seeks New Finance Models

“In almost every lead of Beasts of No Nation stories, [the box office] was the coverage. That’s the narrative. That’s very silly because we’re talking about the behavior of a couple hundred people. If it had been on three screens instead of 30, the per-screen-average would be great and it would be a hit. How ridiculous box office reporting is! We don’t need Oscars at all. I just don’t want our filmmakers to be disqualified for it because they did their movie with us. I want their films to compete for the Oscars on equal ground.”
Netflix Invests In Oscar Strategists Julie Fontaine, Ginsberg/Libby, Lisa Taback, Cynthia Swartz

Telluride 2017 Guest Director Is Joshua Oppenheimer