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Oppenheimer just won Best Picture at the Producers Guild awards. Massive several weekends in a row for this movie at DGA, BAFTA, SAG, and PGA.

Huge night for Cillian Murphy & Lily Gladstone. Another big night for Oppenheimer in general.

Nolan won Directors Guild, which has led to a Best Director Oscar 90% of the time in 75 years. Hopefully Nolan is not in the 10% group, lol

Nolan won Best Director at the Directors Guild Awards tonight. Big step on the way to potentially winning Best Director at the Oscars.

Mendes won for American Beauty. Not surprised with 1917 that they chose a first time winner over him.

Perceived “frontrunner” status can lead to people voting for other movies since they figure Oppy will have plenty of support from other voters. I don’t mind if that happens in Best Picture, but I’m hoping it doesn’t happen to Nolan in the Best Director category.

Nah. Maybe 5-7 wins. Unlikely to be more than 7.

It's hard to imagine Universal letting him slip through their fingers after the Oppenheimer success. Also hard to imagine the cheapskate Zaslav throwing around extra money at Warner Brothers to outbid Universal on future Nolan projects.

Hey now, let's not talk about snubbing Nolan. He got screwed pretty bad for almost 20 years with zero nominations in the Director category. Even though it's trending a more positive way for him this year, I still expect the Academy to pull the rug out from under him at the last minute. Lol I'll say for Gerwig, at least she got nominated with Lady Bird. She was only 34 at the time. Pretty amazing honor at a young age. She & her husband very well might win the Adapted Screenplay Oscar, which is an awesome deal for any movie...but especially for a summer blockbuster instead of one of the artsy fartsy type of movies.

Maybe. They could also give it a Screenplay Oscar, which is a pretty awesome reward for any movie.

I know the media narrative, but in reality Cooper is not any more overdue than Giamatti or Murphy. Those 2 guys have been great actors for a long time with zero Oscars to show for it.

I can only speak for myself here. I did not leave the TV on CBS or FOX when those afternoon games were over. I switched to NBC in order to watch the Buffalo & Miami football game. I would imagine a ton of NFL fans did the same thing, meaning I am not sure how much of a boost the afternoon game on CBS provided to the Golden Globes. I assume most of the ratings boost is from the extra viewers who wanted to see the result for Taylor Swift & Barbie nominations.

Just looked it up. Social Network won pretty big at the Golden Globes: Best Drama film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Score. Seems like a pretty good example of how the Golden Globes don't really mean much on the road to the Oscars.

I would have given it to Leo for The Aviator or The Departed. Wall Street performance was great too, but seemed like he should have gotten it much earlier. I think the poster child for this deal is Al Pacino with Scent of a Woman. Knowing how incredible his performances were in the first two Godfather movies, it's unbelievable to think of him winning an Oscar for anything in the 1990's.

How about Social Network? I seem to remember that movie swept all kinds of awards but then got snubbed pretty hard at the Oscars.

Pretty good numbers for Wonka.

If it’s not superhero franchise movies, it is another form of franchise movies dominating Hollywood in the 2000’s and beyond. Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games, Star Wars, Transformers, LOTR/Hobbit, Disney animated remakes, etc. You gave a great example with True Lies. Paramount had some big time success in the 1990’s with several one-off movies: Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and Titanic. Big success at the box office, big success at the Oscars. It’s sad how everything has played out in more recent years.

It is sad that Hollywood has become so obsessed with franchises and brands. As recently as the 1990’s you could be a profitable studio with “one off” movies instead of franchises.

Warner & Paramount combined are less than $40 billion market cap. Chump change for Comcast/Universal, the rumored buyer for Warner Brothers.

Then Comcast & whoever else should sue regulators for allowing Disney to buy a ton of major brands recently (PIXAR, Marvel, Lucasfilm/Star Wars, and 20th Century Fox). Break up Disney if we are going down the path of blocking other mergers from happening.

If Comcast buys Warner, he can play with both Universal & Warner under the same roof. Lol

It’s just one movie though. I have a large, new theater near me that’s pretty empty 90% of the time. Expecting it to eventually shutdown.

Budget should have been $50M instead of $200M. It’s doable. This movie did have COVID problems, though I doubt they can blame COVID for adding $150M to the budget.

61% drop for Killers of the Flower Moon. Ouch!

Makes sense. Video games are extremely popular. Surprised they have not figured out a way in earlier years to really take advantage of that in the movie business.