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Both.

Serenity is gonna flop really hard next weekend. A thriller starring two big name Oscar winners and hardly anyone even knows it exists.

If the movie isn’t playing in the Broward area it’s not that big of a deal. Most people can make the trip to the Palm Beach County area where the theaters are much nicer anyway. Although I’m guessing it’ll just be the city of Parkland that doesn’t get the movie.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? would definitely make the Overlooked Movie category if it wasn’t set at $5M (the only movie’s I’ve seen from this year so far that qualify for there are Thoroughbreds and Ben is Back, both also movies that should’ve received more attention than they did FYI). Shame hardly anyone saw it at all, not just here. McCarthy and Grant will definitely be making my ballot.

This year is probably the least exciting race in years given some of the films in contention (Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, Vice - none of which will be making my BOFFY ballot in any form other than Bale in Actor) have no business being mentioned among the best of the year. Gonna be the weakest lineup since the expansion happened a decade ago IMO. Hopefully the announcement of the nominees is less messy than it’s been the past few years.

We should also nominate Julie Andrews the racist kraken for Best Villain while we’re at it.

Figured might as well get the thread ready for Tuesday. Will update with all the nominees when they have been announced. @Spagspiria @aabattery you can finally unpin the thread for last year’s nominees and pin this one at the top please!

Same. Now we’ll just have to wait and see what kind of legs it has. Could miss $100M at this point.

One of the highlights of seeing Eighth Grade in theaters was this grandma saying “oh no” out loud several points during the truth or dare scene in the car. Still a great movie though! Elsie Fisher’s BOFFY nomination needs to happen.

This was made in mid-2017 for a release in May last year. At this point Annapurna is starting to recall the last days of The Weinstein Company with the constant moving around of their movies.

Best Hero: Natasha Rothwell in Love, Simon. Category needs to be retired if that doesn’t happen.

This was supposed to open Mother’s Day weekend last year originally. Annapurna is hopeless.

I’m starting to get a feeling that Black Panther is gonna miss the morning of nominations in a big shock. Its awards trajectory has been a bit worse than The Dark Knight’s was a decade ago. Don’t want to imagine the PR nightmare that would unfold if it does.

To be fair his Glass prediction is looking to bomb spectacularly and even things out but then he probably didn’t think it would be a panned movie opening with little enthusiasm like it’s looking to.

Vice is alright. For a movie whose marketing touted “The Untold Story,” it really didn’t have much new to say. Excellent performance from Bale though.