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I feel they tried too hard to make up for the comparative lack of star power this year in the Best Original Song category by adding extra performances like Eminem (though to be fair, he didn't perform Lose Yourself at the ceremony back when it won). It seems a bit desperate, they should have tried upping the star power in other ways. Bong wants a drink!

Now rooting for the FvF Best Picture upset for the WTFery of it all! Seriously, maybe this means it's not happening for Parasite.

I noticed that during the clips for the category, it's honestly refreshing so I can't hate on this Dern win, even if I liked her better in Little Women last year. Two wins for Ford v Ferrari, did we expect this?

What? Lol, Eminem didn't perform Lose Yourself the year it won so I guess he's making up for that now. This is such a concession that Best Original Song this year doesn't hold a candle to last year's buzz.

Well, that's Cate Blanchett's Emmy...

Really like seeing multiple clips from the acting categories, a welcome break from tradition but I doubt it lasts, awards junkies will complain too much. Laura Dern's birthday is tomorrow!

As a This Is Us fan, you should know it was a storyline on the show once that Chrissy Metz's character was just an OK singer.

Ten years ago, Demi Lovato tweeted that she'd sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl someday and she did it. Seven years ago, Patrick Mahomes tweeted that it must be amazing to be to say, "I'm going to Disney World!" after winning the Super Bowl and this year he was the MVP. The power of speaking things into existence! Little Women is an Oscar winner, yay!

The same way Mendes and 1917 have already won Oscars for Best Picture and Director! https://amp.tmz.com/2020/02/09/sam-mendes-broadway-play-instagram-ad-early-oscars-victory-1917/

At that moment the producers of the telecast were going, "See? That's why we wanted to cut the tech categories from TV!" That was awkward. But the other tech winners were fine with their speeches. It's going to be a long evening for them even if 1917 wins big, the show doesn't start for hours.

They mixed it up a bit last year. The producers of the telecast announced a lot of moronic decisions they had to walk back after the backlash, one of them was initially not inviting back previous year's winners as presenters, hoping to get people with more star power to present the acting categories instead. This went over like a lead balloon with the public and the actors themselves, and in the end, they had Gary Oldman and Allison Janney team up for Best Actor while Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell presented Best Actress. For the other acting categories, it was Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler presenting Supporting Actress, with Charlize Theron and Daniel Craig presenting Supporting Actor. Here are Ans0lo and Eiza Gonzalez presenting both Sound categories to Dunkirk, LOL forever:

Warner got the Cardinals to the Super Bowl (a minor miracle, considering the franchise) but they lost to the Steelers. He did win the ring with the Rams once and got to three Super Bowls in total. I guess they still like him in St. Louis, or are they too bitter about the team leaving? Anyway, this will be faith based and by the producers of I Can Only Imagine:

Queen performed last year and the band themselves weren't actually nominated for anything. Billie has a lot of moody ballads and would be good on an In Memoriam segment. That would be a weird thing to hype like this, though. Maybe she'll just sing Bad Guy, because it was in every other movie trailer/ad last year. The Bond song if it's at least decent (and even if it's not, lol) has a good chance to be nominated, so she can't sing it this year at the Oscars, I wouldn't think...

I was thinking Blake, but who knows how different the script might have been back when Tom Holland was in negotiations. I did like George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman's performances a lot, and many critics praised the effect of the "stars" having cameos essentially while the leads are unknowns, to mimic the effect of how lowly these two guys would have been in comparison to the leadership. And that probably doesn't happen if it's "Peter Parker in the trenches!"

I wonder how this would have been sold with somebody well known in a major role. How much of the one-shot hype was about the virtuoso on display vs. the leads not being very famous, and Universal saying, "Look, it's a World War I movie, we have to sell it somehow"? Not to take away from the impressive technical achievements on display in 1917, though it kind of put such an emphasis on the "gimmick" that it was the primary way some people assessed the movie, both for good and to its detriment. But if they'd had Spidey (or a similar star) to plaster on the posters/trailers, maybe the focus going into the movie might have been a little different?

The director Floria Sigismondi started out in music videos (Marilyn Manson and Bjork, among others) and also directed The Runaways, guessing she's driven much of it.

Lots of movies have reshoots. Maybe there was another ending that tested worse? Though how do you get worse than an F, lol. I think the test screening metrics are slightly different than CinemaScore's.

Though Love Island with a horror twist is also not a bad idea for a movie (some would say the actual thing is a horror show in its own right).... Haven't seen a Fantasy Island rerun or heard a "the plane, the plane" joke in years so I wouldn't expect the under 25 to crowd to know the original show at all. I like the concept of the movie, it just can't really much on nostalgia to bring in an audience.

Very cool, I've never seen the lists broken out between Never #1 on weekends vs. Never #1 on any day, though I've always wondered. It's probably a lot of December releases? My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a pretty rare run even when it was happening. Big multipliers are the best.

At least Universal as a studio isn't averse to repertoire screenings, Cats will get midnight showings for years to come. A Star is Born made $215m and spent its first 4 weekends at #2. It might have been #1 on some weekdays, though IDK if people really count that. My Big Fat Greek Wedding probably topped the chart on some Tuesday but it was the Never #1 king for years and years. Still, Knives Out is having a great run, I liked it a lot but wouldn't have expected the staying power to be this strong in our current "it can wait for streaming" climate. Having a good laugh reading the Twitter comments about The Turning's ending.

Now that Best Picture looks like a showdown between 1917 and Parasite, I would lowkey kind of love for Joker to swoop in and take it. Part of Twitter would be gnashing their teeth and burning everything to the ground while the other would be SO confused by what Bradley Cooper has to do with anything...