Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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Below are our face-offs for this week. Choose the better winner in each category. For more information on how the game works, click here.
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 2005 In our eleventh pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Original Screenplay. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Original Screenplay slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (December 20, 2020) Original (December 27, 2020) New Poster (#2) Release Date: January 1, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.” Poster Rating: D / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) This close-up…
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Page Revisions: (December 20, 2020) Original Release Date: January 12, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, we see his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression by seeking advice from Dr. Bird – an imaginary pigeon therapist – in the wake of his sister’s…
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Page Revisions: (December 20, 2020) Original Release Date: January 15, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for…
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Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. As we look back at the shambles of the American film scene for the…
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Born Francisco Rosario Capra on May 18, 1897 in Bisacquino, Sicily and raised in Los Angeles from the age of six, the future President of both AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and the DGA (Directors Guild of America) would become a naturalized American citizen in 1920 at which time he legally…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Dec. 25-27, 2020)
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Page Revisions: (December 20, 2020) Original Release Date: January 8, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.” Poster Rating: C / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) It…
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Page Revisions: (December 20, 2020) Original (October 17, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Release Date (changed from 1.15.21) (January 2, 2022) New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: January 7, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal…
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Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. January 22, 2021 The Marksman Premise: From IMDb: “A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S.” Box Office Prospects: $20 M Expectations: Uncertain. The pandemic still controls the box…
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Every other major release has either been moved entirely onto a streaming service or into 2021. Wonder Woman 1984 is the only film attempting a day-and-date release with HBO Max streaming it the same day as it releases to theaters. The box office will obviously be depressed, but there’s no reason to think it won’t…
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