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The Making of ‘Forrest Gump’

March 18, 2026March 17, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1990s Cinema, Academy Awards, boomer nostalgia, columbia pictures, eric roth, Forrest Gump, michael conner humphreys, on the set of forrest gump, oscars 1994, Paramount Pictures, philadelphia film, Pulp Fiction, Robert Zemeckis, Sally Field, steve starkey, Tom Hanks, university press of kentucky, Warner Bros., winston groom

Steve Starkey’s production story is a nostalgia tale within a nostalgia tale

Everything You Need to Know for the Oscars Tonight

March 15, 2026March 15, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Academy Awards, arthouse cinema, awards preview, Awards Season, Best Picture, Book and Film Globe, Bugonia, Chloé Zhao, cinema, Emma Stone, Film Awards, film criticism, film industry, genre film, Hamnet, Hollywood, independent film, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, movie awards, Oscars, Oscars 2026, Paul Mescal, Ryan Coogler, Sinners, Yorgos Lanthimos

Make Book and Film Globe your Academy Companion

Tips for Winning Bar Bets About Paramount, Warner Brothers, and Netflix

February 18, 2026February 18, 2026 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 45-day theatrical window, Academy Awards, Apple Original Films, Argo, Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Best Picture, box office records, Burbank, cable television revenue, Casablanca, CBS, CODA, Comedy Central, corporate debt, corporate takeover bid, David Ellison, DC Studios, entertainment finance, F1 film, film industry economics, Frankenstein, HBO, Hollywood studios, Hollywood studios history, inside out 2, Larry Ellison, Los Gatos, market capitalization, Max, media consolidation, media mergers, Melrose Avenue, My Fair Lady, Netflix, Nickelodeon, One Battle After Another, Oscar history, Paramount global, Paramount Skydance, Roma, Silicon Valley, Sinners, Skydance Media, Spider-Man: No Way Home, streaming distribution, streaming vs theatrical, streaming wars, Ted Sarandos, The Force Awakens, The Jazz Singer, The Life of Emile Zola, Theatrical window, Titanic, top grossing films, Train Dreams, video on demand, Warner Bros. Discovery, Wings

As WBD goes back on the sale aisle, here are some non-trivial facts about the companies in the drama

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Horror Has Oscar Judges on the Edge of Their Seats

January 27, 2026February 4, 2026 Jacob Harper 0 Comments A24, Academy Awards, Alex Garland, Amy Madigan, Ari Aster, Awards Season, Black Swan, body horror, Bugonia, Colette, Coralie Fargeat, Delroy Lindo, Elevated Horror, Emilie Blichfeldt, Frankenstein, Get Out, Guillermo del Toro, Hellraiser, Hereditary, Horror Genre, Horror History, Horror Oscars, Jacob Elordi, Jordan Peele, Michael B. Jordan, Midsommar, monster movies, Nosferatu, Oscar Nominations, Oscars 2025, Paranormal Activity, Political Horror, REC, Ryan Coogler, Saw, Serial Killer Films, Shelley Mary, Silence of the Lambs, Sinners, Social Commentary Horror, The Babadook, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Exorcist, The Sixth Sense, The Substance, The Ugly Stepsister, The Witch, Toni Collette, Torture Porn, Weapons, White Supremacist Vampires, Y2K Horror, Zach Cregger

Could the tide finally be turning on the Academy’s longtime bias against the genre?

The Year AI Began To Shape Hollywood

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 2023 actors strike, Academy Awards, Adrien Brody, AI, AI ethics, AI filmmaking, artificial intelligence, Bob Iger, ChatGPT, collective bargaining, copyright, David Ellison, digital performers, Disney, Emilia Perez, Fantasia, Felicity Jones, film industry, film technology, future of cinema, generative AI, Hollywood, Hollywood studios, intellectual property, Karla Sofía Gascón, labor relations, Larry Ellison, Marvel, Mickey Mouse, Netflix, OpenAI, Oracle, Oscars, Paramount, Particle6, Pixar, Respeecher, SAG-AFTRA, Sora, Star Wars, Steamboat Willie, synthetic actors, The Brutalist, Tilly Norwood, voice technology, Walt Disney Company, Xicoia, Zurich Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival Summit

From AI Oscar wins to Disney handing OpenAI its crown jewels film is racing from talent to tech

Maybe This Is The Year Popular Movies Win Oscars Again

January 20, 2023January 24, 2023 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 1917, Academy Awards, Avatar The Way of Water, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, E.T., Gladiator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Top Gun Maverick, Wakanda Forever

Won’t the Academy think of the people who only see one or two movies a year?

Oscars

Is There Any Way to Save the Oscars?

March 22, 2022April 3, 2022 Jake Harris 0 Comments Academy Awards, Amy Schumer, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, Oscars, Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes

Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes aren’t going to bring in the youths

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Each Best Picture Nominee Rated By the Linearity of Its Narrative

January 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1917, Academy Awards, Best Picture, Christopher Nolan, Ford Vs. Ferrari, Greta Gerwig, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Little Women, Marriage Story, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Oscar, Parasite, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Sunset Boulevard, The Irishman, Watchmen

Introducing ‘The Murph Scale’

Black Oscar Snubs–The Egregious History

January 20, 2020 Kyra Jones 1 Comment #OscarsSoWhite, A Raisin In The Sun, Academy Awards, Angela Bassett, Ava DuVernay, Billy Dee Williams, David Oyelwo, Denzel Washington, Diana Ross, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Lady Sings The Blues, Malcolm X, Octavia Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar, Richard Pryor, Ruby Dee, Ryan Coogler, Samuel L. Jackson, Selma, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith

#OscarsSoWhite Through the Decades

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A School of Magic That Does Not Patronize the Viewers

May 4, 2026May 11, 2026 William Schwartz 0

‘Witch Hat Atelier’ represents an evolution for a genre mired in Harry Potter

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The Devil Barely Cares About Prada

May 1, 2026May 11, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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Robots, Soccer, King Arthur and More : 10 Books To Read in May

May 1, 2026May 5, 2026 Art McPhail 0

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Everything That’s Streaming in May 2026

April 30, 2026May 5, 2026 Jake Harris 0

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