THB Headlines, July 28
THB Headlines, July 28
“No, Zas… that would be dumb. I appreciate you picking up the check, but…”
Alan Horn Joins Warner Bros. Discovery in Consultant Role
Masters - Alan Horn On Rejoining Warner Bros.: “I See Myself as a Consigliere”
‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech
How VHS store Whammy! became the L.A. hub of a rewind revolution
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.
By Ted Gioia
Mary Alice Dies: ‘A Different World’ & ‘Matrix Revolutions’ Actor Won Tony Award For ‘Fences’
Paul Sorvino: A Voluble Man Who Excelled as a Brick of a Mobster
Martin Scorsese regarding Bob Rafelson’s passing:
“Bob Rafelson was a pivotal figure in the history of cinema, American cinema most of all, and he was a bridge between two eras in Hollywood moviemaking. He was literally born into the old Hollywood—his cousin was the great screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, one of Lubitsch’s key collaborators—and he was one of the people who made the New Hollywood possible, as a producer and then as a director. His company, BBS, produced Easy Rider, the film that changed everything and opened the way for my generation to get our pictures made. And then, in close collaboration with Jack Nicholson, he made Five Easy Pieces, a massive success and a great film that really caught the mood of the country at the time. When you watch that picture, or the follow-up with Nicholson, The King of Marvin Gardens, or the beautiful historical epic Mountains of the Moon, you can see filmmaking grounded in the language of classical Hollywood but adapted with great sensitivity to a different era. Bob and I met just a few times and I never got to know him well, but we filmmakers owe him a lot. In the history of our art form, he was a giant.”
— Martin Scorsese