MCN Curated Headlines Archive for May, 2019
Market Warnings: Major studios haven’t boycotted GA yet, but laid out conditions for departure. GA isn’t the only state w film tax credit, but we’re the major one potentially hostile to women. Want to change market conditions? 2020 state elections are a good start. #Consequences
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) May 31, 2019
Frank Lucas, druglord portrayed by Denzel Washington in ‘American Gangster,’ dies https://t.co/lvDwuyhYwC via @SunTimes
— Evan F Moore (@evanFmoore) June 1, 2019
Roky Erickson, founding member of The 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre, has died: https://t.co/AO1HP1gs8f #RokyErickson pic.twitter.com/d6nPneRlrd
— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) May 31, 2019
https://twitter.com/girlsontopstees/status/1133420267278086144?s=21
We are so excited to bring The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion's first feature film in over a decade, to Netflix and select theaters in 2021. Adapted from the 1967 Thomas Savage novel, the film will star Benedict Cumberbatch and Elisabeth Moss. pic.twitter.com/8weqRYqfpv
— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) May 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/donaldclarke63/status/1134220671393902593?s=21
Bigmouth strikes again and again: why Morrissey fans feel so betrayed https://t.co/5Wo7iUrliB
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 30, 2019

“As I prepared for my role on the show, I got to know you a lot better. I read about your lifetime devotion to public service and your respect for the rule of law. I watched how you presided over the special counsel’s office apparently without leaks. And you never wavered, even in the face of regular vicious attacks from the president and his surrogates.”
Mr. De Niro Addresses Mr. Mueller
by turning critics into connoisseurs of shit.
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) May 29, 2019
I say this with all seriousness: Critics should just lean into the fact that everyone hates them. https://t.co/jG4MmgEAv8
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) May 29, 2019
"Godfather" actor Carmine Caridi dies at 85 https://t.co/V4qncvC1yA pic.twitter.com/rR7YelTgKC
— Variety (@Variety) May 29, 2019
#HBD, Agnès Godard!
On working with Claire Denis on LET THE SUNSHINE IN: “‘Mellow, smooth, voluptuous,’ that was the kind of adjective she was using.”https://t.co/lEAlHV41sd pic.twitter.com/RpkNHfbtAv
— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) May 28, 2019
jeff bezos only following his ex-wife is some of the best online wife content you can buy pic.twitter.com/StsHarLovr
— Alana Hope Levinson (@alanalevinson) May 28, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran publicist and awards strategist Emily Lu Aldrich has founded the new venture Accolade Publicity and Consulting https://t.co/fLeYXH3TY1
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 24, 2019
"I have a disproportionate amount of money to share," she said, just months after finalizing her divorce from the world's richest man. https://t.co/wFEY9VrtXK
— CNN (@CNN) May 28, 2019
Netflix the Only Hollywood Studio to Speak Out in Attack Against Abortion Rights (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/Z3VcWXznZj via @variety
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) May 28, 2019
Ridley Scott will direct a third #Alien prequel, which is currently in the script phase https://t.co/y4wpVnM9oK pic.twitter.com/YIpEGjbOSu
— Variety (@Variety) May 27, 2019
Perhaps some scholar has worked on it and I’ve just not found the reference, but I think it’s never been written about before. It involves a hammer. And some trained swans. pic.twitter.com/iJT4rvrkAK
— Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) May 27, 2019
Related, I'm confident Booksm*rt was made for far less than that. I'm just so sick of the conversation framing these movies as flops.
— Erin Donovan (@goodyerin) May 27, 2019
“Somehow I became respectable,” John Waters writes. “I don’t know how, the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and was rated NC-17. Six people in my personal phone book have been sentenced to life in prison … What the hell has happened?” https://t.co/Tw3k7ZVWxC
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 27, 2019

“As riveting as Malick’s E.E. Cummings visual cinematic movies are, so too are their commercial prospects risky. For the most part, his movies don’t make money.”
Deadline Weighs Malick, Finds Malick Wanting
Quentin Tarantino is the ID of American entertainment:
raw, overpowering, compulsively engaging
base, amoral, unrelenting and unstoppable— N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S (@scottderrickson) May 24, 2019
“I kept a diary the whole time, and it’s inadvertently hilarious. I wrote everything down in this matter-of-fact way, which ends up making it seem even more preposterous: “Woke up, watched ‘Grandstand.’ Wrote ‘Candle in the Wind.’ Went to London, bought Rolls-Royce. Ringo Starr came for dinner.”
Sir Elton On His Life Story Onscreen
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran publicist and awards strategist Emily Lu Aldrich has founded the new venture Accolade Publicity and Consulting https://t.co/fLeYXH3TY1
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 24, 2019

“We were sitting in a suite at a swanky Beverly Hills hotel that was all genteel charcoals and dove grays. Against it, Thompson was a kinetic pop. Her platinum plume of hair was in a state of floppy disarray suggestive of multiple rakings by harried fingers, and she had on her famous Stella McCartney sneakers along with an ensemble the color of lime sorbet, which I murmured appreciation for; it was a palate cleanser, just like her! ‘It’s pistachio, darling,’ she corrected.”
“Emma Thompson Gets a Shock at 60”
A Korean film has finally won the Palme d’Or. For anyone who doesn’t know the Korean Film Archive has uploaded a bunch of classic films on YouTube with English subtitles. It’s free and an excellent resource for film history education.https://t.co/3UJQHEAXST
— Cathy Brennan (@TownTattle) May 25, 2019
Cannes Goes Bong
Today @Booksmart comes out. And it’s hilarious and the reviews are blowing my mind. It began with a script that I wrote with Emily Halpern TEN YEARS ago. It was our first baby. And, like you would hope for your real child, every new person in its life has made it even better.
— sarah_haskins (@sarah_haskins) May 24, 2019
"I just reject your hypothesis" is the "fake news" of aging edgelords.
— Mary Gillis (@living_marble) May 23, 2019
This is my favourite response to being ratioed. Person makes silly, unsubstantiated claim, gets owned, and then doubles down with “I know you are, but what am I?” pic.twitter.com/kZgkzF1lid
— Ali Arikan (@aliarikan) May 23, 2019
Okay, I finally watched FLEABAG, it was fine I guess but I have an issue, minor spoilers – at the end, how do I watch anything else or make anything else or live my life or breathe or feel or care or walk or fly did I fly am I here is it me do I live though this now what how but
— Joss Whedon (@joss) May 22, 2019