‘The Hurt Locker’ wins best picture at Oscars…
https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=news&articleid=VR1118016173&cs=1
Oscars shmoscars: Transformers 2 ‘wins’ worst-movie Razzie
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was the big “winner”-not at the Oscars, which are handed out tonight-but at the Razzies, otherwise known as the 30th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards, which recognize the worst movies of the year…
Be sure to check out Sandra Bullock’s Razzie acceptance speech.
‘ALICE’ IS A MONSTER! $116.3M Blows Past ‘Avatar’ For Biggest Domestic 3D Bow
Disney’s Alice In Wonderland is a monster hit despite blowing past its budget and bringing back mediocre reviews. It clearly becomes the biggest 3D bow ever and the best March release ever…
https://www.deadline.com/2010/03/100m-weekend-for-alice-in-wonderland/
Indies Bested Majors (Again) In Oscar Wins
In case you weren’t keeping score, indies outpaced majors at last night’s Oscars. The Hurt Locker was the 18th indie to win Best Oscar in past 30 years…
https://www.deadline.com/2010/03/indies-bested-majors-again-in-oscar-wins/
Why Did Online Video Consumption Spike in 2009?
If you want to get a sense of how significant an inflection year 2009 was for online video, have a look at the chart…
MindScans Wraps Production
After 17 months and a little over $1000, Alliance Digital Studios’ MindScans wraps production. More to come…
Can the Internet Save Indie Film?
YouTube’s new rentals service, which launched by offering five Sundance films for $3.99 each, drew just over a thousand paying customers nationally – not enough to shift traditional film distribution paradigms or overshadow Steve Jobs – but this humble beginning masks the opportunity for YouTube and for today’s aspiring independent screenwriters, directors and producers…
https://www.thewrap.com/blog-entry/can-internet-save-indie-film-14461
Now Warner Bros Settles With Redbox
One by one, Hollywood studios are reluctantly doing business with Red Box and starting partnerships. (Fox and Universal still have lawsuits pending… Paramount and others have made deals.) The latest is Warner Bros…
https://www.deadline.com/hollywood/now-warner-bros-settles-with-redbox/
Tom Cruise and ‘M:I4’ — the new reality of film deals
The ‘Mission: Impossible’ star is the latest actor to see his share of box-office receipts scaled back to reflect the film industry’s new economic realities…
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cruise15-2010feb15,0,1129206.story
BOX OFFICE LOVEFEST: ‘Valentine’s Day’ Smashes All Prez Weekend Records With $65M Four-Day Total; #2 ‘Percy Jackson’ Strengthens; #3 ‘Wolfman’ Weakens
Once again, moviegoers showed that they wanted whatever Hollywood was giving them, no matter what critics were telling them about the 3 very different genre films that opened Friday through Monday. This turned into the highest grossing U.S. Presidents Weekend ever with a 4-day total estimated at $230 million, besting the previous record of $220M set last year.