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Twin Cities Cinemas Reopen

Twin Cities Cinemas Reopen

Oscar Advantage

“If Hollywood’s mainstream prize ponies couldn’t all reach cinemas by the end of the year, perhaps this would be the year of increased opportunities for underdog indies – not to mention traditionally underrepresented minorities. If studio cinema remains a predominantly white, male realm, films by and about women and people of colour tend to get a fairer shake on VOD and streaming platforms; in turn, Academy members might have to diversify their viewing and voting. That possibility has been dampened by the expanded calendar.”

Jurassic World

“A private medical facility called Your Doctor to manage the entire production’s medical needs; virus training for all cast and crew; on-site doctors, nurses and isolation booths; 150 hand sanitizer stations; nightly antiviral ‘fogs’; more than 1,800 safety signs around Pinewood; and ‘Green Zones’ for shooting cast and crew. Masks obligatory other than for actors while performing.”
Jurassic World Sequel Shoot Precautions Miss Point Of The Movies That Came Before

Oscar Broadcast And Eligibility Dates Rescheduled

Oscar Broadcast And Eligibility Dates Rescheduled

Spike Woody

“I’d just like to say Woody Allen is a great, great filmmaker and this cancel thing is not just Woody. When we look back on it we are going to see that — short of killing somebody — I don’t know you just erase someone like they never existed. Woody is a friend of mine, a fellow Knick fan, and I know he’s going through it right now.”

Spike Peels Back From Woody: “I Deeply Apologize. My Words Were WRONG. I Do Not And Will Not Tolerate Sexual Harassment, Assault Or Violence. Such Treatment Causes Real Damage That Can’t Be Minimized.-Truly, Spike Lee.”

Universal Yanks Booking Of King Of Staten Island From a Hundred Drive–Ins

Universal Yanks Booking Of King Of Staten Island From a Hundred Drive-Ins

Provisional Tenet Release Date Loses Palindromic Character

Provisional Tenet Release Date Loses Palindromic Character

Sepinwall HBO Max

Alan Sepinwall: “The original sin. It’s a Warner Media app that’s using the HBO name as a lure, but has instead created this ongoing mess for the brand. When people ask “How could HBO mess this up?,” they don’t realize that HBO has no say in any of it.”

Spike Lee on Lingo

Spike Lee: “You have to be careful with the words because already this guy is running with that. You know the guy I’m talking about. Agent Orange. He’s trying to twist the narrative like he did with Kaepernick and the kneeling — trying to say that was about disrespecting the flag, but that wasn’t it at all. We’ve got to be careful what we say because one or two wrong words, they’ll twist that thing around and the narratives change. I don’t think people are saying we don’t need police at all, but ‘defund the police’ – I think there could be better terminology.”

Fox News Lies

Seattle Times: “Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.”

Rushfield Class Pics

Richard Rushfield Assembles “Class Picture” Of Studio Executive Suites

Ed Sullivan

“Ed Sullivan Show” Headed To YouTube With A Handful Of Performances Now Streaming

Chappelle

“The First Concert In North America Since All This Shit Happened”: Netflix Presents Dave Chappelle’s “8:46,” On YouTube

HBO Mini

“After brand confusion about HBO Max and other HBO apps, WarnerMedia is ‘sunsetting’ HBO Go and will rebrand HBO Now as HBO.”

R29

Refinery 29’s Photo Editor “loved Solange Knowles, Janelle Monáe was OK, but otherwise our team knew which celebrities would get rejected… the black ones,” the former editor said. “We kept pitching them anyway. But it was a running and grim, unfunny joke on our team. We’d say, ‘Gee, I wonder who will possibly get cut?’ Because we knew.”

Anna Wintour

“Despite the feverish speculation yesterday and into this morning, Anna Wintour is not resigning. “No truth” to those rumors, Condé CEO Roger Lynch said in a town hall meeting”

Nanci Ryder, 67

Nanci Ryder, 67, Co-founded Baker/Winokur/Ryder (BWR) Public Relations

Rachel Athina Tsangari

Rachel Athina Tsangari: “I’m reckoning with my role as a filmmaker in the midst of and post-pandemic. Am I essential, non-essential, deployed, a fatality, a disaster consumer, a privileged observer, a recorder, a sleepwalker, a carrier, a body, an antibody? I find solace in David Lynch’s universal call for daydreaming, for sitting tight by a window or under a tree, and waiting to ‘catch ideas’ from the ether. On a lucky day, when one appears all of a sudden fluttering about, I quickly grasp it and press it between the pages of my notebook, hopeful it will ferment into a sentence, an image, a watermark. We have yet to see if this fissure in time and space proves to be a dreamcatcher, or a dreamtrapper.”

Amazon, IBM, Microsoft Won’t Say Which Police Departments Use Their Facial Recognition Technology

Amazon, IBM, Microsoft Won’t Say Which Police Departments Use Their Facial Recognition Technology

Cineplex

Britain’s Cineworld Group Cites Canadian Cineplex “Breaches” And Calls Off $1.65 Billion Buy Of Exhibitor