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So, who's winning Best Actor for One Love/Legend/the next BoRhap?

Will it be set in current times or 1970? Adolescent naivete about puberty is fairly timeless, though an inquisitive 11 year old girl now would hopefully get a decent/good sex education by then (IIRC, the story takes place in New Jersey, not some "abstinence only" hotbed) and Google the stuff her friends might be telling her that doesn't sound right. Religion is another big factor in the story, and for a contemporary adaptation the particulars would have to be tweaked. But The Baby Sisters Club show worked surprisingly well as a modern show, so it's not impossible here, just tricky.

It's been measured and Daniel has slightly less screentime than LaKeith, so... Also, Chadwick is very likely to win in lead, so if you can get away with a Supporting placement and also improve your odds for the gold...

Is Glenn finally going to win an Oscar via Zoom for a movie under 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes? LMAO Music, really? The HFPA really could have just let Promising Young Woman be a comedy. Mulligan might just go all the way in Best Actress. She'll probably get the Globe. Who knew voters were eager to make sure Leto isn't a one-nominee wonder? Even Warner Bros didn't seem to think they had an awards contender on their hands... Is it really going to be The Trial of the Chicago 7 as our Best Picture? It feels like a Globes Drama winner, at least.

Watched both, the Wendy movie was good (for Lifetime) but rushed, while the Salt-N-Pepa movie was too long (three hours w/commercial breaks!!) and more obviously limited by its budget. Also, pretending Spinderella was barely part of the group wasn't cute. Lifetime has a Mahalia Jackson movie coming up, too. I wonder if BET is going to open up the purse strings for all the Black music legacy acts who want a biopic but don't rate the major movie studio treatment, or does BET just keep ceding that audience to Lifetime...

Male directors have been falling for their leading ladies since the dawn of Hollywood, so what's good for the gander should be good for the goose, but I'm surprised they'd confirm anything before filming was over. Especially in light of the Shia firing--not that his track record isn't long, no one blinked an eye about him being kicked off a movie, but for it to turn out that the director is dating his replacement... As a director, you just open yourself up to accusations that the maybe the casting switch was not entirely above board, and people are so much harder on women in the public eye to begin with. People online get really worked up now about #PowerDynamics, though Styles being very rich and famous already negates a lot of that, it's not exactly a Sam Taylor Wood/Aaron Johnson situation. If they break up before the movie is out, that's going to be awkward...

Lots of Twitter outrage right now about Minari only being eligible for Foreign Language Film and not Best Drama. The Golden Globes rules don't allow "double dipping"--a movie can only compete in one "Best Picture" sort of category (i.e. a movie can't be in Animated Film and Musical/Comedy, unlike the Oscars, where documentaries/international/animated films can also go for Best Picture). Minari is more than 50 percent not in English, the HFPA's threshold for whether a film is foreign language or not. But of course people don't care about that, they just see a movie happening in the US being viewed as "foreign" when the country doesn't have an official language. So, this ruling is being viewed "America" treating Asian-Americans as the "other", again. Even though the Golden Globes are run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, so the members aren't even American themselves, and it's not like they see being foreign as a bad thing... But I do think, if your movie awards show wants a separate category for movies that (mostly) aren't in English, maybe just call it that. Many countries have multiple languages spoken, so who is to say what is "foreign"?

It will boost the concessions, which the theaters keep and make most of their money on, anyway. Ticket prices vary wildly across the country. I live in a place where some multiplexes had $4.50 to $6.00 matinees for first run movies pre-pandemic, that is a lot less than the ArcLight for example. That Playmobil movie had discount tickets, but it was a promotional thing by the studio eating the costs. When the subscription model started here, there was a question of how much studios would get back per ticket. Are the contracts with the studios and theaters ironclad on a floor for ticket prices? If not, then LOL, gimme some 1920s movie prices. Can't wait for the first chain to say "See all 17* WB movies in theaters for less than 1 month of HBO Max!" Hehehe. *Hasn't one movie already been removed from the 2021 WB schedule and it's only been 2 weeks since the announcement? How many will it be, in the end?

When I saw the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, I thought the most ridiculous thing about it would be the bad Irish accents, but apparently not, LOL.

That Tom Cruise thing that's going to film in space? A movie made in 2050?

Should have learned something from rushing Justice League, WB... Wondering if Nolan ran his statement by Emma Thomas first? She's even milder mannered than he (generally) is. He is a grown man responsible for his own words, but sometimes a partner is the one to get you to calm down and find a better way to put things, before you say something you can't take back.

Tell us how you really feel, Chris... Everybody's mad and wants to get paid (duh):

LMAO, what is this?! It looks like a porn parody, except Lifetime is basic cable network? And there's a trailer: Wut even...

