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Michael Cieply: Deal Anxiety – Why The Oscar Bump Isn’t Enough
We've raised a cheer for the March 10 Oscar broadcast's audience bump, up 4 percent, to 19.5 million viewers from 18.8 million a year ago. The total should stretch toward 21 million when digital viewers over seven days are finally added in. (Social media…
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Michael Cieply: Oscar Sunday Is OK, But Monday Is Much Better
Truth be told, I'm not crazy about Oscar night. The shoes pinch. Security's a bother. All the red-carpet nattering unnerves me.
And watching at home isn't much better. Who really wants to turn on the television at 5 — oops, make that 4 — o'clock on an…
Michael Cieply: With A BAFTA Win, ‘American Fiction’ Gets Points For Facing What Frets Us
I share my colleague Pete Hammond's fascination with Cord Jefferson's BAFTA win for his screenplay adaptation, American Fiction. It is no small thing for a self-consciously American story to win a very British award against competition as formidable as Christopher Nolan, especially for a debut…
Michael Cieply: Why Official Oscar Night Fun Doesn’t Come Cheap
In an idle moment, I kinda, sorta, half-thought (well, less than half, maybe a third) that it might be fun to leave the pros behind and spend March 10, Academy Awards night, with some real fans at the annual "one-of-a-kind" viewing party at the Academy…
Michael Cieply: What To Think About What’s Left Of The Los Angeles Times?
The Los Angeles Times came weather-wrapped Thursday morning. There was more plastic than paper, or so it seemed. There wasn't even enough paper, apparently, to run a proper obituary for Chuck Philips, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Times reporter who died last month.
Details about Chuck's passing…
Michael Cieply: Dumb Snubs, Diversity Watch, Political Strife – A Practically Perfect Oscar Season
It's a fact of life, people love the Oscars most when the film Academy or its members are doing something dumb. Slapping a host. Naming the wrong winner. Singing about bare breasts. That sort of thing.
So it was a good week for the March 10 Academy Awards show. The colossally un-smart snubs of Margot…
Michael Cieply: On A Thin Film Schedule, There’s Room For Another ‘People’s Hit’
I'm trying to stay optimistic. It takes some effort, as just about everyone seems to think the film business is a mess–strike-thinned schedule, cultural chaos, streaming models in flux. But, hey, the Golden Globes audience was up by half, never mind critical reaction to the show. There are still signs of…
Michael Cieply: Party Like It’s 1988, People Clearly Want Some Laughs From The Movies (And The Globes)
Last week, I had another very occasional lunch with a friend who was a power in indie film when that meant something. We worked through the usual stuff—aches and pains, dead colleagues, favorite restaurants closed. Then came that increasingly difficult movie question: "Seen anything you liked?"
The…
Michael Cieply: Increasingly Top-Heavy, The Movie Box Office Needs A Very Careful Trim
As my colleague Anthony D'Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024.
So here's question worth pondering: Would the film industry be healthier if most of that pruning occurred at the very…
Michael Cieply: ‘Hollywoodland’ And The Jews, A Museum Exhibit We Could Use Right Now
Is it too early for a New Year's wish? Well, I'm going to make one anyway.
I wish the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures would hurry up its long-promised Hollywoodland exhibition.
Officially titled Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, the exhibit is intended, finally…
In A Roadshow Meeting, The Film Academy Caught A Question About Dues
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences turned its annual membership meeting into a roadshow on Saturday morning, convening at the Lucasfilm offices in San Francisco and streaming on its members-only website.
By and large, the proceedings were routine, as chief executive Bill Kramer and…
Investment Income & Museum Expense Loom Large In AMPAS Financial Report
A big swing in investment income — from a $45 million loss in fiscal 2022 to a $38.9 million gain in fiscal 2023 — boosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a year that brought the full annual cost of its museum operation into focus for the first time.
According to a financial report…
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