If films are becoming like books, where the artistically ambitious ones are only rarely big hits, then directors working outside Hollywood will become more and more like novelists, who often need to supplement their income with teaching or other outside jobs.
From the production team responsible for Nick Cave's musical docu-drama 20,000 Days on Earth and LCD Soundsystem's Shut Up And Play The Hits and director Kahlil Joseph, whose short films and unique cinematic eye has caught the attention of artists like Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar, The Reflektor Tapes follows the band around the world while they record their most recent album, Reflektor.
What held all these brilliant fledglings together was the old pro George Abbott, the commercial theatre's most hit-prone director.
Reports from the court hearing confirm that Mak Chi-Shing, who was jailed for two and a half years, did try to hit the director.
THE NEXT BIG IDEA When the recession hit, Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum, said she and other organizations in downtown Manhattan "began asking ourselves what the new normal would be".
Though production apparently went swimmingly, and positive test screenings prepped Holland's film as a potential hit; the director was shocked when Cusack first sat down to watch the film, got up 20 minutes into the screening, and never returned.
The film, a 2004 hit for director Alexander Payne who adapted it from a book of the same name, is an engaging tale of a pair of feckless slobs on a stag trip in wine country.
Just three hours before the news hit, Tommy Mayes, director of the Palm Beach office of the wealth management company Calibre, said he was at a conference meeting with investors who spoke glowingly of Mr. Madoff.
Other strong contenders at this stage include Xavier Dolan's much-admired Mommy, submitted by Canada Israell's Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, a selection at Cannes and Toronto, by sister-brother film-makers Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz; and Mauritania's Timbuktu, a Cannes hit for director Abderrahmane Sissako.
One shell hit the director tower and passed through it without exploding; regardless, it cut several cables and killed one officer and five enlisted men.