And Popular Film Oscar, while a bad idea, wouldn't have been nearly as consequential as WB putting their entire 2021 slate onto streaming right away. The Oscars change was just about prestige, but this is about money. Imagine if this HBO Max move really has to be walked back. I mean, they will probably try paying up to make these issues go away, but that might not work in every case. It feels like so many entertainment media/Film Twitter types were so eager to declare the death of theatrical that they just glossed over what a desperation move this was from Warner/AT&T and that it might not be well thought out move on their part. The default assumption tends to be that this big corporation must have run some sort of algorithm that made a clear case and this must be a rational, informed decision. Surely a big corporation couldn't have panicked and hastily made a stupid move, right? LOL

Good. I guess the timing is pretty terrible for the royals with the Queen being 94, but you can’t erase the (relatively recent) past. And, really Charles and Camilla should be thanking the Lord the show left out Kanga and has (so far) omitted Tampongate.

Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I mean, you'd think getting the branding straight before launching a major streaming service would be essential, too, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If the stars have been paid up front and there won't be much in the way of residuals and they feel screwed over by WB, what's their incentive to be a team player? And just because a star shows up for the interview, doesn't mean their hearts will be in it, or they'll do a good job in selling what they are there to promote. That's always potentially true for any movie, but you know some of the talent promoting the 2021 WB slate is going to share their thoughts on all this to the reporters who ask, and they will ask. Try getting Eastwood to follow studio talking points. I can also see some stars half-assedly promoting the movie but talking more about themselves and their own side projects instead. It'll be fun to watch, at least.

I don't know if WW84 "would have done some real business" in October but agree the promotional aspect with the stars of WB's 2021 slate is going to be interesting to say the least...

The compensation for Netflix movies is designed to account for the negligible box office. This is why a lot of Netflix movies with big stars are more expensive than what appears onscreen. Many of these blockbusters were made and contracts were signed with backend deals for the top names, most likely. That's going to have to be renegotiated, I'm guessing. I follow some New Zealanders on Instagram, life without Covid there has almost totally gone back to normal, including theatrical moviegoing. China also has huge box office again. Eventually, the rest of the world will get there. This WB move seems extremely shortsighted, but a lot of people seem determined to accelerate the future of streaming and the death of theatrical. Let's see if it works out like they hope...

They can demand all the disclaimers they want, but Charles was really 32 and said "Whatever in love means" right next to 19 year old Diana during their engagement interview. Everybody can see the real video if they want. This show is dramatized, but it was for the other three seasons before this one and there wasn't nearly the same outrage. It must suck for the monarchists that 10 episodes of a Netflix show is erasing 20+ years of positive PR for the future king, and validating why Harry/Meghan fled the country, but oh well. What happened to the stiff upper lip? Never complain, never explain? I guess that doesn't apply when it's Charles and Elizabeth's images taking the hit. The Tories don't come off amazingly this season, either, and they're in power now, so this might explain the government preoccupation with a TV drama vs. Covid or Brexit...

Some of the royal commentators are saying Harry should cancel his Netflix deal in protest of the show and Season 4, especially. Other people are saying, "....maybe he doesn't totally disagree with the portrayal?" Seeing a lot "These people are awful, no wonder Harry took Meghan and the baby and ran the hell away!" comments about S4. Emma Corrin is really nailing the Shy Di side and I hope she wins all the awards. Elizabeth Debicki will be an adjustment next season, but I can see her as the more hardened Diana in her thirties. McNulty as Charles next year: they have their work cut out for them. Though maybe Dominic West is doing his part in his personal life these days to seem more convincing in the role.

Did the play have any leads, then? I agree, though, Viola is probably going to stay in Best Actress.

The Ma Rainey's reactions drop and the "lead or supporting" debates are about Viola? Plot twist! I think she might stay in lead despite the screentime. She's won an Oscar already, there's a history of Black women getting "demoted" to the Supporting category and she'll want the Best Actress prestige.

Re: Katie Holmes, remember she spent the Batman Begins PR tour promoting TomKat and acting generally weird, that probably didn't impress Nolan/WB. Who knows what the truth was, but Cruise had a reputation for being controlling. Katie was fine as Rachel, but it wasn’t some all-time performance. Studios weren't as in lockstep about signing stars to multi-movie deals from the first movie in the aughts, not that it never happened, but it wasn't standard as it is now. The whole Nolan trilogy/timeline is a lot looser than the MCU model. Anyway, all of that to say everyone is probably a bit right: the original Dark Knight plans likely included Katie, but circumstances changed and neither side cared enough to make a return happen or wanted a big public drama over it. Fantastic Beasts, whoa, Depp is out? Can't wait for JKR to weigh in! (WB is soooo praying she does not).

Maria Bakalova for Borat 2? Comedic performances have better odds in the Supporting categories anyway, and this is not a normal year.