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The Oscar Nominations

The Oscar Nominations

Cca

“So we have postponed the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards for at least six weeks, in the hope that in late February or March our honorees and our studio friends will be safer at our event and conditions will have improved enough for our awards show to be a true celebration of the finest film and television achievements of 2021 without the cloud of health and safety concerns spoiling the fun… We will be moving our voting dates, too, to be consistent with our tradition of having the final round voting in the days just before our awards ceremony.  We expect to announce these dates shortly, but final voting for the upcoming awards will not take place before mid-February at the earliest.”

Critics Choice Awards Spread It Out To The Expected Group of Titles

Critics Choice Awards Spread It Around Expected Titles

Exploring West Side Story’s Box Office

Exploring West Side Story’s Box Office

Universal Simplifies The Peacock Tale… Every Movie In 45 Days (Except Jurassic Park)

Universal Simplifies The Peacock Tale… Every Movie In 45 Days (Except Jurassic Park)

Paramount+ Is Trying To Bring The Cable Grid To The On-Demand Streaming Platform

TVMoJoe Delivers Another First Release Piece
Paramount+ Wants To Impose Cable Grid On The On-Demand Streaming Platform

Sundance 2022 Lines Up

Sundance Announces 2022 line-up

Vulture Chews on the Sundance Schedule

Vulture Chews on the Sundance Schedule

James Rocchi

James Rocchi Was 53

BYO ArcLight Cinemas

BYO ArcLight Cinemas

NYT Ronan

“Farrow may be the most famous investigative reporter in America, a rare celebrity-journalist who followed the opposite path of most in the profession: He began as a boy-wonder talk show host and worked his way downward to the coal face of hard investigative reporting… His reporting can be misleading but he does not make things up. His work, though, reveals the weakness of a kind of resistance journalism that has thrived in the age of Trump: That if reporters swim ably along with the tides of social media and produce damaging reporting about public figures most disliked by the loudest voices, the old rules of fairness and open-mindedness can seem more like impediments than essential journalistic imperatives.”
Ben Smith Has A Monday Morning Bite Of Ronan Farrow

Anne Thompson Cheers On An End To Theatrical Exhibition

“Theater owners will fight to the death to keep their exclusive 90-day window, but why can’t studios move poor theatrical performers to another platform right away, and extend the on-screen life of the ones that play? The exhibitors’ argument: Exclusivity is the only way moviegoers will keep coming to theaters… If the studios and theaters were still aligned, the whole film industry picture would be very different. The theaters would not be abandoned and marooned, with only one way to make a living. Studios and theaters would have long shared the same ecosystem, reading data and innovating best practices for the ideal ways, times, and platforms to reach the consumer.”
Anne Thompson Cheers On An End To Theatrical Exhibition

T/F Senses of Cinema

“It’s impossible to think about the 2020 True/False Film Festival outside of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which really only began to reveal its initial grasp on American life during the week of the festival.”
The Easily Prevented Frame Of Every Article With Minimal Editing Rears Its Shaggy Lede

BYOB 10 March 2020

Ricky Gervais Opening Monolog: Transcript

Ricky Gervais Opening Transcript

“If ISIS started a streaming service you’d call your agent, wouldn’t you?”

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BYOB 2020 Has Arrived

Sundance Institute Stakes Claim

Sundance Institute Press Inclusion Initiative Stakes Claim: 63% of the entire 2019 Sundance Film Festival press corps were individuals who were not heterosexual, able-bodied, cisgender white men.”