Oscar Means Business
It probably comes as no surprise to most that an Oscar nomination usually means a big bump at the box office. I added “Hurt Locker” to my Netflix queue after it won best picture last year. According to The New York Times Carpetbagger blog, the average best picture winner over the last four years experienced [...]
read moreBig-time TV Events Are On a Roll
Chances are you watched the Oscars Sunday evening. 41.3 million of us did to be exact - a 14 percent increase from the 2009 show and the highest in five years. Was it because the best picture category expanded to 10 nominees to include something for everybody? Was it because one of the night’s key films was the biggest movie [...]
read moreAggressive Expansion
Today Sid Ganis, the president of the MPAA, announced that the best picture category at the OSCARS would double up from the current five nominees to the seemingly self indulgent ten. He says it will make the race “more interesting and less cloistered” and may even make room for a “little one” (read: indie) or [...]
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