Best Picture nominees that are still in theaters won’t have a big impact on the Oscars in 2024. We’ve come a long way from the days when the accolades of an Academy Award nomination excited the public enough to spin box office gold.
TheWrap is the only outlet reporting on this with anything close to honest, so here it is. that math…
poor thing “Growing from 900 theaters to 2,300 locations…[and] It earned an additional $3 million, surpassing New Year’s weekend box office gross of $2.95 million, making it the highest-grossing weekend ever. ”
american fiction “We doubled the number of theaters to 1,702 locations and generated $2.9 million in revenue.”
oppenheimerhas been available on home video for some time, but grossed $1 million in limited IMAX release. zone of interest “It expanded to 313 theaters and made $1 million this weekend.” holdoversis already streaming on Peacock, where it earned $520,000 from 1,267 screens.
And then comes the pandemic nonsense excuse…
[T]The pandemic has significantly changed the landscape of specialty markets. With most movies arriving on home platforms sooner than before 2020, Best Picture winners like The Shape of Water, Moonlight and Parasite steadily built word of mouth through the last quarter of the calendar year. , with an ecosystem that allowed it to sustain its popularity by the first quarter of the following year, as evidenced by the arrival of “The Holdovers” on streaming two months after its limited release in late October. Almost gone.
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The question is whether that bump will have any staying power, or whether it will quickly subside, given that there is less interest in the Oscars than there was even five years ago. ComScore analyst Paul Dergarabedian thinks numbers for “Poor Things” and “American Fiction” are likely to drop, but the lack of major headliners in February And the remaining candidates believe there is still a chance for word of mouth to spread for these awards.
The problem is not the pandemic. Nor will the theater run period be shortened. If so, barbie It wouldn’t have made $1.5 billion worldwide.
What has changed is that Oscar has lost touch with ordinary people. There was a time when an Oscar nomination could turn a little divorce drama into something like 1979. highest box office collection movie. Those of us who love movies run out to see the Oscar nominees, watch the TV broadcast, and choose who to root for. We trusted Oscar back then.
For movie buffs like me, the Oscars were the Super Bowl.
No more.
The Oscars have no meaning to the average person. There are many reasons for this. nomadland (2020), parasite (2019), water shape (2017), moonlight (2016), birdman (2014), the artist (2011), slumdog millionaire (2008), crash (2004), Everything at once, wherever you are (2022), and coda (2021).
No one saw that shit (well, it was fun) nomadland).
The Populist Film Academy became the Independent Spirit Awards through Berkeley’s Faculty Lounge.
In my house, the Oscars serve as a warning to avoid boring movies full of gay sex, ego, preening, and politics.
The Oscar brand is over. A movie nominated for an Oscar is like receiving support from Mitt Romney for Republicans, a sign to shop elsewhere. Sure, he might end up with some 2024 candidates. Holdovers, Oppenheimerand American fiction — But the days of In need of I’m done seeing them now. My time is precious and I have so many great movies that I want to watch over and over again. And in those movies, the guys don’t kiss each other, no one shames me, and I’m not told what to think.
Burn, Hollywood, burn.
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