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  1. About that... Target is pulling back on self-checkout, limiting service to people with 10 items or fewer Dollar General is rolling back self-checkout in thousands of stores Five Below is the latest chain to retreat from self-checkout * All that #KateGate hysteria and unhinged conspiracy theories and over what? It's 2024, schools sell editing with the picture day packages. When I watched live sports last fall, there were ads for a camera that swapped out heads and erased bits in the background to get the perfect picture. All these celebrities on Instagram acting shocked shocked about an edited photo posted on the grid. The maimstream media kept banging the drum about trust in institutions and AI, to pry a diagnosis out of the palace. Every few months it feels like there's a cultural reckoning about how, 10-20 years ago, some celebrity or another was mercilessly bullied for the flimsiest reasons, and wasn't it terrible how that happened? "Thank goodness we know better now!" Only to go on and treat a different, currently famous person the exact same way.
  2. Singin' in the Rain is a jukebox musical and it's an all-time classic... I doubt Joker 2 will be anywhere close to its quality, but hey, they're taking a risk likely to alienate a big chunk of the first movie's fanbase. Phillips could have just taken the money done a Hangover 2-level retread. I'm guessing there'll be at least one original song but maybe Gaga didn't write it. The focus can be on her Best Actress push and she'll get to go Comedy/Musical this time, often a less competitive category than Drama.
  3. Oppenheimer officially crossed the 4x multiplier on Wednesday.
  4. OTOH, Gladstone could've been another Ariana DeBose, Yuh-jung Youn situation where Supporting Actress was the only win for their movies. I feel anyone who did win precursors as a Lead would have been even stronger with the same performance in a Supporting category The year that Benicio del Toro won the Supporting Actor Oscar, he was submitted as a Lead at SAG and won there (over Russell Crowe in Gladiator). The next year, Jennifer Connolly won the Supporting Actress Oscar but was nominated as a Lead at SAG. And Alicia Vikander with The Danish Girl, she won the Supporting Actress Oscar but other awards nominated her in Lead, where she didn't win. Oscar junkies are going to argue about Lily's category for years.
  5. If it's obvious a blockbuster won't win Best Picture or anything "important" (because it hasn't won those things at any of the earlier shows), just being nominated by the Academy wouldn't juice the ratings that much. You weren't getting flocks of Avatar 2 fans watching the entire Oscars just to see it win for VFX. However, if it seems like a coronation is in the works for a very popular movie, then more fans of it might tune in to see that. Hyped musical performances are another way to bring in viewers. Back when they changed up hosts, there were ratings boosts for Ellen DeGeneres and Seth MacFarlane. Anyway, I think the real reason the ratings didn't go up more is because Sunday was the first day of Daylight Savings Time, which has historically hurt live TV viewership (here are articles about this phenomenon from 2010, 2013, and 2017, for starters). Another reason that the Oscars should have happened last week, or even earlier. It's true that actors have won in lead without dominant screentime. But it wouldn't have been an issue if they'd just given Gladstone more to do onscreen. There have been other Best Actress nominations from movies where the woman slowly comes to realize her man is shady (or worse), and the actress is actually onscreen the most of anyone in the cast. I wasn't displeased about KotFM missing a Screenplay nomination because the biggest criticisms of it (too long, sidelines Mollie) stem from the script.
  6. I don't know if reading the nominees again or not had anything to do with Pacino's odd presentation, it was very "Liz Taylor at the Golden Globes". Apparently Pacino was supposed to present with Michelle Pfeiffer as a Scarface reunion (she was announced), presumably she would have done the heavy lifting.
  7. The Anonymous Ballots and pundits said there was resistance to Barbie—some voters just couldn't get past it being based on a doll. Nolan didn't win for a Batman movie, so Gerwig probably has to do something more Oscar-y too, and more overtly about middle aged characters. Al Pacino explaining that Best Picture presentation: Taylor and Travis went to Madonna's (no cameras) after party.
  8. It came true: the movie won an Oscar, P.I.M.P. played as the walk up music and Twitter was so confused!
  9. I don't think it's a coincidence that Nolan's two nominations for Best Director happened with World War II era dramas. Spielberg could at least get nominated for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. The Directors Branch is so highbrow now. Da'Vine wouldn't have stood a chance against Emma IMO. Lily had the least screentime (in sheer minutes and percentage) of all of this year's Best Actress nominees and Da'Vine had even less screentime than that in The Holdovers. I don't think screentime is the only measure of lead/supporting and that a supporting character can have their own storyline. Originally the supporting categories were all about star power, irrespective of screentime.
  10. The "most populist Lanthimos film ever" is kind of like being the world's heaviest ant. His movies are on the odd side to put it mildly, just the aesthetic alone loses people. Depends on what internet circles you hang around lol, but La La Land losing Best Picture was probably the best thing that happened to its image. Musicals with strong female leads are rarely seen as "worthy" by film bros. On Xitter, Scott Mendelson mentioned that Oppenheimer is the first Best Picture winner to gross $400+ million worldwide since The King's Speech. There was so much disbelief in the comments because since that Oscars night, the internet has done nothing but bash TKS as a so-so PBS special Weinstein brainwashed voters into liking. When in reality, it got critical raves and the public preferred it to The Social Network at the box office. Sometimes winning Oscars can be the worst thing for a movie or person's long-term reputation. Anyway everyone knows this season's Oscar villain was Maestro. At least when Film Twitter mercilessly bashed Anne Hathaway as a cringe tryhard, she still took home an Oscar for all her trouble.
