“As to her lingering doubts about her appearance: ‘That’s OK,’ Nyong’o says, with a sly smile, ‘because it will keep me grounded. I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.'”

Pamela Hutchinson‘s Brief History Of Women Behind The Camera

Studio Built From Embers Of The Weinstein Company Reportedly Could Be Named Wonder Hill, Assembly Hall, Or Creative Trade Studios; Looking To Occupy Space Abandoned By Broad Green

Charlie Kaufman Goes Netflix To Adapt And Direct “I’m Thinking Of Ending Things”

“Guys, we think we’re strong because we hold it all in and don’t talk about it. I beat myself up for years over this. I remember thinking, I wish somebody would say something. Because these guys are getting away with murder. All of them, from agents to casting directors to clients to photographers, they all know what’s going on. And nobody’s saying anything, because they can count on us as men holding all that in.”
Elderly Fashion Photographer Bruce Weber, Accused Of Pattern Of Sexual Harassment, Painted As “Creepy Santa Claus”

“Mandy grounds itself in the idea of desire and peace, and their subsequent loss and perversion. And it also suggests that the only thing keeping the world from turning into an unholy carnage fest is the power of love. The film’s two sides — the soft, textured reverie of its first half, and the surreal, angular savagery of its second — exist in perpetual balance; one would die without the other.”

Lili Loofbourow On “The Female Price of Male Pleasure”

“They are showing our history incorrectly. They have not given a religious touch to it — they have given a glamorous touch to it. If they are showing such disrespect to Padmini, who sacrificed so much and died, how will they treat Rajput women in the future? The only weapon we have is to kill ourselves and finish it off.”
Outraged Women In India Threaten Mass Suicide Over Padmaavat

The Harvey Weinstein Blotter, Via The Home Office In Scottsdale, Arizona
Harvey Weinstein Ex-Assistant Sues for Harassment, Offenses Include Weinstein Regularly Dictating Emails Naked; Forced To Clean Semen From Couch After Weinstein’s Sexual Liasions; Buying Lingerie; Maintaining Stock Of Erection Injections with filing
And – Anne Heche Says Weinstein Fired Her After Demanding Oral Sex

“Privately positioned behind gates and on a low-rise bluff at the end of a whisper-quiet cul-de-sac with 260 feet of unspoiled shoreline along Gardiner’s Bay, the 1.93-acre spread is anchored by a sprawling, shingle-sided residence of luxurious yet comfortably casual space. The family room tat incorporates an informal dining space, floor-to-ceiling French doors and a fireplace where the once formidably powerful producer displayed an impressive row of Academy Award statuettes and other industry awards.”
Harvey Weinstein And Georgina Chapman Sell At Loss 9,000-Square Foot, Seven-Bedroom Amagansett Retreat

“Whenever I shoot anything remotely comedy-driven in widescreen (2.39), I’m always inspired by the work of Lawrence Sher. A lot of folks laugh at me when I say the words Hangover 2, and I know it’s not what many would consider serious cinema, but just watch it with the sound off. He is a coverage and lighting genius.”
Paint DP Sam Chase

“The Injustice of Algorithms: Prejudice is often coded into software, including tools used by the government“

Casey Affleck Will Not Present Best Actress Oscar

Damien Chazelle Scores Apple Deal For Second Series, On Which He’ll Be Only Director

Snowsport And Skiing Doc King Warren Miller Was 93

“Cattelan would like to offer it to the White House for a long-term loan. It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care.”
Guggenheim Turns Down Request For Van Gogh For Trump Bedroom, Offers 24 Karat Gold Maurizio Cattelan Toilet In Its Stead

Meg Whitman Named CEO Of Katzenberg’s Mobile Media Startup

“Though Black actors, directors, publicists, and screenwriters are at and have been attending events like Sundance in full force, the representation of the Black press is abysmal. This speaks of a continuing disconnect in Hollywood which is not just about a lack of representation, but a reluctance to bridge the gap with Black audiences as a whole. Black film criticism in particular is so important and yet so undervalued. Who better to analyze stories about us and present them to our audiences than those who can relate to them on a more intimate level.”
Aramide A Tinubu Says Sundance Needs More Black Press

“The most concerning question at hand is how the organization’s woes may [affect] the search for an HIV cure.”
Poz Investigates Harvey Weinstein’s AMFAR Charity Dirty Dealing

Sundance Assassination Nation Teen Girl Revenger Pic Goes To NEON And Russo Bros For $10 Million 

Netflix Ready To Hike Fees Again? 

