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Pacino, Scarface cast celebrate film’s legacy

Part of the charm of the film, Pacino said, is that it wasn’t initially a hit. “It’s one of my favorites because of its whole evolution,” he said. “It (was) sort of eviscerated after it opened by the press. … Nobody was fond of it, except it had good audience participation.” Read the full AP article

Disney Allows Reproduction of ‘Up’ House in Utah

This is a company that once forced a Florida day care center to remove an unauthorized Minnie Mouse mural. More recently, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a child’s gravestone would violate its copyright. So how is a homebuilder in this Salt Lake City suburb getting away with selling a near-identical copy of the floating house in the Disney-Pixar film Up? Read the full NY Times article

Viola Davis, If Nominated, Will Become only Second Black Actress to Earn Two

Whoopi Goldberg is currently the only black actress to be twice nominated for an Academy Award. How can this be? So many say the industry is to blame. The industry reflects the audience and the audience doesn’t pay so much to see films with black women in leading roles. The Oscars then reflect the industry, which reflects the public, which reflects politics and attitudes – it’s a snake eating its own tail. It’s a clusterfuck. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Read the full Awards Daily post

Samuel L. Jackson Talks MLK Jr. in ‘The Mountaintop’

In the NY Mag interview, Jackson also expressed how he would like younger people to “find out that King is more than just a speech. He made the ultimate sacrifice. Guys like him, like Gandhi and Jesus, they stood up for something and got killed for it. But hopefully the movement carries on.” Read the full indieWIRE post

Portrait of the artist: Joe Wright, film director

Which other artists do you admire the most? // David Lynch. I met him for the first time the other day, and it was like meeting my guru. He was sitting at a dinner table and I felt odd standing above him, so I ended up falling to my knees so that I could be lower than he was. Read the full Guardian article

U.S. film producers are engaging the Chinese

After years of frustration with the Chinese government’s severe limits on how many imported movies can play in its theaters, several prominent American film producers are cutting ambitious deals with Chinese firms that provide alternative routes into the country’s exploding movie market. Read the full LA Times article

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