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Michael Cieply: By The Numbers, Actors Count Much Less In The Oscar Voting Pool
As actors continue to struggle in negotiations with the entertainment companies, it's probably worth noting a point that doesn't get advertised much.
That is, performers—living, breathing human beings who appear on movie screens—are far less influential than they were just a few short years ago at…
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Story Arc:
SAG-AFTRA Strike
October 26, 2023
October 26, 2023
October 18, 2023
Michael Cieply: Suddenly, This Looks Like The Long-Awaited Oscar Comeback Year
The writers have settled. Actors and companies return to the table this week. The awards season is saved (almost, we hope).
This could finally be it. Do we dare even say it? The year of The Great Oscar Comeback.
Everyone with a stake in the Academy Awards has watched with chagrin as the Oscar…
Michael Cieply: As Talks Resume, The Collateral Strike Damage Piles Up
This week, the big story is a presumed return to talks between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the striking Writers Guild of America. May things go well.
But last week's still lingering narrative — apart from guild collisions with Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher — is all…
Michael Cieply: An Old Book And Some Thoughts About De Niro’s Dual-Role ‘Wise Guys’
Everyone’s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another.
Last Saturday, I picked up a slightly tattered copy of an old crime biography, Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld, at one of those sidewalk libraries.
Published in 1974, the year after…
Michael Cieply: Oscar Viewership And Other Tidbits From The Academy Bond Documents
You can usually count on bond disclosure documents–assuming good eyesight and infinite patience–for fresh tidbits about the inner workings of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the latest round is no exception.
On Friday morning, the Academy posted on the Electronic Municipal…
The Film Academy Tidies Up Its Finances With Some Replacement Bonds
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is once again tidying up its finances with a bond offering.
This time around, the Academy has posted notice on the Electronic Municipal Market Access website of 18 separate issues with total face value of about $127 million, one issue maturing each year…
Michael Cieply: Warnings Are Up For A Stormy Film Awards Season
Whoa, here it comes, just like Hurricane Hilary, an off-kilter, sidewinder of a movie awards season that's tearing up the rule book even before it starts.
Thanks to El Niño, unholy weather is almost a given. Look for ceremonies that look a lot like 2010, when shivering assistants sheltered the rich…
Story Arc:
Writers Guild Strike
September 30, 2023
September 29, 2023
September 27, 2023
Academy Will Now Let Films Bypass Inclusion Report By Opting Out Of Best Picture Race
Thanks to a quiet change in enforcement protocols, feature films entered in this year's Academy Awards contest will be able to avoid reporting gender, race and disability data required by new inclusion standards governing Best Picture contenders simply by opting out of contention for the top…
Michael Cieply: In A Color-Coded World, Films Claim Their Place On The Palette
The late film executive Bingham Ray, God bless him, once (over lunch at Orso, in 2009) pointed out something so obvious I had completely missed it. The wiliest movie marketers, explained Ray, try to own a color scheme.
Juno, for instance, had orange stripes with distinctive green highlights. Little Mi…
Michael Cieply: Great Movie Weekend. What Else Have You Got?
It was a magnificent movie weekend. Barbie, Oppenheimer, Sound of Freedom. All hits, a blowout!
So what else have you got?
The question sounds obnoxious, like its near-cousin, the always infuriating: "What have you done for me lately?"
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Michael Cieply: Slouching Towards Hollywood, One Rough Beast Of A Season
What was it W. B. Yeats wrote, that line Joan Didion lifted and twisted in her essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," about West Coast chaos in 1967? Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
That's how it felt on Thursday, a few minutes before lunch with some seasoned film executive-friends at the…
Story Arc:
SAG-AFTRA Strike
October 26, 2023
October 26, 2023
October 18, 2023
Michael Cieply: Two Words For The Late Larry Turman — Thank You
I have just two words for producer Lawrence Turman, who died Saturday at 96. "Thank you."
Way back in 1968, Larry Turman, who at the time had much bigger things on his mind, managed to change my life. I was then growing up in the working-class suburbs of Detroit. A garage band of which I was the…
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