Honorable mention goes to:
NY Daily News: Oscar Party Crash(er)
Denver Post: An Oscar collision
Boston Globe (and everybody else): Crashing the Party
mb writes:
What I like about this is that now, perhaps studios with good movies won't be afraid to release them before November, for fear of killing their Oscar chances. If anything, this should be a liberating experience for Hollywood, one that allows quality films to be released the whole year round.That might very well be the case, if only people were willing to pay to see movies the whole year around. Alas, January and September continue to be movie graveyards, and Hollywood execs will probably write this off to luck and not change a damn thing.
I'm more partial to George Lucas' sentiment: ""The market forces that exist today make it unrealistic to spend $200 million on a movie," said Lucas, a near-billionaire from his feverishly franchised outer-space epics. "Those movies can't make their money back anymore. Look at what happened with 'King Kong.'"
Of course, King Kong was mediocre at best, and way too long. But does this years' Oscars, and every year since Gladiator in 2000 signal the death knell for big budget blockbusters?
We'll see.
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