Jordan Peele also won best director at the Indie Spirit Awards, but Lady Bird won best screenplay, and all of the actors who have been winning everything, well, won everything. Still … could it predict what happens tonight?
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The Making Of ‘Get Out’: An Oral History Of ‘The First Great Movie Of The Trump Era’
“As one of the most unlikely Oscar Best Picture nominees in years, Get Out is being taught in courses on racism and Afro¬futurism. It began as an insight in the brain of creator Jordan Peele during the 2008 primary fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton and premiered at Sundance within a week of Donald Trump’s inauguration. This is the story of how Get Out got out.”
Weinstein Company Rescued From Bankruptcy By Female-Led Investor Group
Just days after the company, unable to find a buyer, announced it would file for bankruptcy, a group led by Barack Obama’s chief of the Small Business Administration agreed to take it over. Said that leader, Maria Contreras-Sweet, “I will be chairwoman of a majority-female board of directors. Women will be significant investors in the new company and control its voting stock.”
Some Insights To How The Oscars Are Being Reformed
Assessing this year’s crop of nominees, one can detect certain trends that indicate where the Oscars are heading and why. I offer three, all of them holding out the promise that the Academy is in little danger of making a gaffe on the order of Around the World in 80 Days (1956’s baffling choice for Best Picture) anytime soon.
How Facebook’s Algorithm Tweak Wiped Out A Thriving Digital Publisher
The site Little Things, which had amassed 12 million Facebook followers, said the recent algorithm shift, which Facebook has said was designed to tamp down content that is consumed passively — and would instead emphasize posts from people’s friends and family — took out roughly 75% of LittleThings’ organic traffic while hammering its profit margins.”
When Machines Are Reporting The News You’re Consuming
In the not-so-distant future, we will be presented with the version of the news we wish to read — not the news that some reporter, columnist or editorial board decides we need to read. And it will be entirely written by artificial intelligence (AI).
The Movie Industry’s Greatest Innovations-Gone-Wrong, From AromaRama To Astrocolor
“IMAX is hugely popular, while virtual reality movies are gaining steam. But what about film inventions that never took off? When will they get their due? … We asked four film experts to each write about a different flop. Some ideas were on the right track and would eventually be realized in one form or another. But others are probably best relegated to the dustbin of history.”
Does Anyone Really Care About The Oscars Anymore?
To revisit that stat about how few people have seen any of this year’s nominees: I keep wondering why at this point, with so many ways to watch movies on-demand or stream them, the Academy hasn’t just made the movies available for everyone to see on some platform ahead of the Oscars for some sort of fee. People are genuinely curious about, say, Lady Bird or Call Me by Your Name by the time the Oscars roll around, but don’t necessarily have access to seeing them. Sure, the devil’s advocate could argue they might have had their chance to see them when they were in wide release. But there’s also something to be said for the way our habits have changed to be conditioned to streaming from home, and that interest often isn’t piqued until, basically, right now, when the Oscars are about to happen.
Want To See More Diversity In Hollywood? Vote With Your Wallet
“To find out what moviegoers who want to advocate for diversity in Hollywood can do to help, Mic reached out to several experts in the entertainment industry.” Said one, “If Hollywood thought that its lack of representation in terms of women and people of color would cost it money, then they would change overnight. Or, if they thought it would make them money, they would be more inclined to be inclusive.” And, in fact, that’s starting to happen.
Can Blockbuster “Panther” Movie Save Movie Theatre Business?
A movie with this type of drawing power couldn’t come at a better time for movie theater investors. Changing consumer demand has pummeled theater investments in recent times. While the S&P 500 gained 29% over the past three years, stocks for the largest film exhibitors have taken it on the chin.