The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today that the Best Picture race is getting bigger. Instead of the traditional five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, AMPAS will now allow ten. The new rule is effective starting this year, meaning films like Up, Star Trek and others may end up being nominated for The Oscars top prize, even though their genres are usually ignored. This could be a shock of the life to The Academy Awards, bringing in new, younger viewers who are rooting on their favorite films.
I don’t know how I feel about this. I agree that The Oscars regularly ignore truly great films (The Dark Knight anybody?) but ten films means we will probably get a few that are probably just filler. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong. I’ll tell you right now that if Up doesn’t get nominated for Best Picture under these new rules then something is truly wrong in the world.
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The Warner Bros. comedy “The Hangover” took in another $33.4 million to remain the top box-office draw for a second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates.
This brings it’s total to $105.4 million after 10 days in theaters making it the summer’s first movie to finish at No. 1 for two weekends in a row.
Disney’s latest hit, the action comedy “Up,” came in a close second again with $30.5 million bringing it’s total gross to $187.2 million.
Debuting at No. 3 with $25 million was Sony’s action remake “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.”The thriller stars Denzel Washington as a dispatcher going toe to toe with John Travolta, a criminal mastermind of a subway hijacking.
Year One and The Proposal will put an end to all this repeat business, but it is slightly saddening to see Eddie Murphy’s “Imagine That” only bring in $5.7 million with a 6th place finish. Pluto Nash, Norbit, and now this major flop,I think it’s time for Eddie to go back to raunchy adult comedy. Delirious or Raw anyone?
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Now I’m not going to sit on my high horse and take a dump on “Up” the 2009 Pixar offering that has now swept the box office 2 weekends in a row. Though I have no plans to ever watch”Up” it was nice to see the R Rated bro comedy “The Hangover” stump the statistics and give “Up” a run for it’s animated money.
I watched “The Hangover” at an advanced screening back in February and I thought it was hilarious aside from casting Mike Epps, so I decided to cash in my proverbial chips and watch “Land of the Lost” and judging from it’s soft third place finish, none of you bothered to join me. You see Will Ferrell and Danny McBride offer every reason to spend $7-10 bucks and watch grown men make asses of themselves for an hour and a half. They don’t disappoint.I went in twice.
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