Mark Harris discovers that Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games is the first film to top annual box office in 40 years, since The Exorcist. These numbers have changed. I was watching the box office at the end of the year to see if that would turn out to be true. The last time I checked BoxOfficemojo.com, Iron Man 3 had topped the year’s box office. But now, the records show it was Catching Fire. That is an incredible stat.
Ryan Casselman’s 2023 Best Picture Ballot Experiment Lands
Since 2018, our friend Ryan Casselman has been doing an annual experiment where he polls his film industry friends on...