Toronto Publisher Coach House Books’ Poetry Board Member Accused Of Sexual Impropriety Days After List Suspended

News: As additional sign of turmoil inside LAT newsroom, biz editor Kimi Yoshino suspended for 2 days and escorted from bldg. No cause known

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) January 25, 2018

“Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now”

Daniel Clowes’ Poster To Announce Opening of Now-Defunct Sunshine Cinema in New York in December 2001

Seven Figures For Sundance-Premiered VR Project, Co-Produced By Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa

“The key is the immediate expensing of the purchase of tangible property (excluding real estate). This includes film, television, and live theatrical production. It’s possible all the assets Disney is buying from Fox could be immediately deductible.”
“Is the Disney/Fox deal actually tax-free?”

21st Century Fox Bid For Remaining 61% Of Sky Provisionally Blocked By UK Regulator

“Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash,” Katie Herzog Observes

“The journalism business is above all a business, and it makes hard decisions every day on how to use its resources – both in the way it allocates space, and the way it spends money. I can disagree with the company’s decision to eliminate my movie coverage, but I can’t deny their right to make it. I can mourn the fact, though, that, as of tomorrow New Jersey – the birthplace of the American motion picture – will no longer have a single, fulltime film writer.”
Stephen Whitty

“Why does James Franco’s queerbaiting matter, when the issue at hand is his sexual exploitation of women? Although publicly trumpeting your identification with queer identity and queer ideas is usually described as ‘coming out,’ in Franco’s case, claiming some form of queerness proved a valuable tactic in defusing alleged transgressions and abuse.”

New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre Fires Longtime Artistic Director After Detailed Allegations of Sexual Harassment And Assault

“We’re a music-making species. We’re also a music-exchanging species: long before lovesick teenagers curated mixtapes for each other, or digital streaming services enabled us to swap favorite tracks, we were communicating and connecting through music.”

Disney Gives Bonus Equivalent To $19.25 A Week For Coming Year, Even As Thousands Of Jobs Will Be Lost If Fox Merger Is Allowed 

“The expected synergies to come from Disney’s $52.4 billion purchase of most of Twenty-First Century Fox assets could mean job cuts of between 5,000-10,000 at the Mouse House.”

“I left my dream of being a director behind long ago, and I think that was because, while I have a great respect for film, I didn’t really believe there was a place for very many black directors,” Peele said. “I thought it would be harder for me as a person of color to convince someone to let me use their money to make a movie. Many years later I came back to my original dream. And the fact that it’s been received the way it has been received teaches me a lot about how I internalized the system.”

Meryl Streep Joins “Big Little Lies”

“Hunched in a wheelchair, right arm in a sling, face bloated and bearded, Mark E Smith sang-spat a repeated phrase – “I think it’s over now, I think it’s ending” – as his sidemen locked into a brutal riff.”
A Dispatch From Mark E. Smith’s Final Show With The Fall In November

Mark E. Smith, Post-Punk, Was 60

Mark E Smith didn’t rule The Fall, he wasn’t the dictator of cliché. He saw it as an entity outside of himself, of which he was the curator, the caretaker, the hip priest. RIP, one of the greatest poets & artists this nation has ever known.

— Luke Turner (@LukeTurnerEsq) January 24, 2018

“We don’t have censorship. We’re not afraid of critical or hard-hitting assessments of our history. But there’s a moral boundary between critical analysis and pure mockery. Many older people view this as an offensive mockery of the entire Soviet past, of the country that defeated fascism, of the Soviet army and of ordinary people.”
Russia Bans Death Of Stalin

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Decries “Regulatory Whiplash”; Demands Congress Pass a Federal Net Neutrality Law