The Feed the Queue polls have provided some very interesting results and have typically generated some great selections. I’m going to try to adapt that here to the actual cineplex. This will be a touch harder than the other because they don’t reveal the next week’s schedules until after the current weekend, but people need…
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. The White Ribbon A Single Man The Last Station Sherlock Holmes The Secret of Kells The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The White Ribbon wins and goes into my queue.
The Academy’s second announcement regarding eligible features this year comes for the Documentary Short Subject category. In 2013, the list arrived on Dec. 10. This time, it’s Dec. 20, ten days later. With the Foreign Language Film list only two days behind, it’s hard to extrapolate why this is the case. Based on past years,…
A record 83 countries submitted films this year. The announcement was made earlier this month and I updated the 87th Oscars page, but forgot to post an actual article. Here it is without commentary.
Born December 24, 1906 in Upper Silesia, Germany, now Slaskie, Poland, Franz Wachsmann, later Waxman, pursued his dream of a career in music despite his family’s misgivings, supplementing his piano, harmony and composition lessons with his salary as a bank teller. The young composer found a job arranging music for a popular Berlin jazz band…
Halloween weekend demands a horror film at the top of the box office and that’s precisely what we’re probably going to get. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: Surprisingly, 23 Blast doesn’t look half bad, especially compared to the other two releases. On the specialty side, Laggies would probably be my choice. Peter J. Patrick: Where are…
The end of the year brings the most combative environment for films trying to become Oscar winners. The next four months will be an interesting proving round.