Oscar Finger-Pointing: Trade Roughage 02/26/08

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Rick Kissell says we shouldn’t be surprised that Sunday night’s Oscar telecast earned its lowest ratings, um, ever: “A batch of films with mostly grim themes, combined with an awards season that lacked any real momentum thanks to the writers strike, contributed to this year’s alarming 20% falloff.” The people, they just want to laugh! And Hollywood labor wars really get them down!
The Cinema Eye documentary award nominations were announced at Sundance a month ago. The full list of nominees is in Variety today.
The WWE has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to make theatrical and direct-to-DVD releases aimed at teens, starring wrestlers. The goal is, apparently, to crank out PG-13 content that will appeal to WWE’s current, young male fanbase, while at the same time, “establish these guys not to our audience so much but to the other moviegoing audience, so that they cross over.”