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Could “Mission Impossible 6″ Be Scuttled Over Tom Cruise Backend Profits?

“You and I are buying a house together, and it is called a fixer-upper, darling. The main question is, what is Shari going to do?”
Second-Largest Voting Shareholder In Viacom And CBS Comments

Richard Tanne On Why A Movie About The Obamas’ First Date

In London, A Season Of “Edgar Wright Presents”

Why Are Indian Actors Like Shah Rukh Khan Being Detained At U. S. Borders?

“There are fantastic, crazy cat videos out there,” says Herzog. “Nothing wrong about it.”

Anthony Weiner Says No, His Wife Huma Abedin Did Not Agree To That Documentary

“What’s wrong with somebody underwriting another person’s lawsuit? Not just the fact that Hogan sued Gawker and got a big judgment, but the fact that what was driving this litigation — and apparently driving it to the end-game of Gawker’s demise — was a very wealthy individual who feels passionately that Gawker’s kind of journalism is a threat to civil society, and certainly wanted to punish them. Whether he wanted to drive them out of business, I don’t really know. But let’s assume the worst — and he succeeded.”

Dave Itzkoff, The Man Who Wrote The Book On Network, Compares Chayefsky’s Vision Of 1970s Television To Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine

“Rohmer did not live the way other filmmakers lived. Not just other filmmakers of the French New Wave, of which he was both a kind of father figure and crucial component. I mean pretty much all other filmmakers.”
Glenn Kenny On The Éric Rohmer Bio

“That Time Nicolas Cage Ruined My Life,” By Vanessa Hojda

“This isn’t curation – this is typing keywords into your iTunes search bar and downloading the top result.”
Jason Bailey On The “Autopilot Music Supervision” Of War Dogs And Suicide Squad

“Since the state has given an order, we will listen.”
China Ratchets Down On Control Over Live-Streaming And “Bullet Screens”

Why It’s Important To Preserve The Digital Archives Of Gawker.com Now

Jack Riley, 80, Cohort Of Bob Newhart And TV Stalwart, Acted In High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs, Silent Movie, Boogie Nights, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud

Oscar-Winning Writer-Illustrator Shaun Tan Talks About Transforming Children’s Literature

David Mackenzie Narrates A Scene From Hell Or High Water

“We’re basically color-blind in terms of how we cast our films, and I think you can see that when you look at the totality of our movies.”
Kubo And The Two Strings Director Rejects Casting Contention

“I can understand that it would seem funny if those were our normal ‘hey Jonathan, what’s going on’ emails, which is not the case at all… It’s not what we write on a Tuesday afternoon. Obviously.”
Natalie Portman Says That NYT Profile With Email Between Her And Jonathan Safran Foer Was A Narrative Device

“In a way, it’s an artificial business to begin with. But still, you have to survive, and the people making the films have to survive. If you can’t [shoot your doc] in a year and a half or so, you’re into some sort of charitable endeavor. And that’s what this kind of filmmaking is – you satisfy your curiosity at whatever cost. It’s very hard to raise money to make these films, and we got some smaller grants, but just not enough to follow the story for three years. So it was essential for Kickstarter to keep this project going.”
Pennebaker & Hegedus On The Fraught Finance Of Unlocking The Cage (And Docs In General)

“I cannot separate the art and the artist, just as I cannot separate my blackness and my continuing desire for more representation of the black experience in film from my womanhood, my feminism, my own history of sexual violence, my humanity.”
Roxane Gay On “Nate Parker And The Limits Of Empathy”

“It is indelicate, but the advice grows from a pragmatic assessment that, in the current climate, ‘race trumps gender,’ if only by a little, when it comes to demands for social justice.”
Michael Cieply Surveys Unnamed Publicity Hands To Help Nate Parker

Max Read Asks, “Did I Kill Gawker?”

“The fight over Sumner M. Redstone’s $40 billion media empire is over, and the 93-year-old mogul has won.”

Report: Dauman Will Get $72 Million To Exit Viacom; Ouster In Coming Days

Or, Maybe Dauman Will Get $90 Million

Joe Morgenstern Offers A Sweet Rave For Hell Or High Water