  11. With some of these names, I'd say they were overwhelmingly known for television—even if they technically worked on movies at some point—and made the In Memoriam at the Emmys. The year the Oscars flashed the names by too quickly, everyone complained about that, so it's either making the segment longer or trimming the list. Still, the Academy never has a good answer for why certain people are excluded despite extensive movie careers.
  12. Comedy songs don't have a good history in the Original Song category, plus Barbie as a movie had the problem of not being taken seriously by enough Academy voters. When Greta and Margot missed Director/Actress, the Barbie fans were saying that was anti-feminist, and how would it look to reward the male-centric song? The race was over once Billie's song won a main category at the Grammys. You'll be hearing "What Was I Made For?" on singing shows and pageants for years. Lol my lack of enthusiasm for Maestro goes way back (four Oscar nights ago)! Brad, maybe branch out from movies about messy celebrity marriages?
  13. He was on another project when Nolan was doing Tenet and that's when Jennifer Lame came in.
  14. Loved the takeoff on "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" for this "I'm Just Ken" performance.
  15. 2020, the Academy said calling it Foreign Language was outdated. Enjoyed Ryan and Emily's Barbenheimer snark though this show will be lucky to end before 11 Eastern.
  16. They already made Titanic II and it was pretty bad... But seriously, sequels have gotten nominated and won Best Picture before. I don't think a straight sequel to the 1997 Titanic would work, but someday there might be comedy about the filming of it or a story centering one of the supporting characters.
  17. They said they were going to address the allegations and there you go... The PR tour is going to be something but the (adult) actors all knew what they were signing up for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  18. Lmao so unserious. Of course it was a campaign move, but who cares? The studios all campaign for months and pour millions into the showbiz economy. If the voters were so easily swayed by a dog, then the award isn't worth obsessing about and they probably didn't like the other movies that much anyway. But some people in Hollywood still love a good dog:
  19. Angel Studios gave Deadline a breakdown with Sound of Freedom's financials, including exact figures for Pay It Forward grosses and ticket sales. The ATP came out to $11.92 (and the fees $0.62 per ticket). The $15 amount for Pay It Forward is (to my understanding) more like a $15 donation to Angel Studios that includes the cost of a ticket (donors have to pay the overage for pricier markets, but look at where they are the most popular). The ticket amount Angel reports for box office purposes seems to be roughly regular market value (the same as non PIF tickets).
  20. The alleged QAnon associations with some of the cast and supporters of the film, plus the Pay It Forward tickets, which detractors considered cheating the box office. Social media posts were made claiming to present sellout shows as supposedly empty, even though theater chains said this wasn't true (last summer the r/movietheateremployees subreddit was also filled with accounts of the...challenges of dealing with SoF fans). There was skepticism that the main guy in real life (Tim Ballard) actually helped/saved as much as he claimed. Then later in the movie's run, he was hit with harassment allegations. My feeling was that Angel Studios acquired this generic thriller made in 2018 and saw an opportunity in how they could promote it and to whom, while maintaining plausible deniability with various audiences. Also, I think Pay It Forward isn't cheating but still quite the grift: instead of copying major movie studios that pay Fandango or T-Mobile offering customers "discount codes", Angel just got fans to pony up the discount ticket money themselves. They charged $15 a ticket for Pay It Forward, even when a ticket in that market was way cheaper, and had the faithful convincing themselves it was evangelism! But Angel Studios offers Pay It Forward with all their movies. If they were really cheating the box office so much, wouldn't they always have huge hits? Neither The Shift nor After Death could even cross $15 million.
  21. The Martian is from 2015 and made $630m worldwide. As an awards drama released in 2021, House of Gucci making $153m worldwide is nothing to sneeze at. If HoG had been held to 2022, I think it would have been boosted at least another $50m WW. But it's probably not wrong to say Ridley's movies are more miss than hit these days, at least financially. Napoleon had a decent start for what it is in this era, audiences just didn't like it enough so the legs suffered.
  22. How many of those theaters from 2010 are closed now, have cut hours, or gone all recliner? There are fewer seats to be filled and showtimes to be had, though admittedly that's in response to dropping attendance. Most places I go to have smaller staffs than before Covid so that's less in overhead for theaters.
  23. Maybe but consider how much the filmgoing landscape has changed since 2018, especially for that type of fall awards hopeful. Here's the box office of last year's arthouse/prestige Best Picture nominees (excluding EEAAO as it was a spring release launched without big Oscar aspirations): Women Talking: $9.18m WW ($5.46m DOM) Tár: $29.14m WW ($6.77m DOM) Triangle of Sadness: $32.89m WW ($4.6m DOM) The Fabelmans: $43.28m WW ($17.35m DOM) The Banshees of Inisherin: $52.34m WW ($10.58m DOM) For a film with the content/subject matter of Poor Things to make twice as much as last year's most successful fall prestige-y awards hopeful, as a 2023 movie, is IMO extremely impressive even if it doesn't end up matching The Favourite's admissions.
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