"You boys ain't right."
Posted on 01/10/2006 9:31:10 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Oscar Indicators
James Hirsen, NewsMax.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its choice of host for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. It's one of today's foremost wisecrackers, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Jon Stewart.
Stewart apparently landed the Oscar gig after Billy Crystal turned it down citing scheduling conflicts.
In a press release announcing the Academy's selection, Stewart lampooned the fact that he was second fiddle, describing it as "another sad attempt to smoke out Billy Crystal."
The comic already has some award show experience under his belt, having served as host for the Grammy Awards in 2001 and 2002.
Evidently, he intends to take a week off from his "Daily Show" duties to work with his writers, who will most likely assist him in preparing the requisite number of Bush-bashing jokes.
Meanwhile the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have announced some nominations of their own. This is significant in that their selections tend to serve as predictors of Best Picture Academy Awards. In fact, no movie has ever won an Oscar for Best Picture without first having been nominated by at least one of these two groups.
If the PGA/WGA forecasting pattern holds true, "Munich," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Match Point" are already out of the running.
When the PGA and the WGA ignore films, arrows point toward losses, while conversely, films that are nominated by both groups can take on front-runner status.
In this awards cycle, movies nominated by both groups include "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Crash."
"Capote" also squeaked out a win for Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) after six ballot rounds. Based on the almost universal raves given by critics to "Brokeback Mountain," one might have expected the film to win the NSFC Best Picture award in a landslide. But the critics group snubbed the movie, with the exception of giving a Best Actor nod to Heath Ledger.
Regarding the actors and directors unions, the controversial film was the nomination leader. It earned four Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations and a Directors Guild of America (DGA) nomination for Ang Lee for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, a precursor for a Best Director Oscar.
Other DGA nominees include George Clooney for "Good Night, and Good Luck," Paul Haggis for "Crash," Bennett Miller for "Capote" and Steven Spielberg for "Munich."
As an interesting side note, the online gambling sites have "Brokeback" as the clear betting favorite.
We'll find out who wins the bets and the statuettes on March 5.
Yup - anything that promotes homosexuality will be a winner in Hollywood.
Perhaps, but I'm not convinced Brokeback does. ...
Not a very positive image promoted by the movie.
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Anyone have the numbers on how much Barebum Mounters is making? It really isn't making too many waves up here in Canada that I've heard.
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SEE HERE :
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/id=brokebackmountain.htm
The production budget was a mere $14 M ( who knows what the Marketing budget was ? ).
Thus far, worldwide, it has grossed $22 M.
Someone in this thread mentioned that if you want to break even, the rule of thumb figure is you have to gross TWICE your production budget.
Hence, Brokeback Mountain is still in the red based on this rule of thumb.
But this is what the OSCARS will be trying to change by adding "MOMENTUM" to it with their agenda driven awards.
NARNIA, with a production budget of $180 M has already made a humungous profit worldwide --- $475 M ( and going ).
KING KONG, with a production budget of $207 M also has made a profit worldwide at : $465 M ( still short of Narnia ).
"You boys ain't right."
Well if ratings are an indication, the Oscars are among the highest rated TV shows of the year as a general rule. And Oscar winning films always experience a bump at the Box Office. The last Best Picture winner that an really be called a flop was The Last Emperor.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPOSITORY ROLE : JAKE DRILLINHOLE.
The top ten movies in the US for the weekend of 1/6/2006:
Rank/Previous Rank, Movie, Gross $Millions, %Change from Previous week
1/NA - Hostel, $19.5, N/A
2/1 - Narnia, $15.6, -39%
3/2 - King Kong, $12.6 -49%
4/3 - Fund with Dick and Jane, $11.9, -27%
5/4 - Cheaper by the Dozen 2, $8.4, -41%
6/10 - Munich, $7.5, +59%
7/7 - Memoirs of a Geisha, $6.1, -21%
8/14 - Brokeback Mountain, $5.726, +58%
9/5 - Rumor Has It, $5.702, -39%
10/6 - The Family Stone, $4.6, -43%
from: http://www.the-numbers.com/charts/thisweek.html
We are not talking about Shakespere, we are talking about left-biased Hollywierd. You can believe their fiction about their intentions of their fiction at your own peril. You need only listen to the script writer of Munich to know how he believes in the "truth" of his fiction and his hope that Israel will see the error of its ways.
It is not a simple matter of "ideological intent". The left's approach to history is pure religion based on their own myths. One writer or another may attempt to give some preference to one person, or set of persons, or one event or set of events to lift up someone or something they favor and/or to downplay, soften, reduce the exposition of one person or set of persons or one event or set of events to the detriment of someone or something they do not favor. The left invents facts, motives, personal thoughts, personal attitudes, personal conclusions in historical figures to produce a wholely non-factual overall view of the history they portray. They can say what they want about, how "it is only 'fiction', but they do not believe it is "fiction" it is the truth as they believe it - facts or no facts and unlike most works of fiction it is their clear intent that you believe their claims of "fiction" are just a wink and a nod, and accept that fiction as gospel truth.
Huh? They've been losing viewership for years.
Even with the lowered ratings its almost always in top several shows of the year.
I would like to see Pierce Brosnan get it for "The Matador" but comic performances rarely win. A shame, as he is great in that film.
It is not divination. I have read the published statements they have made about their own thoughts and intentions of their work.
All the absurd left-wing cultural and historical flix will be nominated.
The best movies last year were "Narnia" and "Capote"...which is absolutely brilliant! There's a teeny, tiny movie called "Junebug" that is truly a treasure. A supporting actress named Amy Adams will knock your socks off. If she isn't nominated...God is on vacation.
The Clooney movies will sweep.
It is not a matter of what I know, or what you know, or the mere methods of writing "fiction". It is a matter of the pure, and lie-based intent of political Hollywood. You would prefer that the general populace not even understand that pure politica intent was a motive and often for Marxist political purpose. Of course what they do in film is not much different than what they do in the classroom.
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