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“While the Walton thrived as a community playhouse, it stopped showing movies, which created a kind of cultural segregation for the city: for two decades, to see a first-run blockbuster, Selma residents were forced to drive nearly 40 miles to Prattville, a Montgomery suburb that, unlike Selma, was majority white and affluent. For many, the drive was not just costly and time-consuming, but often dangerous.”

“Nikolai Borodachyov, director of Russia’s Gosfilmofond, or State Film Foundation, told newspaper Izvestia that his organization would not take part in the project” – titled The Eisenstein Handshakes – “unless details about Eisenstein’s ‘nontraditional sexual orientation’ were edited out of the screenplay.”

The director of the State Film Foundation, responding to earlier reports, said, “The reason is nothing to do with homosexuality, I didn’t talk about it at all. There are issues with the screenplay, but it’s not about this. For example, about the shooting of Battleship Potemkin. I really don’t like the way that Peter Greenaway interprets it.”

For a popular but complicated Stephen Sondheim musical that had nowhere near the widespread appeal of such shows as “Les Misérables” or “The Phantom of the Opera,” the breakout success of the film is something of a surprise. The film is managing the difficult feat of appealing to the younger “Frozen” audience as well as older fans of Broadway musicals.

Chris Boyd, the director of the national broadcaster’s English-language radio network, and human resources director Todd Spencer were placed on indefinite leave of absence after investigations – including one by the CBC’s own flagship news program – into the way they handled complaints over now-fired radio star Ghomeshi’s conduct.

“Netflix’ efforts to block geoblocking circumvention tools doesn’t come as a surprise. TF has seen a draft of the content protection agreement Sony Pictures prepared for Netflix earlier this year. This agreement specifically requires Netflix to verify that registered users are indeed residing in the proper locations.”

“‘The movie that’s on fire right now is Selma,’ Karger said. ‘A $900,000 opening on only 19 screens is huge.'”

“It’s not a question of homage but of throwing absolutely everything into the mix for processing, every stray particle of a commonly shared culture—every joke good or bad that you ever heard, every commercial you couldn’t escape from, every sex fantasy or tabloid crime story that inhabited your dreams, every tag line dredged up from ancient comic strips or pulp stories.”

“In honoring the French New Wave icon’s 39th feature, a densely layered 69-minute fantasia on the ongoing evolution of language, history, coupledom and cinema, the Society went decidedly against the grain in a season that has largely favored ‘Boyhood.'”

“Cinemas took in 29.6 billion yuan ($4.77 billion) in ticket sales last year with domestic films accounting for a little more than half the total, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Domestic productions made 16.15 billion yuan, or about 55 percent of the total, as China produced more than 600 movies, Xinhua cited Zhang Hongsen, head of the country’s film censor as saying.”