Whereas before Disney may have been the studio making more money at the box office than everyone else, they may end up as the only studio making anymoney at the box office. And that, in turn, will cause trickle-down effects throughout the industry. All the way down to movie theaters, many of which will have to close as a result. Looking forward from this point, I think the big movie theater chains are in trouble. They’ve known this for a while, which is why there has been so much consolidation. But whereas before, it seemed like it would be a long, drawn out death, I now believe we’re nearing this finale sooner than many thought.
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The Top Nominees For Best Actress All Avoided Ryan Seacrest, And Here’s What Others Had To Say About MeToo
All five Best Actress nominees, and many other actors, skipped interviews with E!’s Ryan Seacrest, and The New York Times just straight-up asked other actors to talk about #MeToo. Some of them were ready, and some, well, were not.
The Academy Expanded, But The Theatre Shrank, So Who Gets Tickets To The Oscars?
After tickets for nominees and their family and friends, tickets for the studios, tickets for media, etc., are given away, there are only a few hundred left. “Members receive an email around the holidays, inviting them to enter a ticket lottery. And while the academy has embraced online voting, the lottery is conducted the old-fashioned way. Names are written on slips of paper and then pulled out of a drum. ‘We don’t use a hat, but it’s close,’ says an academy worker familiar with the process.”
To Avoid Any Mix-Ups, The Envelopes For The Oscars Listed Their Categories In Huge Print
If you were watching, you might have started laughing as soon as Viola Davis came out to present the Best Supporting Actor award: “The gold, giant bold type on the dark envelope, loudly announcing the name of the category, was so unmistakable it could be read clearly on TV. Last year’s envelope was an elegant red, but the smaller gold lettering on it was not so easily readable.”
How ‘The Post’ Makes Katherine Graham Less Interesting Than She Really Was
Obviously, it would do that because it’s just a movie, not a life (and not even a biopic), but still: “The real Graham, who survived a poor-little-rich-girl childhood and an abusive marriage, was wracked for most of her life by self-doubt. Her actual life … oozed much more drama, and she lived through it with a mix of admirable qualities (guts, leadership) and ugly ones (insecurity, insensitivity).”
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Oscars, Including A Link To All Of The Winners
If you want the summary, all of the acting awards went as expected; Guillermo del Toro won Best Director; and Shape of Water won Best Picture. But here’s everything.
What Paramount Is Doing To ‘Annihilation’ Is A Troubling Precedent For The Studio
Paramount sold the international rights to the movie, with five female leads, to Netflix, which means Paramount doesn’t have to advertise or market it anywhere aside from the U.S. That’s a problem. “Annihilation is a film of stunning visuals and rumbling audio, complementing a brainy and psychologically unsettling story; it deserves to be seen on a big screen in Dolby surround sound with the full attention of the viewer, rather than as Bright-level background noise while folding laundry and checking Instagram.”
What’s Next For The Woman Who Bought The Weinstein Company?
Maria Contreras-Sweet and her investors group have a plan: “to turn the rubble of Harvey Weinstein’s former New York-based studio into a new, female-focused film and TV company run by women. If the plan works, it would be an unprecedented turnaround for a badly tarnished company and possibly even set an example for the male-dominated entertainment industry.”
Where Did A24, The Movie Studio That Funds Arthouse Hit After Arthouse Hit, Come From?
The studio, which funded last year’s Best Picture winner Moonlight and this year’s Florida Project … and Lady Bird as well. But “how has the company so quickly created such a strong consumer identity, with analysts saying that fans are starting to buy tickets simply because they see A24’s retro logo on a trailer?” It’s a mystery (deliberately so).
It’s Been Fifty Years Since ‘The Graduate’ Won Best Picture
How does it hold up? Hm; the Gen-Xers who discuss it here are mostly bemused. “I don’t quite understand how young audiences would have seen Benjamin’s stupefaction in the face of a future beyond his control as righteous—or even particularly rebellious. There’s really nothing countercultural about running off with the pretty girl next door.”