Jimmy Fallon, freshest of late late night talk show hosts, is in talks to host the 85th Academy Awards. ABC is reportedly raising objections because Fallon has the audacity to be brilliant on a program not owned by ABC. The network has no authority in choice of Oscar host so what good can come of Disney/ABC kicking up a stink? The LATimes has details. ABC is owned by...
In its ongoing effort to eliminate everything remotely fun or exciting from the Oscars, the Academy bans Sacha Baron Cohen from attending. The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen‘s tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even though he is one of the stars from Hugo, Paramount’s...
Breaking news from the Department of Obvious Observations. The LATimes has dug deep and found the facts to back up what we’ve known for years: ”Oscar voters overwhelmingly white, male. Media age is 62. A Los Angeles Times study found that academy voters are markedly less diverse than the moviegoing public, and even more monolithic than many in the film industry...
A few movie-writers have kicked over a hornet’s nest this week by spreading the impression that Rooney Mara wasn’t showing enough enthusiasm and deference to suit them. The perception seeped out like black mold, aggravating the fungus allergies the Twitterverse, so before long the strings of snot were blown far and wide. Once a story like that takes hold, it’s not...
I have no beef against Nikki Finke, like many do. In fact, I’ve always admired her throughout the years for her tenacity and fortitude forging a path in a mostly male dominated industry. But something went a little funny when I started seeing more and more news breaks coming from the Motion Picture Academy to Deadline exclusively. The Academy then releases a pointless,...
Thanks to this essay by Mark Harris at Grantland.com. I feel a lot less like a fuming hothead for suggesting earlier that Brett Ratner’s behavior shouldn’t be pardoned. …at a Los Angeles Q&A after a screening of Tower Heist, the film’s director Brett Ratner dismissed a question about his process by saying, “Rehearsing is for fags.” Since Ratner...