MCN Curated Headlines Archive for April, 2018
“It is critical that Mr. Weinstein be granted access to e-mails relevant to the certain civil proceedings and criminal investigations and that are in the Debtors’ possession, as they were sent or received by his TWC e-mail accounts. The Debtors’ continued refusal to permit Mr. Weinstein to access these emails has significantly impinged his ability to effectively defend himself from these allegations and is a continuing deprivation of his due-process rights.”
Harvey Weinstein Hoves Into View At Bankruptcy Court
“There are a lot of people inside and outside who think that these are reasonable issues, that the academy is not being well run… It’s a bit knee-jerk, and it’s trying to figure out what it wants to be. The final thing that pushed me over the edge is I went back to incite change and to get a better academy, and I did not feel like I was successful at all.”
Bill Mechanic Speaks
“The major change is to make sure that all of our programming — the festival, our learning programs, our theatrical releases, our Cinematheque, everything that we do — all works in the same direction to serve this incredible audience that we have and to use all of the tools of TIFF to do that. We want to keep our audience really engaged and excited. People are always going to want to share experiences with other people. They’re always going to want to share that discovery of a new movie.”
Cameron Bailey On New Responsibilities At Toronto Int’l And TIFF Lightbox
“They would finally have to reveal to the public how their titles perform.”
“Netflix has rejected showing its movies at some willing theaters, and Hw’d insiders don’t understand why”
“Wall Street meets Apocalypse Now, Cavicchia as Colonel Kurtz, ensconced upriver in his suite eight floors above the security team. People were shocked that no one from the bank or Palantir set any real limits. They darkly joked he was listening to calls, reading their emails, watching them come and go. Some planted fake information in communications to see if Cavicchia would mention it at meetings, which he did. It ended when JPMorgan’s senior executives learned that they, too, were being watched, and what began as a promising marriage of masters of big data and global finance descended into a spying scandal. An intelligence platform designed for the global War on Terror was weaponized against ordinary Americans at home.”
“Palantir Knows Everything About You”
“Given this opportunity, I’m sure that Saudi Arabian filmmakers are now going to start making the kinds of films that will gain recognition all over the world. And I bet very soon, a film from Saudi Arabia will get nominated for an Oscar. I love that you’re going to the movies!”
“Tom Rothman, Jeff Shell, Jim Gianopulos, Alan Bergman and Kevin Tsujihara were among those to record special video messages for the historic screening of Black Panther on Wednesday night in Riyadh.”
“Netflix would like to get some of its movies for Oscar contention or other types of industry awards. They’re trying to get credibility. Netflix took off when a couple of their own titles got nominated for Emmys. That lent credibility to what they’re doing. If they can do that for various awards, that might raise the platform.”
Netflix Has Considered Buying Up Brick-‘n’-Mortar as Oscar Showcases For Streaming Content
“Monáe soundlessly padded into the room, clad in a velour caftan, gold earrings and rings to match. She was barefoot, her toes painted metallic silver.”
Jenna Wortham On “How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice”
Bill Mechanic's angry letter resigning from the AMPAS Board of Governors is a really bad collection of gripes, including a slap at the last ten years of Best Picture winners that makes me quite glad he's out. https://t.co/sCVvtkivAW
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) April 18, 2018
“It’s incredibly saddening that a group of people with an agenda are willing to advocate untruths and say anything just to attempt to discredit the Weekly and anyone who is involved with it.”
“The new owners discussed ‘influencer programs,’ to help mitigate the PR-shitstorm we were consumed in, and touted their vast Rolodex of friends flocking to advertise in the paper and site, primarily from the corporate-marijuana industry. They discussed prospecting celebrities in some instances to produce written content on films — not interviewed by reporters or writers, but stories on movies by the movie stars that appear in them.”
An Insider’s First-Person Account Of What Became Of LA WEEKLY
“He’s looking for a doormat at this point.”
Harper’s Editor Says He Was Fired Over “Exceedingly Mediocre” Katie Roiphe Cover Story Assigned By PR Staffer That Attacked The “Shitty Media Men” List And Its No-Longer-Anonymous Author
“They even took pains to recreate the same texture and color of the cement.”
Amazon Studios Turfs The Culver Studios As Their Own With $12 Million Renovation And Tens Of Millions More From Landlord To Come
“The bacon’s got a wow factor. When you hear those words first things in the morning, I feel like this place is going to work.”
Bill Murray Plumps His Caddyshack-Themed Restaurant
Michael Phillips Talks True Screwball And The Awful Truth With Molly Haskell
“The greatest of all screwball couples, who became comic divinities thanks to the magic in McCarey’s madness.”
With – Haskell’s Criterion Liner Notes
